The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-13
Harvard Coaches
 Feel Discouraged
Backfield Good But Line Not Showing Enough Strength
 For Big Games

There was feeling Of confidence up at Cambridge a year ago. Today the football team is causing coaches and graduates no end of worry. There appears to be an uncertainty, a dis trust of what the future holds, that prevents the Crimson eleven from sweeping everything before it, as was done last autumn at this time. Two weeks from Saturday the team meets Brown, and all Cambridge is wonder ing who will win. Last year they were sure.
 Regarding this Harvard team which is creating such restlessness:
 With perhaps one exception. that of Storer at centre, the forwards are the same that will start against Yale. The pivotal man now substituting for the injured Huntington is showing up fully as we'll as the regular man. Of course Fisher is sure of right guard. Keays on the other side of the line is still on trial. Keays weighs over 19O pounds, and by all that's good in football has the build for an ideal guard. If a pugilist could be placed opposite him for about fif- teen minutes a day Keays might come into his own. As it is now, his faults are numerous. If he could play low instead of high hes might become a
 
 mighty soon whether he is absorbing the Haughton treatment or not If the pendulum swings the least bit wrong it's all off with Keays.
 Rogers, who is stationed beside him at tackle. has been working consist ently since he was assigned to the position. Of course Keays' whirns are source of worriment to Rogers. but he fits in we'll when opportunity comes a-knocking. Gardiner should not be dislodged from right tackle. He is stationed between two finished work men, Fisher and Bud Smith. The veteran end is enjoying good year the forward pass with Potter he prob- ably stands out as the greatest expon- ent of the play on the squad. Felton, at left end. is more valuable for his abilities as a kicker than those as an end player. He is, despite little slowness, becoming useful.
 The interference handed out to the man carrying the ball at Harvard this fall is not the worst ever. It will be remembered that Haughtons 1910 team ranked high in presenting full face toward the enemy and keeping it there, even if on the run. This years interference in line plays fails to open a sufficient hole to send the backf1eld men through. In the games to date the Crimson has failed in nearly all it's attempts to skirt the opposition's ends. The backfeld interference is very crude, which explains away, in part, the why and wherefore of this fault. The men sometimes get away too fast, leaving the alert forward men to jump in and puncture the play almost with it's start. At other times they form too slowly or lag behind, with the result that their opponents backf1eld rips in and topples over the man with the ball.
 Of course, there is no gainsaying the fact that Wendell is head and heels over any other of the Crimson back field. He is probably the best half back in the business when it comes to ploughing through the line. His peculiar build and form of running make him. a hard man to tackle He must be assailed just so or the run ner finds himself dashed to the ground Campbell and Morrison, though veterans. have not rounded in to form. Both men, however, have little to learn.
 Potter. of course, is the only good quarterback available since Wiggles- worth's injury.