New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-15
HARVARD SCOUTS AWAKE
See Possibilities and Danger of
YaIe's New Play.
GREAT DEMAND FOR TICKETS
Football Appetite Hard to Sat
lsty, and Thousands Must
Be Disappointed.

ON OF elSht eagle-eycd Harvard CoacheS
saw Yale defeat Princeton on Saturday
and 1t is safe to say that much of the work
at Cambridge this week will be devoted to
0evising defence for the new shift tackle
! play which, aptly enough, has been called
the Minnesota avalanche.
The novel play worked out by DIR. Harry
l.. Williams and brought Fast ny Tom
Shevlin to help Yale when help was needed
proved such a good ground gamer against
Princeton that the scouts from Cambridge
were not slow to realize its possibilities and
its dangers as q piece of football strategy
Speaking of the Harvard team Melville
T.. Webb. jr.. says in The Boston Globe ::
Harvard not only has come out of us
Dartmouth game unscathed, but it has
found its football power true to the test
and the individual players generally keep-
ing to the splendid standard OF play lhSy
have shown in their development TINS ian,
1t is now assured that Harvard can 20
against Yale with it's equipment iii snootn
running order and in position to MAXI
the very most of it's material, its long sea
son of varsity team play and OF the CoI .
tGence which its remarkable RECORD dsain"
its opponents this fall surely should glve,
The Dartmouth game showed that daI
wards claims of versatility this ran are
well founded and that while for the az az
game much of it's open play has been he i{i
in reserve, the team has not only been Wen
grounded in principles of football that are
traditional. bIIt at the same time has de-
veloped a game to make goat deal Oh tue
conditions of the new game.
Last week Captain Wilmington stated az
a mass meeting that Harvard was Keen
to make II successful eSemphllcdtloH VI
the new game this fall. not merely III OF
der TO beat Yale but to score point Tor
the new game. which Harvard in sense
felt responsible in bringing about .,,
OF course, every one knows, or Shoulu
know. that Harvard's part in engineering
football legislation last spring was Only
in keeping the forward pass in the game,
but under conditions which took advantage
of the previously planned twenty yard zone
provided TO prevent the very short variety
of onside kicks that were used in 1901 ana
whicn the dqe fd 5dT hi1Tv le''
Haughton fathered the forward pass
idea and conceived the plan to make the
twenty-yard zone one IN Wtlcn tne :, Te ,cfav
ers, except during running plays: should
not body check or in any way 1nterrere
with one another eXceDt in bona hde at
tempt to get st the ball
Bill Randall Dartmouth's head coach,
will have cheer leaders noted for their
delving in realms supernatural ana rooIeI9
with paladnOic tendencies next year lie
laws Dartmouth's defeat by Harvard at the
door of the physic cheer. Randall SAID
after the game on Saturday
THE physfc cheer beat our fellows
Haughton did it. His call for all good
Harvard men to vibrate at the same mo-
ment put our fellows out of business They
fImhled and tumbled and jumbled and
never knew what was doing IL A coupe
of years ago Tad Jones. OF faie got ms
men TO pray for victory, but this physlc
thing is too much for me. Next SATURDAY
will come the real test of the vibration
wave and the phySic "rah ran Wnen Itdr-
ward and Yale battle to a finish at New
Haven"
College football has lost none of its re-
markable popularity. II matters not what
the rules are or how the game is played
The thousands who packed and damned the
towering stands at Princeton and Cam
bridge on Saturday furnished a striking
tribute to a sport which has weatleered so
many storms in the last few years. The
thousands who are ClamOring for the pre-
cious tickets to see Yale and Harvard crash
at New Haven on Saturday, only to find no
avenue open and price big enough. is
another bit of evidence which cannot be
controversial
It would be interesting to know just how
many men and women would go to New
Haven on Saturday II stadium could be
built big enough to supply the full demand
for tickets. Judging by the applications
which have been refused. and remembering
that these applications are limited to the
it Is safe to assume that one
hundred and fifty thousand persons, in
stead of thirty-fiye thousand. would view
the mimic battle. Truly there is no satisfy
ing the football appetite.
Another Fitzpatrick is headed toward Yale.
and he gives promise of making football
history for the Blue as his namesake.
Johnny Fitzpatrick, has done. The kilpat-
rick in question has Just been elected cap
tain of the Philips Exeter Academy eleven
for next season, and il may be two or
three years before he can a Blue jer-
Sey. BY that time, however. he is likely
to he a giant, as he now stands feet 212
inches tall and weighs one hundred and
ninety pounds. He plays tackle and, in
spite of his size. is fast and aggressive.
Yale will not have to wait, however. for
plenty of good material. Ten members Of
the Andover eleven. who defeated Exeter
so badly and who lost only one game this
year. when the Yale Cubs won by score
of 6 to O. bound for New Haven.
FLAG OFFICERS NOMINATED
G. Ledyard Blair for Commodore