The Washington herald., 1907-11-19
PICKS YALE TO WIN
Harvard Bulletin ArraignS
Coaches and Conditions.
CRIMSON MATERIAL MEDIOCRE
Promising Athletes from Exeter ns
Wen AndOver Are Passing Up
Cambridge and Are Going to New
Haven, Leaving Harvard TO De-
veIOp Players for Varsity Eleven.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 1S.-An article
on Harvard football which appeared in
the current number Of the Harvard Bulle-
tin. the official organ Of the Alumni Asso-
citation, has aroused a great deal of dis
.cussion among the undergraduates. II
severely arraigns the coaching system in
vogue at Harvard this fall. and proph-
estes that Yale will win the hnal contest
OF the season. The article says:
This is the last number Of the Bulletin
which will get to some Of its subscribers
before the Yale football game Il would
be a pleasant thing 10 say that the
chances OF defeating Yale were good. and
the policy of some would be 10 say so
whatever the facts were. but the truth is
that the outlook is most discoura ging. Be
fore the Brown game it became apparent to
many Of the graduate players that the
eleven was not doing well. and one man
who has watched Harvard football for
more than twenty years said in private
after the Springfield Training School
game that Harvard would not win an
other game this year; that prophecy has
not been borne out by events but the VIC
tory over Brown was a very narrow one.
and Carlisle won The Yale coaches are
confident that their eleven can beat Har-
ward II would be a great surprise 20
everybody If Yale does not win.
Yale Much stronger.
a brief consideration of the .circunl-
stances ought to convince any one that
Yale has much the better chance. There
are two important fundamentals which
go TO make up good football eleven
material and coaching In both Of these
Yale has "A decided advantage.
THE football prestige of Yale attracts
10 New Haven almost all the conspicuous
players in the preparatory school elevens
and this tendency is growing. y few years
ago many promising football men from
Exeter. as from Andover. entered Har-
ward. but recently Yale has drawn as
many from Exeter. which always sent
most of It's athletes to Yale.
1T is oftem said. How is fl that Har-
ward. which has larger number of stu
dents than Yale. cannot turn out as good
elevens as Yaleg One answer 20 this
question is 70 be found in the difference
in the men themselves. Harvard 5
classes, although larger than Yale's. are
made up in general Of students OF or
dinary athletic capabilities. Twenty-Five
or thirty men in every entering class
at vale have already won considerable
fame and a good deal of experience as
football players; that is they are the men
who would be picked II a football coach
looked al the athletes in the preparatory
schools and chose the ones he wanted.
Army and Navy Teams.
People often wonder why Il Is that
West Point and Annapolis are able. with
so few students and with so little coach
ing, 10 turn out such excellent elevens:
it is because the young men in the Army
and Navy academies have 10 pass a
physical examination when they enter,
and are TO a degree athletes before they
begin 10 play football. In the same way
it is a great advantage for Yale that so
many well-known and experienced foot
ball players are attracted TO New Haven
by the athletic reputation OF the col
lege.
THE other thing which makes a good
football eleven is effective coaching. For
that. Yale has Walter Camp. who prob
ably knows more about football than