The Washington herald., 1912-12-22

year ago from professional to the
! graduate system the beginning was
thought TO be made of improvement. but
| Indications favor at present a return, at
| least In some respects, TO the professional
system.
professional coach has been rein
stalled in basketball, Pop Foster. the
| old Eastern League outielder and Bridge
port professional basketball player, hav-
ing been given charge of the seven for
| the coming season. There is talk that a
professional coach will be chosen to take
charge OF the battery candidates I'm the
| baseball cage this winter. but Capt.
Blossom has not confirmed the report.
| At present Yale is without system or
policy TO which admirers of the univer-
sity can point and claim that 1t 10 the
consistent method for developing teams.
graduate advisory committee has
been chosen. however. in every branch
of major sport. and under the direct
supervision Of this the captains are now
giving orders for the development and
training Of the teams. More than that-a
new general athletic committee has just
been formed, with a brand new constitu-
ton giving 1t powers for governing and
shaping Yale's athletic policy.
This has only just been organized and
is hardly yet in working order 1t con-
tains eight undergraduates and only five
alumni members. giving the student
members a majority over the graduates
but the influence Of the alumni is ex-
peCted TO prove strong enough to correct
many OF the evils that have grown into
the system
These two changes. the appointment OF
an advisory committee in every branch
of sport. and Of new central athletic
committee, are YaIe's attempts to i'm
prove matters. and a betterment of con-
ditions is expected soon.
Whether the veteran Kennedy or some
other professional will return to the crew
or whether an English coach will be i'm
ported TO assist young Hartman. who
has assumed the hercuIean task of
coaching the present crew, is only con-
jectural. but the graduate committee is
determined to restore TO Yale a system
that shall bring to Yale the best results
from the material at hand
UnGerRrRds Torpid.
General lethargy is shown by the I'M
dergradutes in general. There have
been no mass meetings of protest or
investigation, and the only gathering of
undergraduates to act on a revision of
conditions. the mass meeting called to
take action on the proposed new athletic
constitution and committee last April.
succeeded in drawing out only a small
attendance and in simply ratifying a
constitution that had been already drawn
up and framed.
Although the athletic captains have
maintained their right to have the final
word in the selection of their teams. the
undergraduates have remained loyal to
the captains and have apparently been
content TO allow the alumni to effect the
changes that are clearly seen to be i'm
perative.
In the midst of the reform an investi-
CATION of conditions makes 1t clear that
Yale has not lacked athletes. The ma
terial for the baseball nine at present Is
the strongest in the history of Yale, and
for last year II was only little less
strong. The rowing material is excellent
and 1t was fine last year. The football
eleven that was trimmed 20 TO by
Harvard was essentially almost a world
heater, yet it PLAYED the worst football,
technically. any Yale eleven has ever
exhibited.
In track athletes alone has Yale been
short of material. yet Yale, with John
Mack as coach, has continued to almost
break even with Harvard and has de-
feated Princeton almost repeatedly.
The meetings of the new athletic COM
mittee. which will begin as soon as the
winter term of the university starts in
January, ar expected to prove the most
vital sessions OF any university athletic
body ever held. .......
The new committee has been given
power to make any change OF athletic
policy" and some of its members pro-
pose some radical reforms IN the governs
ing and coaching Of teams.
VIII 1t be Walter Camp with victories
and order. or some social light with de-
feats and chaosI