The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-04
YALE LACKS KICKER.

Coaehers Can't Discover n Good PunteI
 in the squad John HnIi Coaches.
 The Yale football coachers are still
 unable to find a good kicker in the
 whole squad of sixty men, and as the
 days wear on the situation becomes all | the more serious. Yesterday afternoon
 fully an hour was spent in trying out ! Vanderpoel, Ward and a few other
 aspirants for the place of full-back, and
 all were found to be lacking. Olcott was not out yesterday, so the greater part of the afternoons preliminary work was devoted to Ward and Van
 derpoel. The former is a good punter in practice, and so is Vanderpoel, for that matter, but both are weak men
 behind the line in games. Ward is about as slow as any of the back field candidates on the field, and, despite the fine coaching he has received for the last week, he seems to be unable to get any speed after the ball is snapped. He also has the bad tendency to tumble the
 ball. and yesterday he was taken out of the game for these two reasons.
 Nuibtl PpCi ID dulthTi NiehAi " "i N' p't hasn't the making of a varsity full back Wilhelmi is light and showed plainly in the game with Amherst that he is not a strong ground gainer. Ol- colt, who has been talked of as a possi- ble full-back, is heavy man and it is thought he would be good man if he had the right handling. But Olcott Is not a strong punter and so far this sea- son his kicks have averaged about thir- ty-five yards
 Billy Bull Is working hard with the men and possibly he can find a man who has all the requirements of a good full-back It was conclusively shown in the Amherst game that the Yale backs are too light and that when they go against strong team they stand no show of plunging through the line for substantial gains. Hart, Chadwick and Wihelmi are good half backs, but when they hit Amherst's sturdy line they stopped What will happen when they meet Columbia, Princeton and Harvard, whose lines will be heavier and better drilled than was Amhersts? Last year Perry Hale saved the Columbia game by banging into the line time after
 
 that with this years backs.
 Some of the students yesterday won dered why Perly Weeks, the crack An- dover player, was not given a trial be- hind the line. He is a powerful man, weighing about 1S0 pounds, and is very fast Weeks made a great reputation at Andover, and everybody who has seen him play believes he would capably fill one of the back field positions. A | heavy back field is necessary these days
 After a great deal of preliminary | work the varsity and scrub were put l through a ten minute half. Glass was | given a rest and Phelps went in in his place. Hart ran between tackle and | end for touchdown after going sixty five yards, and later Chadwick was pushed over the line for another. The i varsity lined up as follows: Left end, 4 Gould; left tackle. Goss; left guard, Murphy; center, Holt; right guard, Phelps; right tackle, Hogan; right end, Swan; quarter, DeSaulles; left half, Hart; right half, Chadwick; full back, Ward and Wilhelmi. The scrub backs were Donahue and Fox. half acks; full-back, and Rockwell, .uarter.
 The other coachers were Stillman, Bull Townshend Ely and Rev. George B. Iutten.