The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-26
YALE'S FOOTBALL SEASON.
The Blue to Have Almost an En-
tirely New Team.
Candidates for the Eleven to Assem-
BILE on September 2S-ThOse Ambt-
tious to Win Places in the Line
Chadwick to PIny HaIfbnck Again.

Chadwick to Play HaIfbnck Again
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug. 25.-A
month from today the Yale football sea
| son of 1901 will be unG.r way. Capt
| Charles Gould sent out his orders for the
, first round up of candidates this week,
and these men will meet at Yale Field on
the afternoon of September ~ IL is pos
sible that the men will come several days
previous to this. but Captain Gould has
not yet decided the exact date when
practice will begin.
With Princeton bending every energy
this year to beat Yale at the annual
game, to be played at Yale Field the lat
ter part of November, and Harvard s
eagerness to retrieve the defeat of last
fall at the hands of the Eli players. Yale
has n programme before her that Will
require her best efforts to uphold her
championship. The season starts out
with iale on the defensive.
How far Yale can work up n football
team that win compare with last year S
eleven 1t is yet too early to say. One
thing is evident at the outset, however,
and that is that Yale will not be as
strong as she was in 1900. 1t was ex-
pected that this season would see a much
weaker team WEARING the blue The weak
ness, however, viii be only comparative
as there is the belief at Yale that Cap
tain Gouid's team will again carry off the
gridiron honors. ~
The problem last year was one of Sc
lection and elimination. so great was the
number of candidates of a high average
of excellence. This year it will be ques-
ton, to some extent, of finding men to
III YIa In
Yale has less advantage than Princeton,
who will play nearly the same lineup as
last year. or Harvard who will not lose
such large proportion of her best play
ers. Last fall 1t was a question or nil-
ing the end positions and the back field.
This year 1t will be in the line and at
quarter that Yale will be weak. With
Mike" Murphy managing the selection.
however, and Gordon Brown coaching,
Yale men do not expect to see the team
strikingly weak at any point
Yale suffers heavy losses by graduation
or the twelve men who carried off the
honors on every field on which the blue
played last season, ten leave college
Yale's great eleven was made up of
Gould, left end; Bloomer, left tackle;
Brown, left guard; Olcott, centre; Shell
don, right guard; Stiilman, right tackle;
Coy, right end; Wear and Fincke, quar-
terbacks; Fincke and Sharpe, left half
backs; Chadwick, right halfback, and
Perry Hale, fullback. OF these men
Bloomer has been dropped and has been
unable to resume his place in college.
Hale has withdrawn from the post-grad-
uate school, Sharpe has disqualified him
self by coaching preparatory school
teams. end Brown, Olcott, Stillman, Coy,
wear, and Fincke have been graduated
The only men left from last years team
who played in the big games, and so
could be considered members of the team.
are Captain Gould, left end; Sheldon,
right guard, and Chadwick, right half.
Ihere is good chance, however. that
there will be more than enough first class
players to go around. Captain Gould will
keep his old place at left end, and the
ether end will go to Rafferty,, whose work
was OF phenomenal order last year.
and who was pronounced then to be a
coming end rush. Rafferty, NAV prove
an ADLER end than Coy was last wear.
The two tackle positions will be left open.
Jut several iirst class men will try for
Ihem Hamiin fought Bloomer for left |
tackle up to the last game last wear
"hen the latter was selected, mostIv for |
MS piunging abilities. In the Princeton |
game game bioomsr and Hale did most of |
I ale ground gaining through the line |
f1amiln will take one tackle, and either |
'. <! mouth or Johnson. of the crew the |
other, unless better men appear. Wey- |
mouth was captain of the freshman crew
asst spring and is a veteran football play- |
II. having played tackle on Buckneu Col |
eye teams for two years johnson is |
me OF the strongest men in college. and |
Is substitute on the varsity, is able to |
'ut up a strong line game.
AT guard the heaviest loss comes 70 the
cam IN the retirement of Gordon Brown,
or three years guard. and captain last
ear. There is no first-class material to
axe mis- place, unless O'Neill. of last
ears freshman team, or Gross, proves
"a, AT right guard Dick Sheldon
VII play again. Centre will lose Olcott
sturdy player, though never of remark
tpie apiiity. Last year substitute centre |
iolt, VIII probably make the place this
ear. Holt was regarded last wear nv |
many even better than OIcott, and If
lie plays the place is assured to him this
ear ~
1t is behind the line this fall that Yale
las the best assortment of material
While the losses here are many also. the
eW men on hand are of unusual strength
nd ability. Who will make quarter is
problem. Wear took care of the snap
ack most of last season. and was re-
moved before the big games simply be
ause he had acquired bad habit of
nufhng the catch from punt. He was
tpidCtu Dy + llCke. 1hey both have now |
eft college. Winslow seems to be a good
lan for quarter. but he is too big for the |
lace, and would make a better man
urther down the field. Hart is a good |
uarter but lacks generalship qualities |
fhile of the other men De Saulles and |
iorris are neither of them big enough
h0uGh both are good players. Quarter
ill remain open until several weeks after |
he season begins.
For half backs, Chadwick returns to
axe one of the positions. For the other |
here are several possibilities. Wilhelm |
layed a fast game last year. as did |
aston. Ward and Wander Poel. a new |
ian who will Join the half backs will |
e Cornelius Daily, who enters this fall |
nd who was one of SanfOrd's star Co
imbia kickers last year while at Bran
ord. Winslow viii also be considered
t full back there is no expectation that |
nyone VIII be found who will eclipse
erry Hale who was by all odds the |
est full back Yale had since the
avs of Butterworth. Hyde, of last year. |
ill try for this position. as will VIII |
elni while a new man appears in Wey- |
louth, who may either be tried at tackle
r full back.
This forecast of Yale's 1901 team does |
OF show any marked falling off in the
sterial for a champion team; nor do
ale men who know the ground think
nat there will be any falling off. II
ordon Brown decides to coach the |
even 1t should be as good as any other