The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-19
BIG SIX ELEVENS
At EARNEST WORK
This Week Sees Coaches and
Men in Hard Practice for
Early Play.
OLD ELI LOOKS THE BEST
ALL ARE CONFIDENT OVER SEA
SONS PROSPECTS.
BY EDWARD R. BUsHNELL.)


collegiate gridiron almost eclipse the
doings of the rest of the eastern world,
! Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penusylva-
mia. Cornell and DartmOuth-wiH have
started its seasons practice in dead
| earnest. After an investigation of con-
ditions at the different universities one
| is impressed with the fact that Yale is
| probably better equipped than any of
: the other teams. This is due to the fact
| that the Ellis have lost hardly any Of
their 1908 veterans, only four having
! graduated. This leaves the Blue with
! an unusually fine nucleus and with the
! excellent coaching which Yale is sure
/ TO get the Ellis are certain to put up a
! tremendous fight to win back the pre-
miership Of the intercollegiate gridirOn.
Just how rich Yale is in veteran ma
/ terial Is best told in a letter to the
| writer from Edward II. Coy, the Yale
/ captain. Among other things, he says:
/ From last years eleven we have ff-
/ teen veterans returning to college, only
/ four having graduated. The returning
1 veterans include GOebel and Andrus, /
guards; Hobbs, Lilley and Brown. |
/ tackles; Logan, Haiues, Fitzpatrick and
| Naedle, ends of great ability. At quar-
/ ter we have three tirst-ClaSs men, all
! Of whom should profit by their expert !
enCe of last year. These are Johnson.
/ Corey and Bingham. The backs include |
Murphy, DAILY, Philbin, Field and my
self. Last years freshman team will
! give US several exceptionally good line |
men in Paul, York Parker, Soree and
Bronson. Vaughn and Savage are ex-
/ ceptiOnal ends. While Merritt and Howe
at quarter should push some Of the reg
ulars. The same is true Of KistIer, Fv-
ans, Brooks, Messenger and several Of /
the other backs"
Coy started to work immediately after
his election to the captaincy. He was
probably actuated in this by TaIes de- /
feat by Harvard a year ago. and his /
! own wish to captain a winning team. /
The first innovation he introduced was
winter practice for the line men. This |
he followed up with an unusually severe
spring practice. Not content with even
this, he caused the distribution of about /
| thirty footballs to. promising candidates
from the 1903 freshman team and the I
returning veterans, and instructed them |
to keep in condition during the summer /
vacation. Consequently it is to be ex- |
pected that Yale viii be unusually well /
trained for her preliminary games.
Howard Jones, one of Yale's most bril- /
liant ends Of a few years ago, is the /
field coach. He trades places with his .
brother, Tad" Jones, who coached at /
Yale last fall while Howard coached F..
Syracuse. This year Syracuse has. Sc
cured "Tad's" services. In addition to /
Jones. Yale will have the advice of |
Walter Camp and every available Yale /
graduate star within radius of several /
hundred miles. It is evident that Yale
is planning big things on the gridiron
this fall, and storm signals will soon be
flying at both Princeton and Harvard.
Harvard Well Cared For.
Spurred on by the success Of the Grim
son year ago, when Yale was humbIed
for the first time in many years. the
Harvard management is full Of conf
denCe, and deserves to be with the splen-
did material it has.
OF the veterans lost, those felt the
most will be Burr, the former captain
and guard, and Quarterback Cutler. It
is true that Burr did not take part in
the game with Yale on account of in
JurieS, but he was one of the best play
ers that the Crimson ever had, and as a |
punter had few equals Cutler at quar-
terback did not show what he could do
until his senior year, but proved himself
to be fiTst-Class man in every. respect.
Harvard's line is practically intact,
with Brown and Crowley on the ends,
Captain Fish and Mckay at tackles and
Dunlap at one guard. The back field
will also have some promising men in
the veterans White, SpragUe, Kennard
and Smith. KennaTd is one Of the best
Of these, especially on account of his
kicking. It will be remembered that it
was Kennard whose field goal. after he
had taken the place of Yer Wiebe, won
the game for Han ward last fail.
The Crimson will get some unusually h
good men from the 1903 freshman team
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trouble. In discussing the football stu
alton at Harvard. the fact should not be
overlooked that the Crimson starts this
season without the fear that its presi-
dent or board Of OveTseeeTs will step in !
and abolish the game. For nearly three !
years President Eliot was more of a
terror to the Harvard players than even
the Yale eleven. But last year the Har-
ward undergraduates settled the per-
manency Of the game for all time at
Cambridge, and DR.. Lowell, the new
president, is in thorough sympathy
with it.
Penn's Difficult Task.
The University Of Pennsylvania foot
ball management has harder task than
usual to turn out a championship elev-
en-. This is due to the number of veter-
ans lost through graduation. The entire
hTst-string bacl1feid, including Keinath
at quarterback, Manner and Means, the |
halfbacks, and Hollenback at fullback,
has graduated. In the line the Quakers
have lost CASTOR and Draper, the star
tackles, and Scarlet, the alI-AmeTican
end. This leaves of the 1908 first string
only four men. They are Marks at CEN
ter, LambertOn at one guard, Pike at the
other and BraddoCk at end. At first
sight this looks like a hopeless situation.
But 1t so happens that last year the
Quakers had a second team which was
almost as good as the first. Crooks is
expected to take Scarlett's place at one
end in satisfactory manner. In the
backfield Captain Miller, whose brilliant
playing was the feature of the Cornell |
game last fall after Keinath was hurt,
is expected to star in this position.
e New men are in charge Of the Quaker
coaching machine. A. L. Smith, the IA
nous fullback Of the 1904 team, is field
coach, while DR.. Al milford is chairman
of the board Of advisory coaches. While
DR.. Carl Williams, the organizer of the
present coaching system, is not officially
connected with the coaching staff, there
seems to be no doubt that he will re-
spond when needed.
Tigers Test New Coaches.
Up at Princeton they think they have