New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-25

sleveps prominent for seasons 10 I'm
Harvard. then. can be congratulate w"
this capable coach has consented !"
another 1--WE years
,,,,oL cou1d he written about the 1a'e
.t.,,on hut post-mortems with nothing 10
n. gained are unsatisfactory al
that the least sal6 perhaps lhe
There is one thing. however Whleh ~
hard 10 overlook. The cher 1auit vi
team. in my opinion, was lack VI l'''1
for which the coaches are even more
sporsibIe than the players. Greater
,lsion and more smOotlneSs "eie heeu."
20 make the offence effective. AGAIN '"o
attack was lacking in elasticity anu
riety I gained this impression ai'er inc
Princeton game. and II was conhrheo u!
Vale man in New Haven on SS'uiu"''
who did not hesitate 10 say lhHt one VI
two of the coaches who reported la'e
were amazed that so few plays had Dee"
nroyid4d. and urged that something ~
done even at the eleventh hour, TO Dros'-
an ONT the offence nv only reason 10.
mentioning this is that ! deprecate me
aforementioned abuse--which has been
beaped upon the PLAYERS in the last week
bv some of the coaches according TO re-
ports from New Haven. High splrI"o
b mon particularly those Of finer senSl-
hilities. are bound to resent such Ine'h-
f3cds 10 arouse their spirit when they may
be eivsrs OF, their best. No DOUBT some
L rt.rhP Yale, PLAYERS needed rousing aI'ef
tleiy some what sluggish play against tie
: Tisers. but IT could have been done, me-
thinks. without holding them up a.
J horrible examples. No one could accuse
tthose Yale players Oh Saturday OF lack
~ courage or nghting spirit. Some 81
: Them blundered, and blundered badly, bit
I there was no sign OF dscouragement. and
they kept on trying. Perhaps. after all.
: the coaches should share some Of the
blame for the failure to make the most
Of the excellent material al hand.
Before another week is over the foot
balI season OF 1872 will be q memory, and
: not altogether q happy memory FOR some
OF the elevens Three more games OF
more than usual interest must be played,
: hut none OF them will have any particu-
lar bearing on the ranking for the sea-
son. On Thanksgiving Day Thursday
Pennsylvania and Cornell will do battle
AT Philadelphia. while the Carlisle Ind.
fans will take the field against Brown al
., Providence. Then comes the wlnd-up on
Saturday, when the teams representing
Uncle Sans naval and military acade-
miles will engage In mimic warfare on
Franklin Field, Philadelphia.
Cornell has a score to settle with Penn
svlvsnia in which ali Cornell mon are
vitality Interested. In an effort TO cut the
string of sixteen defeats in eighteen
wears and to make Thanksgiving Day
something moro than another big swsi-
low OF disappointment new leaf was
turned in the football book at Ithaca last
winter. After considering the subject
from every angle, 1t was decided that d
radical change must be made In the sys-
, tenn or method OF coaching, and DR.. Al
Sharpe. OF Yale, was engaged as head
coach to pull Cornell out OF the FOOTBALL
m!re. so to speak. The task has not
= nroved an easy one. but after visit 10
, ithaca Il is not so hard 20 understand
Why the season up TO this point has been
failure, SO far as results go. The
coaches and players have been handi-