New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-27
ON COLLEGE GR|D|RONS
Team Work SubServient to Indi-
ViduaI Play This Year.
TIGERS I'M A ScRlMMAGE
Yale Eleven Gets Home with a
Practice Game for Opening
of Season.

~ Telegraph 10 The Lr1Hlne
Princeton, y. J., Sept. 26.-Princeton had
!ts first opportunity OF seeing the new
football rules tried out to-day, when four
teams took part in the first scrimnage
Of The year. The most striking change
noticed was The uselessness of attempt
ing 10 gain ground constantly BY any
thing hur open PLAYS. IN few instances
Ca7tain Start went through the scrub line
FOR good gains. but IN the big majority OF
cases ali line plays were nipped in the bud
More ground was gained by individual
effort than by team work. and the forward
pass failed more often than 1t succeeded
Pendleton. Sparks. BaIlou and Hart
played well but even so there were no
STEADY marches down the field and only
che touchdown vas made during the after
noon. Sparks made this on the prettiest
play Of the practice. receiving the ball
from BalloU on a delayed pass
After the hard work the men have gone
through in developing the forward pass.
their work in this department was a little
Disappointing. but considering the sultry
weather and the fact that this was the
first serimrnsge. the practice on the whole
was encouraging.
TIE men showed speed ana quickness.
especially in the back field Both Pendle-
TINS the former sprinting around the ends
twice for over twenty-five yards The
ends were the weakest spots on the team
and these conditions promise 10 keep the
coaches busy for awhile al least.
Few penalties were called and none for
diving tackles The varsity was penalized
once for pushing the nan with the bali
during The lire play. The tackling was
good. but especially so by the varsity
r1en. VINO were strong OF the defence
throughout, their goal never being even
threatened
AFTER the first and second teams were
through two more eievens were put
through & short scrimraEe- There was
considerable fUrbling during this prao-
-.ce. watch also was particularly notice
able for the work Of individuals rather
nan Of the team Fsrr. a. quarterback,
PLAYED a beautiful game. and Ranso1ae and
Hughes II the hack field also showed up
vel
TIE 6rst and second teams lined up as
fellows:
FIRST rear-Left end. Brede-1us. left
tackle Ellsworth. left guar6. Wilson; cen
IRE Rluerhenthal: right guard, Mclean,
right tackle Mccormick right e-,o, Brown,
o1Iarre-back BaIlOu, left Es-1 back Peno-e-
lor -tehr half back. Sparks. fuuback. Hart
second tesn.-IlefL enc, y mite le-L Ldcz-e,
STee-s le4T guard v 1nGnIS. centre. IA1-E>
--c-r guard. BisseI, right tackle, Norman
right erd, Dunlop quarterback. Chrt-slls,
le-r taLf hack. SAWYER right nall GaCk-
Bard. fUl!hsck, Merle-sullth-
III -sleg-anh 20 The Tribune
New Haven, SEPT. 8-The hot wave
1~ade il certain to-day that Yale VIII be
forced 10 meet Wesleyan on Wednesday
without having been II q practice game
between the first and second elevens. Ted
cor. ire head coach, planned one for this
morning. but abandoned the hope when he
raw he state Of the weather The practice
% the SQUAD al its training quarters IN
Iakezlile ended this morning with signal
drill
Ralph Eloc-aer ard Burr Chamberlain as
sisted ire reEula 1scoaches ana left for New
York Immediately afterVard-
Ire PLAYERS had luncheon II Lakevllle and
boarded train Coz this city. arriving II
tine FOR dinner. Coy SAID tonight that the
work would be light Tomorrow, ana that
hove Robinson AID Baker. the three
PLAYERS On the hospital list, would be out
CT re game for 2 few days
Jack Owsley. head coach for Tom Shev-
lln's team, reached here tonight He prob
ably vii spend half the tine Till the close
o. TIE season coaching the eleven The
lineup n signal practice was as follows
Left end. Phifbin. EFF tackle. TonIinson;
LETT guard, Fuller. centre, Morris. right
guard Paul. right tackle, Francis and
SculIy; right END Brooks. quarterback.
stroud. left hzlfback Field right halfback.
Captain Daily; fuHback. Reilly