New-York tribune., 1911-10-25
ON COLLEGE GR|D|RONS
Yale Varsity Eleven Has lougn'
est SCrimmage OF Year.
COACHES PLAY FOR SCRUB
Osborne Field Closed and Tlgers
Have First Practice Behind
Barred Gates.
ruv reieVrarh TO The Tribune.

~ew Haven. oct 2A-The Yale varsity
had its toughest sCrinmage OF the year w.
dav It's work against West Point ana the
rest of Yesterday have led the coaches "
make the weeks campaign aggressive III
.pa extreme. There viii probably be no
secret practice the coaches merely oring-
ing out everything the team has IN It's
,-osont series OF plays. The scrimmase
~ to-day lasted only twenty-five minutes.
Some OF the varsity players said they
Thought they had played an hour
To bring out the hardest fighting quah-
ties IN the team three Of the Yale coaches'
who we're former stars, made up the scrub
boc,-6eld-Paul veeder and Kister. last
vear's fullback. PLAYED the halfback posi-
+sons for the scrubs and Wheaton, now
coachiag al Annapolis, played fulloacK.
Foster Sanford played in the line short
nsriod Play started az midield. and the
bal was given 20 the scrubs. who had a
e.r4ue line and with the star backheld ana
st~a.t 40 quarterback they were very
formidable. They advanced the ball 0y
straight rushing 20 the varsity l-yard hne
and there lost II on downs. The varsity
then carried the ball the length Of the field
Nv the hardest kind Of playing, but the
scrubs held almost on their goal line ana
took the ball on downs.
The play went up and down the Held
twice more. each team stihening toward its
goal and preventing a score. Toward the
end ~ the play IL looked as II the varsity
was going TO score but play was stopped
., r,srr,i+ the men 20 make their recita-
+ions The uplay was again as good as
els. =
and apparentIy the slump was only for
that day The line had severe test by
allowing the scrubs several downs near
the varsity goal. but they could not put II
over and with such plungers as kistler
and Veeler playing for the scrubs the feat
means something
Freeman and Spalding were the varsity
halves and their work was the feature.
Standings work was extremely good. HIS
e~esd on end runs ana ability 70 pick holes
and strong heavy PLAYING looked very good
Freeman PLAYED HIS usual good game and
was but slightly behind Spalding. II seems
inevitable that Freeman and Spalding
should be the regular halves. as previously
forecast here. and the playing Of them
as REGULARS to-day indicates strongly that
The coaches have come 20 she same con-
cIusion They are Yale's speediest halves
make the best defensive combinations. the
two best punters and forward passers and
both are the type Of men 20 prove unex-
pectedlv brilliant Reilly and Andersen are
good subs, but their play hardly entities
them 20 preference over Spalding and Free
man Phlbin played al fullback few
minutes to-day, Andersen replacing him.
Both We're fair. Yale is not strong al
flback. Church may eventually develop
fast from the scrubs and beat both men
out
The new coaches to-day were Sanford.
Glass. Veeder. Wheaton. Flanders, Wander
poeI Townsend. Julian Curtiss and Howard
Jones
The lineup was as follows: Francis, left
end. Scully. left tackle; Childs, left guard
K-tcham. centre: NcDevitt. right guard
Paul. right tackle: Avery. right end; Mer-
ritz quarterback; Freeman, left halfback'
Spalding. right halfback, and Philbin. full
back. substitutes, Warren for Scully, Perry
Tor Paul. Parker for Childs and Andersen
Tor PhiIbin.