The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
KETCHAM FACES
 BIC JOB IN 1913
NEW YALE FOOTBALL CAPTAIN MUST REORGANIZE FOOT
 BALL SYSTEM.

New Haven, Dec e-Capt. Henry H. Retcham. vI1o kyas chosen as the leader of the Yale eleven for the next year during the past week, will have several problems to Ifacebfor the com Ing year, the first of which he must fnce Immediately TnTsHe selection of a coach for the coming year.
 If there has been Yale captain better able to face these various mat ters followers of Yale sports for the past eight years do not know who he is Ketchazn has had remarkable Yale football team. He has always been a leader, socially as well as In athletics. He Is organizer and with this he combines the ability to lead Popularity-which is certainly a very important quality in a Yale athletic captain-he has in, large measure This was shown by his election as floor manager of the jun for promenade committee.7 the second most important position in the under graduate life
 ia polytechnic prep Tn Brooklyn, his home. and carried his ability to the more difficult field of Hotchkiss. Then he entered Yale and played on the freshman football team. He made a mark in freshman football and would have been captain except for the sen captain. That his work was not en- tireiy of an athletic nature is shown by the fact that he was elected 9 class deacon at the beginning Of sOph- onore year, the high position in re- Iigfous work of sophomore year. He was also elected to the sophomore German committee and to Psi Upsflon.
 But 1t was in football that he show ed especially sophomore year. He played center on the varsity s1ns such a way that he was chosen All -Amer-i- can center on nearly all the teams. Scluding that of Walter, Camp, who cas a great aversion to putung men on his5 eleven the first varsity year. He never showed this more than in the case Of Ted Coy, who was left off after his remarkable playing in the Princeton and Harvard games of the fall of 1907 During the past year he even improved his playing and so far has been the unanimous choice for All American center. sfs.y,a a.
 Ketchaxn Is the only center elected capta4n in Vale football history since Tax Commissioner William HI Corbin of Hartford, Conn. Corbin of football was center rush. He is the first Yale man since Tom SheyIin, who made the all-American his sophomore year and Tom Shevlin shad-.the ad- vantage of a year of varsity work his freshman year. for that was before the Yale rules barred freshneh from the
 Capt. Ketcha1n has before him the work of turning out a winning team if his class Is to see a winning Yale team in their four years of college life.
 
 that of Capt Coy in the fall of 1909 The present senior class saw that team play, but Capt Ketcham's class had never seen a championship Yale elev- en- This is quite different from the class of 1908, which went the four years without seeing a team that did not win the championships
 Ketcham is now taking,sa rest after the strenuous season andais not mak- ing definite plans for his team until after Chris tmas- He WiA-E have very Ecod material Benny Avery, the left end. will be a senior next year and should develop into a great end; Coo ney. Arnold and Pendleton, guards, will be back: Talbot and Harbison, tackles. and sCarter and Osborn, ends. The three orTour cfjfarter'bac cks of this year. Wheeler, Cornell, Loftus and Cornish. will all be here, suppl ement- eG by Thompson of the freshman team. Pumpelly, Markle. Castles and Flynn will be among the backf1eld men and to them will be added Capt Guernsey of the freshman team and the other freshmen backs So that withal Ketcham has quite a=htt1e to be thankful for during the holiday season and bright prospects for next