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to summing up the result of the season.
with Washington and Lee, North Caro-
lima. A. & M. Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute and Virginia appearing against
Georgetown a fairly accurate line can
easily be got on the relative merits Of the
best elevens.
A former player on a Cornell foot ball
team in letter to the Cornell, Alumni
News comments on the foot ball situation
and explains why he believes that the
coaching system is at fault and RESPONSE
BILE for the poor showing of the univer-
sity on the gridiron. It is his opinion
that good material goes to waste every
year because of the ineffective coaching
and in concluding his remarks regarding
the situation, he says:
How can a visiting coach returning
for a week or so comprehenSively IN
struct player whom he has never seen
play in the way to stand, charge. etc /!
Right here is where players individu-
work Is essential, but destroy a player 8
individuality and you ruin the player.
individuality must be developed to con-
form with the system, but first let us get
system, which We can only get through
instruction under an experienced coach
for sufficient number OF years to en-
able the style and method Of play to be-
come standard. Can a player be prop
erly developed il for a week or two he
is coached by another visiting coach an
the glazing defect in our system Of
coaching. / experienced just these things
when PLAYER on Percy Field. and ! saw
good material wasted through the appli-
cation of such methods"
There is no school in the country which
has more expert gathering OF men on
Its coaching staff for the various
my. Dick Glendon. who has coached the
Middies in rowing since Ten Eyck went
to Syracuse, will look after the crews
again this year. Breckenridge. who has
developed some great base ball teams at
Amherst during the past two years. will
have charge of the Sailors nine this
spring. while William Ffnlayson, one OF
the best professional lacrosse players
ever developed in Canada, will teach the
Middies' twelve the fine points of the
sport. And in each of the other branches
of athletics the Sailors have one of the
best men in the country along the par
ticular line to give the candidates instruc-
ton, and it is more than likely that that
accounts, In a great measure, for the
extraordinary success attained by the
midshipmen in almost every sport which
they undertake.
ton has made arrangements for crew
races with Pennsylvania and Columbia
to take place on Lake Carnegie this
spring. it is not likely that the Tigers
Will Sc1u d Crew W 1Ou6HhccQSiC duo TIC
other big regattas w. w. Roper. who
is at the head Of athletics at Princeton.
has issued statement that Princeton is
not financially capable OF supporting
crews on the same basis that it does foot
ball, track and base ball, and maintain
the same degree of efficiency. Roper
has said that he does not see the way
clear for Princeton to become q big inter-
collegiate factor In rowing for two or
three years as yet.
Technical and Central will likely hold
the center Of the track stage from local
scholastic standpoint during the coming
winter. Technical has practically vet
eran relay four. while Central has men
for the individual events who will not
be beaten out for any trophy by a local
school. Over at Western an attempt is
being made to develop a team from men,
bers Of last years third relay four and
new men, but 1t will be what now APP
pears to be an almost impossible task to
put out a senior quartet as good as that
which represented the Red and White
last season.