Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-13
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ial is just now wrestling with books
and not the leather oval. There is no
longer any watehful scanning of the
entering class to see what new ma
terial 1t produces-not so far as the
immediate varsity situation is con-
cerned. Material is now a more fix
ed quantity. Outside of men not re-
turning to college and faculty inter-
vention, the coaches have pretty ac-
curate knowledge of just what they
will have to depend on in the way of
material. That may or may not be
satisfactory, depending whether the
material at hand is promising or the
reverse. Cornell is one of the best
fixed of the colleges in having a big
supply of experienced men to start
with, while it looks as if Pennsyl-
vania will have team of evenly-dis-
tributed strength when all the candi-
dates are herded into the fold. There
- - AAAANis aiA oS VI IuAOhI at L dlC Ou
the whole, but there are two or three
positions which recent developments
have shown are by no means sure of
being filled satisfactorily. However,
they have mastery coaching system
at New Haven and a custom of set
ting about at once to fortify against
possible weak spots
When you get right up against the
coaches at Princeton they do not talk
in a very hopeful strain over this
years outlook, but there is a deep de-
preston over the outlook. There is
respectable amount of raw material
to be whipped into shape at Nassau,
but if anybody can whip it Coach
Roper can. If this big chap. Mac
Faden from Exeter, ineligible last
year because he was a freshman, de-
Velops all right he is quite likely to
make stronger man in the five mid
die line positions than anybody
Princeton had last year except Jim
Cooney. If he lines up against
Thompson of Cornell there ought to
be scrap between the guards at
Ithaca worth going to see. The same
is true if he stacks up against Goebel
of Yale, who, experts think, has in
him the making of guard of the
Gordon Brown class. The Princeton
backfield, barring Jim Mccormack,
will probably be light, and it surely
will be fast-TibbOtt, Harlan, Cass,
Dillon and Pfeiffer-a group of
speedy men. There are more veter-
ans, in the Princeton backfield than
at Yale, but the Ellis have some good
ones, and while the Yale backfield
may be surpassed in actual speed,
there will be a departure from the
conditions that generally prevail if
they do not have it on rivals in ver-
satility and head work.
The greatest experiment of all is at
Harvard, where Joshua Crane is the
head coach. Crane has coached
freshmen teams with success and is
said to be capable handler of men.
1t will not do to take him lightly, and
the observation that Harvard will be
coached this year from the back of a
polo pony may not be warranted.
The Brown university eleven is not
to be overlooked in sizing up elevens
of potential strength. There is an
exceptionally big, brawny and active
| lot of material at Providence. One
of the newcomers is Racquet, ineligi-
Bile last year, who stands feet 4
| inches. and there are enough strap
ping big fellows to bring the five
center of the line positions up to the
average of close to 200 pounds Den.
ME and Pryor are pair of first-clasS
| ends; Schwartz is rafting gool
quarterback, and Johnny Mayhem is
| the best lodging halfback in the east
This aggregation will take some beat.
ing.