The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21
N The FOOTBALL WORLD.
gEER yOST on MS TEAM AND
FLAWS ~ THE RULES.
mrIcultIrs We Encountered In Building us
lie, cn Yale Ereshm ems FINE Record
-Prlncct on Material for Mex Season
h Practice OF the Rig Teams Yesterday.

-PrlucctO ON Material Tor NeAt season
Practice OF the Rig Teams Yesterday.
naoIuirs experienced this season by
Nerr Nost, the Michigan coach. we're a short
4 .chedulp no preliminary training and no
,,siping table. Asked how his present team
eomAnred with his star aggregation OF 1901.
yoet took q piece Of paper and made the
tolowing eloquent figures: "5JO-72." the
farmer being the total points scored by the
lsi team. the latter the 1909 teams total.
The 1901 team, he said. had the same players
| sgseason. the 1908 team hardly ever had the
.sme pavcrs in the SINE positions.
aIast ~ turday. said Yost. "Loell pla yed
and IN \ game for the first time, and Eyke
us in his first game as a tackle, wilson
..s pyt on the varsity for the first time a
week qgo and never played In a scrub game
ar ANYTHING. hammond. at end. had been
ant only tVo weeks. Newton had never so
ru,h as scrimntaged at tackle in his life.
Cement. the centre. had played in only three
GANGS there. Graham. Gsrrels and Ham
,ond vcre tho only members of the team
that had pA yed in a big game before.
with the old team IL wouldn't have mat
tired whether they had five. ten or fifteen
urds to 60 in three downs. In the Pennsyl-
mia game six of the attempts which Gsrrels
,ude {, circle the ends were intended TO be
brwsri passes, but the assisting players
tse not where they were expected to be.
and tho vases could not he made. | see
thst Yale gets credit for making the longest
forVari pass used this sea son, but YOU would
have seen longer ones in Philadelphia had
The man who was to have taken the pass
done what was expected OF him. Garrels
ear throw a ball fifty yards and throw it
accurately, and with the same spiral motion
thai p plnter impa rts TO the ball.
-Pornsylvania sprang only one play against
rs that the team had not been told to watch
out Tor. cant. Curtis of our team never
VS. ont Of a game before this one in his foot
ball career. II was my intention TO use
him a. a defensive quarter against Penn
~slyania. and that would rave plugged up
the Weaknesses in the line some. The best
back that ever lived can't gain any ground
L his line does not stand up wen enough for
him TO reach the line.
Concerning the running OF a man from
his position in the line. which lost declares
Is illegal under the new rules, the Goa Oh SAYS
be- called tina, very play OF so lar "a his own
team was concerned. Tor The very reason
officials about u before the game last Satur-
day aDd that they agreed with hin that the
rlies a. they are now Norded prohiblt the
Tor that Interpretation for a minute IosJ
showed the rule to John {. Bet OF the rules
COMMITTEES and Bell replied that the COM
llllIee never llHlutu ludl a line LllD COllu
not carry the bali from his position. II cans
holp ha,. said Iost. there are the rules.
Rule 10, Section &. OF the 1905 code reads:
4 player being orslde Is put onside when the ball
has touched an opponent. or when one OF his own
SIDE has run in front OF aim. either with the ball
or having been the last player to touch II when
Nost takes the position that had the fore
going been retained in the rules this year 1t
would have been legal for a line nan to run
from in the line. Then he points to the first
sentence OK TlllO III. section b. which rRadSs
a player il put offside II the ball in play has
last been touched by one of his own side be-
hind him Also rule II, section a: A player
beng OF side is put onside only when the ball
has touched an opponent. or when a Kicked
ball touches the ground, in the field of play.
sentence; and under the former sentence he
contends that the man coming from his posi-.
ton in the line is offside because the ball
side"-the auarterback-"behind him"
whatever may. be he technical merits
Of MIR; Yoet's position, MIR. Bell is quite right
that the committee never intended that a line
man could not run with the ball from his
position. Out and above all stands the fact
shSt Shere views so opposite as 70 the meaning
for more explicitness in their wording.
The work OF the Yale freshman eleven this
season is a conspicuous featu re of the, cam
paign. The youngsters accomplished the
rare feat OF going through with a clean string
90 Scored T.d'C 1n' T r SoI SIsTed eiH nth xa mot Oe anS
made a total Of I2s points to opponents none.
They scored at least twice in every game,
Pauis IS to o. Hotchkiss 70 to o. Exeter
q to Q: Princeton freshmen u TO 0 and Har-
yard freshmen Is 70 o. half a dozen or
b studies just before the game with the
Tiger freshmen, but they went on winning
Just the same. The young Els composed
took the Held, and they played not only an
unusually good game, but a strictly modern
game; They utilities all Vie new wrinkles
thsfreshmen would ave been on the varsity
team had they been eligible. Tn best part
OF IL. from a, Yale standpoint, is the good
varsity next season. IL will come in handy
n nlling vacancies caused by graduation.
Forbes. Morse, Roome. Knox. Veeder, Erwin.
Biglow. Brides, Alcott. Paige, T. Jones, IL.
Jones. Burch and Forster will be in college
smother, year. In view OF the, gaps left by
graduation Yale is fortunate to have the good
freshman material material which has shown
points Of the new game, Cooney, Coy, Logan,
Brown, Berry and MOorehead are among the
promising freshmen, though several OF them
will have TO do better in their studies II they
Of the freshman material is that it Is well
distributed over the various positions.
Princeton's losses by graduation affect
The centre Of the line mostly. CoOney and
Herring, the tackles, and Capt. Dillon. guard.
have finished their football and college course.
Ofthe su bstitu les, Rheinstein, guard: Martin,
guard; larson. guard, and Daub, guard. tackle
and la lfback will be graduated next June;
sanard, guard, and Phillips. centre, are, left
next season, Phillips being particularly
promising as q centre. Whaley and Waller
are good substitutes who are left, and
McFadyen of the freshman team will make a
strong bio for a line position. McFayden
vas a star prep school player. One OF the
ends, Hoa Gla nd. will be graduated next
summer, but Princeton has excellent end
material left in Wister, Warden and 0'Brien.
The regular hack field. +. Dillon. Rulon-
intact. Tenney. the sub quarter a ok. lea yes.
but Down, the second sub quarter, remains.
Ihereis a lot Of other good back field material.
Including Tibbot. Coke. Little. Cass. Pfeifer
and Stoever.
NV HAVEN, Nov. 20.-Roome to-day again
gave evidence OF his ability to. play a hard
game in a Ions scTimmage on the second
eleven against the third squad. He made
ns presence felt continually, The second
nnnch got away with the third by scoring
twice and holding the opposing side easy all
The time. The varsity candidates arrived
here early this evening and all seem ht for the
harvard fray on Saturday and now face the
Prospect OF what looks like 0 hard game to-
morrow. At that timethe freshmen are TO take
on the varsity for a regular contest and the
Dig players Will have all they can do to handle
Capt. Coy's bunch OF husky cubs.
Coach Rockwell late to-day announced that
no choice had been made for the full quota Of
one umpire and the head linesman have been
picked. but until the other umDirP tS chosen