New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-11
FOOTBALL PLANS.
Outlook at NeU-HaUeR Is Not Good
for Strong Team.
rBv Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


New Haven Conn. Sept. 10-The coming
week will sec the opening of the football season
at Yale, which this year it later than at either
Princeton or Columbia. Several of the Yale foot
ball coaches have arrived to look over the
ground and get acquainted with the Yale train
er. John Mack of Mercersburg Academy, but
the majority of the old players and coaches will
not come back until the last of next week.
The first day of practice for the 1905 Yale
eleven viii be September is. Yale will play the
first game of the season on September 80, two
days after the fall term of the university opens.
Captain Thomas Shevlin will not come on
from Minnea polls until next week. will
Head Coach Bloomer, who will this year take
care of the forwards having played his time out
in the Yale line at tackle Bloomer will have
the line, and Owsley. last years fast halfback.
the back field, while Walter Camp WILL as usual,
superntend the development of the eleven.
aided this season by Frank S. Butterworth, the
old Yale back, and Frank A Hnkey, the ia
nous end.
Yale will this year start out with poor chance
to duplicate the remarkably strong teams Of
the last four seasons. Most of the players who
had been developed for the 1904 and 1903
eevens have this year left college. and Captain
Shevlin will begin work a badly broken
squad. He will have to build up almost an en-
tirely new line, and fill the places Of some of
the best football players Yale ever had. II will
be hard season for Yale this year.
Last November Yale developed one of the
fastest teams known in Yale football history.
Captain HOgan's team defeated Harvard and
Princeton, both by the score of II to O. The Yale
eleven was made up of Shevlin, left end: Bloom
eT. left tackle; Kinney. left guard: Roraback
centre; Trip, right guard; Hogan, right tackle;
Neal. right end; Rockwell. quarterback; Hoyt
Leavenworth and Morse. halfbacks; Hoyt, Ows
ley and Finn, fullbacks
Of these players Yale will lose Roraback
centre: Kinney, guard; Bloomer and Hogan,
tackles; Rockwell, quarterback; Owsley and
Leavenworth, backs. This means that Captain
ShevIn will have to develop new centre. a
guard, two tackles an end, a quarterback and
at least one back
It will be the hardest propos ion Yale has
recently undertaken in a football season 1t will
be especially hard because Harvard is expected
to have strong eleven, made up of most of the
men who We're defeated by Yale last year.
Shevlin will play left end again. in all prob
ability, unless he is too heavy this fall and de-
cides to go in at tackle, where he made his
preparatory school reputation. For the right
end there will be Gates, the track Splinter and
hurdler. old end; Stuart. who, fresh
man, last year made an excellent showing on
the varsity and possibly Neal who may return.
The two tackle positions will be difficult to
fill. a former Wesleyan tackle and captain Will
be the strongest candidate for one of the tackle
positions, and the other will be open to new
corners It will be impossible. probably, to get
two such AI-American tackles together at Yale
this season as Hogan and Boomer We're last
year.
Yale expected to land thompson, the giant
Exeter guard, for guard position, this fall
Trip coming back to play the other guard. but
Thompson goes to Cornell. Flanders, who has
been coming as guard or tackle for two
seasons, may be developed into one Of these
positions this season
Behind the line Yale will not lose so heavily
as among the forwards. Rockwells loss at
quarterback will be keenly felt, but two good
players are in line for his place in Hutchinson
and Veeder. The former is a fast player and
field captain, while Veeder Is especially good at
punting. The race between these two men for
the position will assure Yale of one first class
quarter.
At half back Yale will again have s. F. B.
Morse and Eoyt among the old players, and at
fuIlback Finn. Leavenworth, who made
brilliant late season record last year. will coach
at Alabama University instead of returning TO
play at Yale and his loss will be serious one
In general. Yale will lose heavily from the list
of star players, who made the last two Yale
eIevens famous. The Yale line will be badly
crippled by the graduation Of star men, While
behind the line most of the old stars return
There is no certainty that first class men will
come from the preparatory schools to Yale this
year and the material to be brought in from
that source will not be known until the college
year opens.