Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-28
YALE'S PECULIAR
FOOT BALL SITUATION
Ellis Are Hopeful of a Glorious
End, in Spite of Their
SetbackS.

Not In q good many years has Yale
been confronted with foot ball problem
! sucn as the coaches now have on their
hands. Indeed. the writer cannot recall
any year In Yale's recent history which
| included defeat and q scoreiess tie be-
fore the completion OF the preliminary
games Yet Yale is taking the matter In
strangely philosophical and almost sto-
! ical manner. Head Coach Coy declines 70
De either alarmed or DISCOURAGED over
the situation. and even Walter Camp ac-
eepts the situation with equanimity. Odd
iy enough. Yale men do not even con-
slider themselves out Of the running for
the foot ball championship and IL their
team beats Princeton and Harvard doubt
less they VII consider themselves entitled
TO the championship o. the gridiron.
TX is 40 fiction that Yates whole season
Is mapped out With the Princeton ana
Harvard games. especially the latter. 49,
the teams objective point. The winning
OF these may restore Yale to her formeI
Eridron prestige. but at the same time
Yale men must be secretly disappointed
and amazed at the showing their eleven
has made this fall.
From this distance il looks as though
the Ellis had not made the most OF new
foot ball. Their position this fall is some
what analogous to that Of Pennsylvania
TOUR years ago. when the forward pass
was first introduced. That year Pennsyi-
vania'S coaches made no secret of their
dislike and almost contempt for the new
play. In fact, they were not converted to
'tS usefulness until the Indians descended
OF Franklin Field and overwhelmed them
with their clever Use OF this play.
Yale Opposed Changes.
Yale men We're not in sympathy with
the new game. much as they now protest
the. like IL. Both Head Coach Coy and
walter Camp expressed their liSapproVai
OF II in strong terms before the opening
Of the season. That feeling NAV have
been responsible for the slow progress the
Ellis have made In new foot bali to date.
for failure in this seems To have been
the cause OF fale's poor showing against
both West Point and Vanderbilt 1t is
true that the ELS lost most Of their 1909
veterans In June. but Yale has always
had such q wealth OF high-ciass material
that this loss should not have reduced
the team to its present weakness. Re
ports from New Haven now indicate that
Yale ia preparing to open up wide her at
tack to make amends for lost time. II
remains to be seen whether there Ia yet
time to build up an ofrense saficient TO
overcome both Princeton and Harvard.
That. al any rate. IL Yale's CHIEF ambi
ton at present. and IL IL is achieved Il
Will be typical OF Yale's spirit.
4 transformation is being effected in
Pennsylvania line. 1t is being accom-
plished In part by one. man. who is at
last finding himself This man Is Elder.
whom the coaches want to develop into
q tackle. Until last week. and for q Pc
riod OF more than two years. Elder has
been sort OF playtning Tor the scruDS.
Possessed OF magnificent build and
strength. he should have been a second
Hare. In physique the two men are much
alike. Hare. though. was one Of the fast
est and cleverest big men the college
world hae seen.
II Pennsyivanis. overwheins the Indians
SATURDAY., or even beats them by any
thing like a decisive score. II will mean
that the Quakers have a high-class foo
ball machine. IL may De taken for granite.
that the Indians Will play abou. 30 per
cent better against the Quakers than they
did against either Syracuse or Princeton.
Paradoxical As ii may seem. the Indians
would sooner win from Pennsylvanla
than from Princeton or from Harvard
when they played the Crimson.