New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-05

Consequently. when the smaller colleges found
themselves being showed under year after year
by larger ones. by such scores as 80 and 20 ana
even 100 to O. they began to look about Tor a
remedy This they obtained from the very IN
stitutions that had for so long administered
to them such mercless drubbings. and the name
OF the remedy is coaches.
Scarcely is there an institution in the country
pretending to the name of college that does not
employ for its football edifcation and enlighten-
nlent coach who has at one time worn a uni
form on the eleven of one Of the big UNIVERSE
ties. where the game nurtured in its infancy
and developed into the comparative maturity
in which we find 1t to-day. Every one of these
coaches is fired with a desire to turn out
good team" one that shall 90 credit both TO him
and his teachers. and he is never so delighted
as when his pupils visit the gridiron Of his alma
mater and give the wea:ers Of his old colors a
run for their money To this end he drills into
his men every particle OF football lore which
he himself has imbibed at the fount Of football
learning and at the same time. endeavors to
add to these fundamental principles OF the sport
whatever new ones are developed in the labora-
tories Occasionally be develops a new one him
self.
1t is no wonder. therefore that the big colleges
are having an increasingly lively time OF it to
keep ahead of their agile and nimble rivals. AS
it is, though they DO keep ahead their heels are
being constantly stepped on. 1t is likely that
the great advantage Of training more candi-
dates draw from Will enable the big colleges
TO maintain indefinitely somewhat higher av-
erage game than the small ones, but the day
when they can look with contempt upon these
less herculean rivals has passed never to return.
On paper Yale has the most reason to be con-
graduated on the showing her team has made.
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mont's team by a score Of 46 to O. and it is q
significant fact that with one exception she
played an entire team Of substitutes in the sec
ond half The Importance of having a fine lot
OF substitutes ready TO fall back on is nov here
better understood than at New-Haven, where
just as much pains and time IRE spent in drill
ing the second string as the first This policy is
tell when injuries viii incapacitate the best
players. but also because under efficient and
painstaking instruction the substitute will not
infrequently develop talent superior TO that of
some other player who had been previously
thought certain Of place the varsity.
The wise coach. too looks beyond the present
season his victories are not only those of to-
day; he has TO reckon also with Tomorrow
Eight touChdLNns in two ffteen-rninute halves
is. III these latter days. an overwhelming score
though the Hghtness Of Verrnonts players
doubtless had much TO do with il. Still the
fact remains that the general play Of Yale's
team was OF a high character save for some
confusion Of signals by the substitutes espe-
On the other hand. bo.h Harvard and Prince
ton made rather melancholy and discouraging
shoWings. Harvsrds. however. was the worse
In the first half she could not score at all and
Maine rushed her line for q total OF thirtv-one
yards while Harvard was gaining TWENTY-FIVE
The Maine line a whole had the better of the
argument throughout the game. and only long
runs by Farvards backs enabled her TO score at
all Marshall, at right guard was an espe-
cially weak point in the Cambridge line but the
whole system Of forward defence has got to be
bfaced up amazingly before it. will stand a
severe test. While PrinCeton's showing was not
such as to fill the hearts Of her partisans with
enthusiastic glee. II better than il looks on
paper she would doubtless have added 10 her
total score had she stuck u rushing tactics in
stead of trying goals from the field
cornell, too has little TO be proud of IN her
hrst game of importance. Most of her gains
were mace nv the backs her line being scarcely
tne equal ana certainly not the superior. of
Rochesters. It is well 10 mark the fact that
west Point seems more than likely 10 maintain
TINS season her hard position in the very
front rank She downed Tufts bv II TO O.
exactly the same score by which Yale won from
that team on Saturday. There is no doubt what
ever that this years West Point-Yale match
VIII De one OF the best OF the season.
None OF the games OF Saturday developed any
thlng worth mention in the way OF strategy
The new rules putting such extensive limit to
mass plays" will very surely bring forth a
Gated plays in the course OF the season
II must OF necessity be so. The coaches
are too anxious to take every possible
trick to neglect the opportunities thus az
forded them, and Il may be taken for granted
that they have for some time been at Work on
new combinations OF the back heid. Weisht ,
and strength among the forwards VIII sun
count. OF course but IL must be for the greatest
part case Of man to man. for the human
thunderbot" formations OF guards ana tachIes
back have been legislated out or pay except
inside the twenty-hve-yard lines.
The fact that no new plays have yet been seen
IS not SURPRISING for he would be foolish