New-York tribune., 1909-10-04
ON COLLEGE GRIDlR0NS
SEASON IN FULL SIZING.
Big Teams Already Gire Indications
of Developing Great Strength. :

With the football season under way GOOD many
interesting things already emerging from the
undgested mass of information that comes from
the various college gTidirOns. Saturdays games
were of little import Shce in themselves. but they
developed number n facts which are of vital IN
terest to the coaches bf the major teams and which
possess, therefore, interest for followers of the
sport well. Great strength is indicated at Yale,
Harvard Princeton and Pennsylvania. and the
promise of unusually interesting season. held out
long before II began, is in excellent way 20 De
fulfilled.
Reserving Harvard for further discussion, Yale
and Princeton may claim attention first. Yale met
a we'll coached team in Syracuse. team coached'
moreover by a man who knows all there is TO know
about Yale football in general and of his brother
coaching methods in particular That the team
which was coached by Howard Jones. therefore,
able to administer decisive defeat 70 SYRIA
cuse, coached by Tad Jones, must be regarded as
encouraging by Yale supporters There IS more rea-
than the general result for encouragement too
There was marked Improvement in the play Of sew
era men from whom such improvement was reason
ably to be expected, and In the work OF Lliey'
Haines, Howe, last years freshman quarterback,
and Vaughn, there is plenty to please those who
want TO see the Blue wipe out the memory OF last
years defeat at the hands of Harvard. and in the
games against Holy Cross and Springfield Training
School this the will get good practice for
the stiff and early game with West Point week
from Saturday.
Princeton showed against stevens encourag-
ing ability to concentrate Il powerful attack and
to drive plays with telling effect against weak
spots in opposing line. The fact that the
beaten team was able to twice, although
hOpeessly outcassed. should cause concern TO the
friends of old Nassau however. There is no fiuke
about score by a weaker team which has blocked
a kick II is simply a seizing of an opportunity
afforded by poor football, and il indicates funda-
mental weakness that should speedily be overcome
There must have been an awful hole in the left
side OF the Princeton line when Pangburn went
through. and that there bespeaks probably
a failure to have developed a system OF guarding
the punter Perhaps this is excusable at this
stage of the season. but it is weakness none the
less that should be eradicated at once.
Harvard sent a powerful team in to defeat Bow
doin by a substantial score. and the power was
well applied. Certainly there is material at Cam
bridge for team fully as good as the fine ma
chino of 1905 and with the added confidence OF
victory. which Is pervasive at Cambridge. and
pervasiva in q way that does not suggest a dam
gerous Overconddence in the sleast. Haughton
should turn out splendid eleven The Harvard
schedule is well devised for the development Of
the team. and the coaches ought 10 have their
work pretty well outlined for them before the
crucial tests come along. The two games already
played have been entirely satisfactory and the
work of the has been uniformly good
Looking al the Harvard eleven in practice shows
the quality of the material to be far above the
average This is true Of the whole squad. for
there has been a great improvement in some Of the
veterans, while the highly promis-
ing Corbett. for instance, is a much better half
back than no was year ago. He is faster.
steadier a better punter and a more dependable
man Leslie and P. Smith. who likely 70 be
the other backs, also good men, and in OFla
herty a quarterback who promises to be the best
man in that all important position seen at Cam
bridge since the days Of Charley DAILY and Carl
Marshall has been developed He is wonder for
speed splendid manipulation OF the forward pass.
which IS going TO he used a lot by Harvard this
year. and a keen player with an excellent head.
The line from end to end, is excellent one and
there are lot of good substitutes. Houston, at
left end takes the long forward pass in brilliant
fashion and Gil Browne at the other end. is
better man than he ever before. With Nc
KAY and Captain Fish at tackle and West and
Fisher, last years star freshman. at guard. the
centre Of the line is we'll looked after.
PENNSYLVANIA has not furnished much proof Of
power as yet. although the Dickinson game must
be regarded as encouraging. The Quakers like
Cornell have still to give proof Of their real
strength, but there little doubt OF the ability
of either team furnish such proof. Pennsyl-
vania had a good team last year. While Cornell
had only ordinary eleven. There has been no
change OF Importance in the coaching system Of
are on hand to help in the instruction. and the
addition Of Harvard to the schedule by way OF re-
placing the lamented Princeton game seems to
have given fresh impetus TO the game.
HERBERT.