The Washington herald., 1912-10-13
BY H. M. SNEVILY.
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BY H. M. SNEVILY.
4 ESSE SPALDING, Douglas Bo
meisler and Halliday Philbin are
back at Yale and Arthur Howe is
there to coach them in football. lore.
That is one big reason why sew
eral thousand Yale men, students
and graduates, are tuning up their choral
organs in the expectation of bowling at
several Yale victories this autumn, nota-
bly, one over Princeton and another over
Harvard.
And the best of it is. from the point OF
view of Yale success, that there are
youngsters who have started out to give
the veterans the fight of their young lives
to hold the places they won for them
selves last year. At the very start'ot the
season ninety men reported for football
practice, which augurs well for the team
despite the fact that there was an over
abundance of men light in weiS who
wanted to make quarterbacks.
Jesse Spalding. captain of this years
eleven. is the man of the hour at New
Haven. You see his photographs dis
played in smoke shops, the windows of
stationery stores and in almost every pho
tographers show frame in town. Friends
of the young man, who sincerely regrets
this form of publicity, say that he has
difficulty in discovering routes by which
he can travel about New Haven without
staring himself in the face half a dozen
times to a block. Such is fame, and to
modest young man who doesn't like it it's
a nuisance.
From early Indications, Spalding will
do a generous share of Yale's kicking this
season, and he seems to be equal to the
task. The coaches are drilling him hard,
and it is likely that Yale's football career
for 1912 will hinge to a great extent on
this young giants toe, or, to speak strict |
Iy, on his instep.
In the first weeks of practice Spalding |
was getting the ball fifty yards down the
field, and he gives the spheroid an ugly
twist which sends it into the arms of the
opposing back with that puzzling spiral;
m ION which makes it so hard to hold.
soalding's punts have height enough to let
S ends down under them, too. Even
allowing for little delay in the ends get
ting away, the ball is long enough in the
air to allow his men to be on the spot in
time to cover the man who receives it.
With men like Bomeisier, who was picked
for All-American end last year, and Avery
and Sheldon, who played in some of the
big 1911 games, at the extreme ends of
the line Spaldings punts 81 NJ I've well
taken care of.
1t is generally concede: by c, iches that
the kicking department If -ie game will
be important this year, 9th in attack and
defence. There is ~" telling exactly how
the new rules will work until after few
weeks of actual games, but it is certain
that a good punter will be a very eifec-
tive man for a team, though there may
not be quite so much drop kicking or
placement kicking for goals from the field
as there was last year.. This is due to the
rule allowing the forward pass across the
goal line for touchdown.
1t may be that few touchdowns will be
made from this play, but the threat of
such a manoeuvre will be ever present
and the result will be that the defending
team must play in rather open formation
within fifteen yards of the goal line to
guard against this threatened forward
pass to a touchdown. This means that /.
with two teams equally matched there ,
will not be SO many cases of the ofenceI /
being held in the last ten yards or so and
drop kicks for field goals will not be sol
employed.
So it looks as though the puntins game I
sould be more important phase Of kick-is .