New-York tribune., 1906-10-01
YALE COACHES GLOOMY.
Football Squad Is Small and HeaUy
Men Are Scarce.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.

New Haven, Sept. SO.-Captain Morse and Rock.
we'll head coach of the Yale eleven, discouraged
at the small squad they have been able TO muster
and at the lack of heavy Rockwell says tina,
the candidates for the centre positions the
lightest in his five years of experience here
Morse last week issued a call for candidates. and
almost no new players reported. Not enough men
have Joined the squad to form four elevens. while
at Harvard nearly hundred enrolled THE
Yale Daily News" editorially attributes the few
candidates TO lack of interest in the game played
Rofkwe % Spght denied the report that seege.
Would probably be none til October Is
Jack Owsley. head coach last season, arrived to-
ers;, Rockwell has decided to perfect the punting
early this year, and this week Lydg Hoyt Frank
Butterworth and Owsley will all coach this depart
TO get brand new ideas for Yale's opening game
coaches and Captain Morse went to the opening
they had conference tonight. and viii put the
ideas they secured into execution.
vania play. impressed with the speed of the
team. He had long conference with Rill Reid.
York, after the meeting of the rules committee.
George Goss, guard three years ago. will arrive
Tomorrow and coach the guards this week.
Yale football coaches have formulated definite
Viii be vispIe the the pnbo before well
MSovember & and much Of It Will be seen for the first
As far as the minor games of October con-
cerned it is likely that Yale will play great deal
Yale expects that the punging attack will be suf-
cent to gain ten yards in three downs and thereby
hold the ball most of the time. Yale will an
occasional double and forward pass but the effec-
tive plays which the Yale coaches have figured
before the West Point game according to present
expectations.
The scrimmaging of the five days since the first
lne-up has shown, in general way however. how
the new rules are working out on the Yale grid
iron. FORWARD passes have been the rule. and 1t
cannot be said that they have been successful
enough to encourage the coaches IN planning to use
player intended is felt On several occasions the
field has followed.
This establishes the fact THAI the forward pass
VIII be used with caution, at least in the early
games The play will be frequently In prac
tce for it is felt that only by steady daily drill
ing Will the team be able to perfect it.
Double passes and short passes on the run. have
peen rarely tried To faniliarize the players with
passing, novel wrinkle has been introduced into
the preliminary practice. The squad is separated
into two or three circles. with fifteen In q
group about a dozen yards apart. The players in
each circle are kept moving around while two
three footballs are passed from to another.
The short kick has been tried freely In the Yale
the year. Not much attention has been given
to 1t, however, as 10 the long forward pass.
There Is no longer room for doubt that tho game
has been opened If this is conceded to have
been the main object of the changes in rules they
have been successful.
It Is not felt Yale that the game will be
less dangerous than the old. Walter Camp, the
play is less harmful than open tackng. His
argument IS that the play is slow in the massing
while players are moving quickly in the runs in the
open.