New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-18
FOOTBALL TO THE FORE
Harvard Squad Now Ready for
Hard Practice.
NEW RULES TRIED OUT
Twelve Former Varsity Players
Form Nucleus of Team
for This Season.
NEW RULES TRIED OUT
GRy Telegraph 80 The Tribune

team. viii gather the candidates Tor his
1910 eleven about him on soldiers Field
w Monday. II is expected that the squad
u-iII be large ono. and also that moro Than
half of last vesr's regulars and substitutes
uiU report And that there viii he large
representation from last seasons freshman
team
Harvara's policy on the Eridiron viii he
the same as in 19G9 and 1898 HauEhton,
7rho coached both these seasons. has been
engaged for three more years At an annual
salary Of s.. oe0 and there viii be Few
changes In his staff Of assistants There
have been lost through graduation the ma
ioritv Of the really strong players on the
7eoe eleven. but for ali that the outlook Is
regarded a. promising
Since September J the Harvard coach
ms had bout thirty PLAYERS al q camp al
C-oaany1Ile. Me: these returned last Fri
dsx looking in splendid trim for the com
ing campaign Besides getting into con6i-
zion the players received instructions on
the new rules and tried oUt many expert
mental formations and plays for coaches.
This work Is calculated to make IL possible
,or sct7lal foot ball 10 lie begun little ear
1ie- than usual on Soldiers Field this Tali.
While preliminary football practice Is no
squad was much larger and its practice sss-
SION considerably longer than IN eigh-
teen years- Sat the numerous changes in
,he playing rules and the necessity of eN-
perience for the coaches as well as for the
pisvers made the early work acceptable,
II not absolutely necessary
Sixteen players contested in the Harvard
game against Yale last November and of
these five. or al the most seven. will not be
available this fall. Besides Captain Ham
liton Fish. Harvard has lost Paul Whiting
ton the centre: Gil Browne and Rogers.
both of whom played left end against Yale;
Frank Houston. ono OF the right end rush
ers snd probably both Mckay, the right
tackle. and Alino;. the fullback Mckay
and Minot remain in college. while the
Tiers have been graduated; but the elei-
bfyit1 OF Mckay and Ninot is doubtful
that the football management Il counting
an having neither player because OF their
low scholarship standing.
There remain, therefore. tie following
eI!gibles among the players that were in
.hc lineup against Yale last fan; Lothrop
wilmington. left guard Fisher, right guard;
/ u Smith right end: O F'laherty and
WT-gleezxorth quarterhacks. and Halt
racls 7. L. Smith rockingham. Leslie and
Corbett ". RIodEett guard: Bush, h
tackle. and Morrison. 3 fullhack, three q
seven other players who participated
against Dartmouth, but who did not play
IN the Yale game viii be hack this fan.
Twelve men, therefore, Of those who saw
service against Yale or Dartmouth last
,es- form the nucleus Of this season
'-srsity squad
Last vear Harvard's second eleven was
r.o4 very strong not nearly 80 good as
rtTrrr1
that the team Of 1910 would have 70 be De
veloped mainly from material that had not
zen service on the varsity which account
81 for the importance Of developing =
strong second team 10 provide for this
,-ea-'s needs But at Cambridge there was
an exceptionally strong freshman team last
season. and the coach expects TO md much
good timber in the material passed along
20 him By the freshman coaches
There are about ten Of last years fresh
r,7ep that viii be watched closely on Sol
5iers' Ffeld this fall. and most q them
have been with the squad in Maine The
best men from the team are Gardner, prom
ssirs for end or quarterback HOLSTER. an
end: Iingard and FELTON,. tackles; Parmen-
+e- guard. and Craustein, Wendell. Lewis
and Marsh for the backheld. OF these
Gardner FELTON, Lewis and Grausteln
doubtless would have been on the varsity
squad last fall save for the rule barring
freshmen f+ocdale- captain Of last years
freshmen and q guard. is ID college, but
that h. VIII PLAY football Is doubtful. as ne
also is an oarsrnan and may elect TO re-
main with the crew squad for the fail
rowing.
while the new rules make il appear that
everywhere there viii be premium on
good ends and backs this fall more even
rar.3i
iug forward passes. -onside kicks and
quarterback running" nothing Of course,
has developed 50 far that viii tend to
change the belief Of the coaches in a rush
line built according 10 historic standards.
Harvard apparently has good material, and
plenty Of il, for the backs and ends, but a.
the season starts the outlook for the for
parG line Is not so promising.
With TIE additional work that the ends
-ilI be called upon 70 do this fall It would
aeera that 10 have strong if not brilliant
tackles Is moro necessary than ever Har-
ard having lost both Mckay and Fish,
and having no experienced varsity substi-
t.te tackles viii have both positions to
fortify. Captain Wilmington last year
PLAYED tackle some. and may this year, or
20 may remain at guard. Perkins. prom
ising line candidate last season. may help
lutte lineInen Warren Blodgett came nearest
TO being Of varsity Stripe last fall
Although David g Campbell. Harvard's
1871 captain, IS now in the East perEa-
rentIy with headquarters IN Cambridge,
- Nin not be regularly available as a
coach but will assist. Paul Wilmington,
Captain WithInstons brother and last
Years centre IS expected to come to Cam
bridge from Honolulu. and he and ex-Cap-
tain Francis Burr Of the 1893 team win
re among the head coach's regular assist
ants. Ex-Captsin Fish, kersberg, Bob
herman and others viii not be at Cam
bridge permanently this fall, but Reggie
Brown, besides following the development
~ the eleven al New Haven again this
fsll. very likely viii be in closer touch
with affairs at Cambridge than AT any
tine since he was BIZ Reid's right hand
man in 1906 and 1895
The Harvard eleven wil1 play nine games
this fail. seven % them at Cambridge and
two away from home. The only nidweek
game viii be that with Bates q week from
Wednesday On October p Harvard will
play the Army az West Point. and viii end
the season at New Haven. with Yale. on
November ~ just TWO months to a day
after the squad reports