New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
GRIDlRON MEN GRILL
HOT WORK IN PRACTICE.
Candidates Getting Into Condition
for Long Fail Campaign.

rs nrettv hot weather to think about football.
but the men who think about football in August
are the ones who stand on the side lines in Novem-
Der and see the teams they have coached smash
their wav to victories over the elevens that waited
for the crisper days OF September-and that's the
excuse. There all sorts Of activity this year
among football strategists, even at this early
date and in a hundred summer resorts perspiring
colIegians are practising stunts with the pisskin'
getting ready for the campaign that starts next
month.
Harvard won a long delayed championship last
fall by beating Yale by the narrowest OF margins
in the final game. and the Crimson having retained
Percy Haughton coach. is going to waste no
effort 10 turn out another winning team Captain
Hamilton Fish, r.. and his candidates feel that II
is very much up them TO keep the Crimson from
slipping back that start on the upward cilHio
has been made after seven lonG years OF defeat
AZ the hands of Yale and Haughton and Fish have
sent out cal for candidates 10 report at cam
bridge on Monday September b. for early practiee-
Everything is to be made pleasant for the men in
me time before college opens and. while there will
be no formal training table for several weeks
board will be furnished at the Harvard club
Harvard men have not been idle all summer On
the other hand. the men. under the general super
vision Of Captain Fish and Haushton. have been
getting themselves into condition They Will turn
IN al Cambridge hard and III, ready 10 jump into
work and one OF the greatest difficulties Harvard
coaches have met in the past. that OF hnding
squad Of stogy and heavy men. is likely to be ao-
sent Haughton viii have a lot Of youngsters who
know his methods and with the excellent ma
teraI contributed by last years freshman class he
should turn out a good team Harvard freshman
teams are uniformly good. and last years was no
exception.
Vale is lust as busy The formal call for candI-
dates requires the men to report week later than
the Crimson. on September 20. but early practice
has begun in a way. The backs have all received
footballs at their homes and wherever two OF
them are together passing is being practised
Kicking is also being studied by those who have
any idea that they develop into Coys or De
wits and hardening work in general is being in
dulged In.
Yale is keen to wipe out the memory OF the
Harvard victory Yale Field last year by CIV
Ems, The Crimson a sound beating In the Cam
brjdre stadium this time. The Harvard authori-
ties are wild TO win big game In the great am
phltheatre, for the field. which was christened
with a crushing defeat at the hands Of Dartmouth,
has vet To see a victory over Yale. The last
time Harvard won a game from Yale before last
year was I'm 1901. when Campbells great eleven
heat Charley Goud's team by score Of p to o.
That was on Soldiers Field however
Yale has lost few good men from last years
team and with better luck than was experienced
last wear the Blue is likely to turn the tables on
Harvard The coaches at New Haven are far from
anticipating an easy task, however.
Down at Princeton the Tiger is growing in his
lair. and Captain Slegling and his men are filled
with grim determination and n burning desire to
avenge the bitter defeats Princeton has suffered
since 1903 Princeton had the worst season of its
recent football history last year. and the run of
Yale victories broken since 1893 only by a tie
game in 1856 is the longest since the two colleges
have been meeting the gridiron-
Billy Roper Princetcn's head coach since 1906. IS
no longer in charge down there, business having
required so much of his time that he had to give
up some of his football work. Parke Davis. the
famous end Is at the head of coaching trium-
vrate. with Phil King and Roper as its other mem
bers. There is going TO he a good deal Of work
down at Princeton. and, while victory in the first
year of the system may be too much to ex-
pect the adherents of old Nassau are hoping that
the tale of wasted opportunities that has burdened
the last three years may not be repeated.
one of the chief sources OF woe at Princeton
last year the neglect of the freshman team
There splendid material among the first year
men, but II was practically ignored all season. and
the Tigers scarcely know what there is to hone for
in the sophomore class The cubs will receive bet