New-York tribune., 1912-01-23
HOWE MAY COACH YALE
SpaIding Making Plans for Next
Football Season.
GARDNER TRACK CAPTAIN
Successor to Childs Chosen at
Meeting of Those Eligi-
BILE to Vote.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

New Haven, Jan. 22.-It was learned here
to-day on good authority that the Vale
football coaching staff for next year prac-
tically has been decided upon by Captain
Jesse Spaldng. While the position of
head coach Is slightly unsettled as yet. II
is considered probable that Arthur Howe,
captain Of the team last season, will be
the man. The post has been offered him,
and while there has been no formal ac-
ceptance 1t is generally believed that 1t
will come any day.
Howe was all-American quarterback this
year, and has been member of the Yale
football team for three years. He has been
a consistent star and should make good
coach for Yale. Tie is heady, cool and
reliable, and has played the game along
lines similar TO Howard Jones. one or
Yale's best graduate coaches.
Howe's assistants II he accepts, are al
ready settled upon Elmer G. McDevitt,
who played guard on the university team
fer the last two years, and whose prime
assets are steadiness and reliability, will
have charge OF the centre linemen.
He will be assisted by James W. Scully,
left tackle or the university team for the
last two years. 1t is understood that the
latter two have accepted their positions and
nothing remains except for Howe TO fall
in line.
The coaching system az above outlined
would be along lines similar TO those insti-
tuted by Captain Howe last season. Pre-
viously there has been only one resident
graduate coach, but five were here last
year. With such men as Scully and Nc
Dewitt handling the linemen. and Captain
Howe coaching the backheld, Yale would
be assured Of a successful rcaliZa ton Of the
traditional Yale system. Three more popu-
lar men could not be selected by Captain
Spalding, and IL Howe returns and con-
ducts the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton department of the college he will un-
doubtedly coach the football team.
In addition TO these men, there will be
other graduate coaches from time TO time,
and freshman coach. procured IL possible
from among the graduates, as last year S
freshman system under Kistler was most
successful. Kistler yesterday left the Yale
inirmary, where he has been confined since
the football season closed with typhoid
fever bronchitis and jaundice.
Robert Able Gardner, OF Chicago a mem
Der of the senior academic class, was to-
day unanimously elected captain OF the
Yale university track team, to succeed
Clarence c. Childs, a law school senior
who resigned from the university to go into
business in New York City.
Only seven members of last years team
we're left in college and eligible to vote
Gardner has been a member of the track
team for three years. In his sophomore
year he ranked second In the Yale-Prince
ton. Yale-Harvard and intercollegiate track
meets in the pole vault his tcammate
Nelson, winning all three.
Last year Gardner took first in the Prince
ton and Harvard meets in his event, anc
second I'm the Intercollegiate meet wher
he was not In his best form. lie is gener.
ally regarded as capable of making a new
worlds record I'm the pole vault. lie has
also been amateur golf champion OF th'
United States. He is one OF the most popu
lar members of his class, and the under
graduate body is much pleased over his
election. lie is a member of Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity and Skull and Bone!
senior society. Prospects for successful
year are fair.