The Washington herald., 1906-11-19

Next Saturday VIII see practically The
last Of football in this section Of the coun-
! try, the annual Army-Navy match in
/ Philadelphia on December being the abb
sOlute finish of the season. The Harvard
/ Yale game will make a fitting close of
the year. and the contest should be one
Of the brightest and best Of 1906. The
Harvard team, trained almost solely with
the Yale game as an objective. and the
other matches considered merely as pre-
liminaTy, has improved in a way to justI-
fy the plans of Head Coach William T.
Reid. ir., and little TO abash those
critics who earlier in the year accused
hin Of lacking the power to assimilate
the spirit OF the rules.
II was said at one time by those who
aspire by writing football to keep the
public informed Of relative strength as
they figure it out that Reid apparently
had not learned enough of the new rules
to teach a football team as well as Walter
Camp. Mr. Reid has demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the Harvard followers.
who are by no means kindly critics. that
he can instruct a team With his back
field in working order, as he planned il
earlier in the season. with Newhau. Lock
wood. Appolonio and Foster in trim. Reid
is in a position now 10 show that his
theories have worked out well.
Formation of Team.
From the start his plans were formed
quickly. and possibly and apparently all
that bothered him was the question of
ends and center He had for the wing
positions Mcdonald, Kennard, Burnham
and Miller. Mcdonald appealed to him
as the right man for one end. but it
took a deal of vamping and revamping
10 set another wing man. With charac-
teristic resOUrcefUlness. Reid went else
where when he found that the men whom
he had named for ends were not Of the
right class. starr. the quarter back last
year, has made a most successful end.
as his work in the game against the Car
Isle Indians testified c0nclUs.vely.
Whether Parker or Fraser, for the cen
ter, was another problem. and 1t appears
that Parker is the choice OF Reid. He
now has team that suits him. and is
likely 10 appeal TO all Harvard men as
one of the best that has spOTted the Grim
son in the past five years.
1t IS not hard now To recall the poor
games that Harvard played The eleven
was scored on consistently by the smaller
teams from the start. The Crimson had
trouble beating Williams. The game with
the West Point team was sort of poor /
Intellectual fumbling contest The victory
there looked and indeed was lucky. The /
-est against Brown, which 20 be sure
was against a good eleven, did not reflect /
much credit upon Reds pr0teges but /
sin there we're flashes. The Sedan game I
showed "a clever Harvard team. defeating /
-he redskins at their own game. Eternal I
vigilance IS the price Of victory In foot 1
ball.
Crimson n Fighting Lot.
The fact that stands out is that the I
Harvard team this year is a fighting I
punch. a lighting Harvard team with 4
pirit is a rarity. Coach Robinson. Of 1
Brown, whose team met both Harvard /
md Yale, is on record with the statement
hat the Harvard eleven has better spirit 4
han Yale That means a lot He SAYS /
hat ne believes that Harvard's heavier 4
'nense Will do great work for the Grim
.on between the 25-yacd lire and the 1
-oa- The Harvard team too. has i'm
'roved in its handling Of the forward
lass and the outside kick. II has in
Burr q better punter than has Yale in
-eeder, or RoOme, or Knox. as far as
distance goes. The team is very steady.
90, and IL it holds the spirit that it has
hOwn thus far il viii make a fine game
f it with Yale.