Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-05
ON THE GRIDTR0N
Strenuous Work Being Done By the
College Coaches.

Strenuous Work Being Done By the
College Coaches.
New Haven, Nov 5.-Since the game
with West Point an unusual number
of coaches have turned up here, sew
era1 of whom had not been to the Yale
field before this year. Malcolm Nc
Bride, captain of the 1899 team, came
on from Cleveland especially to assist
in preparing the men for the Princeton
and Harvard games. Then there are
Gordon Brown, who was here last
week, Bill Bull, the famous fullback,
Fred Murphy, the '96 captain, PA"
Cofbin, ''Parson' Cutten, Brink
Thorne, the '95 captain, and Charles
Chadwick, the former guard.
1t was thought that there might be
some changes made in the varsity as
only important change, however, has
been the substitution of Hamlin for
Goss. He made a good showing, and
it will not be surprising if the coaches
should find a place for him in the
varsity line this week.
Announcement has been made by
the Yale football association that
number of graduates have agreed to
establish fund to provide cups for
interclass football contests. The plan
is to have the teams formed at once
and to have them train for the series
of games which will begin after the
Yale-Harvard contest, which marks
the end of the varsity football season.
Princeton, N. J., Nov 5.-SeVeral
/ Irc,e
the Columbia and Cornell games, and
the coaches are determined to profit
by them. The first is that Princeton
has great ability in punting, drop kick
ing and place kicking. In the Yale
game last year the coaches thought
they could depend upon their punting
to keep the Tiger line from being
crossed in the first half, at least. That
game was played with disastrous eff
feet on the Tigers hopes for victory.
| Now the problem is how to use this
kicking to advantage. A wise min
Cling of punts with line rushes and end
runs is felt to be the game they ought
to play, and while the drop kicking
was tried little last year, the coaches
haev taken up this phase Of play with
renewed energy and every spare mo-
ment is given to Dewitt and Vetterlein
for practice. The Cornell game show
ed what was the result.
Cambridge, Mass, Nov 5.-Har-
Yards team is being developed along
safe lines, and every possible safe
guard against entertaining Els being
used. The Monday work is light, the
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Wednesday comes a hard practice
game with the second eleven. on
Thursday the work is eased up again,
and on Friday pushed own still an
fther notch. -
Jones and Bowditch, the two ends,
are still indisposed, but both will be
out in time to get back into good play
ing condition by the time the Quakers
come here next Saturday afternoon.
something new in the way of break
ing through on punts has been tried
by the varsity eleven, and it proved
quite successful. Just what the stunt
| was is known only by the chosen few
who were admitted behind the high
board fence that SURROUNDS the Har-
ward gridiron. It was given out, how
ever, that the varsity eleven got
through to block three out of five
punts tried by the second eleven.
/ Columbia has been shifting her line
about in practice in preparation for
the contest with Brown on Saturday.
Duden has been taken from the center
and tried at tackle, while Tomlinson
has been placed at center instead of
his old position at guard Brown has
i been shifted to left guard and Dolin
to right guard. Whether these changes
will be permanent is not known. 1t
is expected that with full weeks rest
/ Weekes, Thorpe and Smith will be in
shape for the contest on Saturday, and
therefore Columbia is looking for her
Il eleven to give the Providence boys a
hot argument for supremacy.
Philadelphia, Pa, Nov 5.-The Penn
4 sylvania varsity team is still suffer
i ing from the bruises of the Columbia
game. But, even allowing for this,
there has been an unusual listlessness
about their work, and there is wide
spread fear that the team may begin
to think it is good Not a person at
Franklin field who follows football
or knows anything about the game
imagines for an instant that PennsyI-
I Vania can defeat Harvard. But what
coaches and advisers alike hope and
work for is to have the eleven play q
i splendid game and, even though beat
\ en-, keep the score within respectable
bounds.