The Washington herald., 1913-12-28
Hinkey Admires the Open-style Football;
Yale's New Coach to Change Style of Attack

sent at him with a touchdown in view
Frank Hinkey, the famous end rush oi
the SOS. as head coach of the Ellis for
next fall, Is sure to make radical changes
in football methods at New Haven
Hinkey succeeds Howard Jones, who
during the past season, began his work
as Yale's first salaried coach under a con-
tract. Jones, it is understood, felt Obliged
to sever his contract in order to accept a
lucrative business proposition.
Hinkey has a big proposition on mis-
hands. Yale has not seen a championship
eleven since Ted Coy's famous team OF
49,: which was incidently coached by
Howard Jones, and Yale men look tC
Hinkey as Moses to bring the university
ou: of its present slump. Although Yale
loses several star players by graduation
there is a nucleus for a championship
team. Plenty of material will be fur
nished from this years freshman eleven.
Hinkeys coming undoubtedly means
that the open style of play will be
adopted. He has gone on record as being
an advocate of this and is also a firm
believer in the forward pass. 1t is there
fore probable that Yale will show an
attack next fall that will almost rcvoIu-
tionize the style OF play in vogue for sew
eral years past.
class of 80, has never been entirely out
OF Yale football councils.
He has returned each season since Then
to help out for a week or more when
most needed. AS his business would all
low him he has increased his stay at
New Haven. until last season he was
with Howard Jones the greater part nS
the season.
While a player of the old school, he
has kept apace with the game and knows
the modern one as well as he did the
old.
Hinkey will have Walter Camp as chief
adviser, and, besides, will be able 20
rally to his aid all the great Yale play
ers of the past from the 1913 team down
Hinkey is Yale's greatest end. He was
known as the Silent Captain when he
was at the head Of the team in 1888 and
1894
Although small, almost frail-weighing
only 1S7 pounds when he came to Yale
from Andover, and never more than I56
while playing football for the Blue.
Hinkey was as wicked a tackler and as
hard a player as ever put on togs. He
enjoys the unique position Of having his
name enrolled on four All-America
teams, as he was picked as one of the
two best ends of 1901 in his freshman
year.
He led the Yale team in 1894 when the
game was played that broke on relations
between the New Haven University and
Harvard. Throughout his college career
it is said that there was never a yari
made around his end.
From the very first he was one OF
Yale's most spectacular players In his
freshman year the season was not two
weeks old before II was no longer a
question Of whether the frail looking
freshman should play end rush, but of
which of the two veterans of Billy"
Rhodes's team should play the other
end. The place finally went to Josh
Hartwell, afterward Captain of the 1897
crew. Rhodes's team in the fall of 1880
was the first Yale team to be beaten by
Harvard since about 1876. The next year
Lee McClnng was captain. and Harvard,
with practically her victorious team OF
the year before. opened her attack on
the diminutive freshman end.
eerhstt their sreediest runner, was