The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-09-23
Ry WALTER CAMP

By WALTER CAMP.
This last week, although warm in the
early part has set the football season
well under way, the veterans timber
/ ing up and the candidates for the new
places passing under the critical eyes OF
/ the coaches and captains Some changes
of plan Will be introduced both in sched-
ule and system of development over last
year. as the coaches and captains now
/ realize. as was impossible when starting
out last year. more nearly what the ca
pacity Of a team is for absorbing plays
under the new rules, and how much work
/ they can stand
/ Yale started out last year with wide ex-
! Fermentation on the new rules, and,
/ catching Wesleyan and Syracuse before
! the Others had realized their possibilities.
! succeeded In running up big scores. Then
/ they steadied down to their plan Of play,
abandoning traditional rushing Cor simple
I moves along the line of forward passing
/ IN order TO discover IL possible lust what
/ the value Of the play might be made
/ They kept this up without intermission
and without deviating much If any from
the regular points Of the play until after
/ the West Point game. From that time on
/ their stress was placed upon fundamental
/ defects and the working out of the on
side kick and particularly the forward
/ pass along two definite lines that had
/ been determined upon by the earlier ex-
/ perimentaiOn. The result was such as
already noted-to bring them into their
important games with greater knowledge
! Of the possibilities Of the forward pass
than possessed by any Of their opponents.
and this was the winning factor in their
| final game with Harvard And last years
/ freshman team at Yale was quite as
/ phenomenal as the varsity. The rlIle
/ barring freshmen from varsity teams
worked to keep all these good men of
1 the varsity last year. and as Yale man
aged To get through without them her
prospects are all the roster for a first
class Tot Of material to draw from this
/ season.
In the last part Of the Princeton and
harvard games Yale showed its possibili-
ties OF running game worked without
either forward pass or onside kiclr
| This season the same policy Will be ntr-
sued AT New Haven. Knox. of last wears
team, acting as field coach. The team
loses heavily in the back field and less
severely in the line. The freshman team
as already noted, however. viii MI I'D
gaps in the line by some men who will
give a good account of themselves.
Veterans on Hand.
The men who in the early days turned
up looking well and fit were. Riglow.
captain. who has put on some rounds.
the two Jones. Tad and Howard, G9c-
/ bel, Of last years freshman team. and
most promising candidate for this wears
| line; Dimes, last years substitute quar-
ter; Paige. last years tackle: Burch
Condor. Beebe. Murphy Wheaton. Holt.
| Philbin. Of last years freshman back
/ field, and Logan. the freshman end he
sides many other promising candidates.
Yale opens with a Wesleyan game. as
she did lase year, and this sequence is
followed likewise by "a game with Svra-
cuse three days later II Syracuse car
Ties over some OF the excellent work thew
were doing at the end Of last season
/ there VIII De 10 such result as was re-
ported last year. In fact. Yale Is likely
1 20 have her hands decidedly full with
/ this contest -Four days later they meet
/ the Springfield Training School. and three
/ days later Holy Cross. both of which
should be fairly good games
/ The principal change in Yale's schedule
/ is, as already noted. the West Point
game BY mutual agreement between the
/ TWO institutions this has been set for "A
much earlier date than last year. when
/ II was seventh on Yale's list This was
/ not to the advantage of either Val, or
1 west Point, as both the institutions had
/ their most important games coming later.
and Ii Is unwise fer them to bring their
/ teams up % an edge and run the risk
! of let-dOWn just before their big games
/ This year. therefore, the West Point
game has been set for October 10
/ Thereafter, Yale plays Williams and then
/ Washington and jefferson before meeting
| Brown on November g. and this game
was very interesting one last year. and
promises 20 be equally so this season.
This is the last chance to see Yale before
+ her two principal contests with Princeton
/ and Harvard, and Brown by that time
/ is well under way for her Dartmouth
/ game, and has played Harvard a week
previous.
/ Pennsylvania was, to use a common ex-
I preston. all over the lot" having ter
/ ribly desperate times during the early
part of last season. and finally being de-
/ teated no less than a 10 by the Indians
after a defeat of to by Swarthmore.
| and tie games with Gettysburg and La
/ fayette. For all this, the Red and Blue
| later rose to the occasion and defeated
/ Michigan i to in what was the princi-
I pal intersectionaI contest of the year
and, finally, fighting desperately. sue
! Ceeded in stalIing off Cornell on Thanks
giving Day.
PENIS squad Strong.
! This year Pennsylvania has the bes,