New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-06
FOOTBALL SEASON NOW
Under FULL HEADWAY
poaI Test Next Saturday for
the Yale, Harvard and
Cornell Teams.
VALUE OF CLEVER PUNTER
necision of Gardiner to Give
In Game at Cambridge a
Striking Object Lesson
for Good.
By Herbert.

BY Herbert.
with Yale playing Lafayette at New
u.yen. Harvard facing Williams at Cam
hr,dge. the Carlisle Indians doing battle
With, Cornell at Ithaca and Rutgers
,b,sstening West Point next Saturday. IT
uov he said that the football season is in
nIl swing. Rarely have so many good
oan.s been scheduled for the early sea-
con az IS the case this year, as those
,,.,tioned are only the most interesting
% the many arranged. Lafayette proved
on Saturday against Pennsylvania that
,bs yale eleven will not lack for another
,borough trying out. No doubt Howard
lanes the new head coach at New Haven.
will welcome this opportunity TO set
further line on the players whom he
e working so hard TO develop for
N. more important games later. The
University Of Maine opened his eyes on
Saturday. as there is nothing like a good
stiff battle against worthy opponent
"a show I'D weaknesses that may be over
,ooked or even remain undiscovered in
the daily practice scrimmages with the
scrub. The building of football eleven
&c a much slower process than the build
Eng OF baseball nine. and the Yale team
will not reach the height Of its power
until lust before the game with Princeton.
The same is true largely Of Lafayette.
but the smaller colleges OF necessity are
forced TO work faster. as their rating de
Ponds more upon the general showing or
the season rather than on two or three
biz games right at the end. In view OF
this. Yale will not lack for another real
game next Saturday.
It's rather early to begin making foot
ball predictions, but Rutgers has team
which will come pretty close TO beating
the Army eleven at West Point next Sat
urday, particularly If Toohey. one Of the
best tackles seen in many day. recov-
ers from a bruised hip suffered against
Union. This particular Rutgers team is
triumph for coaching methods. In the
hands OF such a master as George Foster
Sanford the men have acquired foot
ball knowledge in three short weeks,
which has advanced them TO point rare
" dreamed Of at smaller colleges. / went
down TO New Brunswick on Saturday,
hoping 10 see Union-my own college-re-
peat the victory of a year ago. and tum-
bled into a most interesting football
problem, or. better. football metamor-
phosis, that furnished food for much
thought and material for much comment,
with more time and space at command.
II can be said even before the Army game
that Toohey at tackle, Bracher at half
back and Talman at guard are OF ALI
America material.
Williams has never been able TO COM
nand the same respect in football as it
does In baseball but Fred DAILY, the Yale
captain and halfback three years ago. has
accomplished much IN coaching the
eleven, and reports indicate that he will
put reasonably strong team in the field
against Harvard. The chance OF beating
what practically is a veteran team at
Cambridge Is hardly worth considering,
but II Williams can make a good stand,
as there is every reason to believe, a
double purpose will be served in proving
that the game as now played under the
revised rules has been more nearly
equallzed and showing what can be eX-
pected Of the Crimson team. which a
year ago was ranked as one of the great
est ever developed.
Percy D. Haughton is wonderfully well
equipped with tried and true material at
Harvard this year. Mahan may lack the
remarkable plunging ability Of Wendell
but he is quite likely TO prove of more
general value 10 the team. Brickley, the
sharp-shooting drop kicker, and HardwicN
are host in themselves. while the prob
lem at quarterback does not appear hard
10 solve at this time, with Bradlee as one
OF the candidates. With a dashing pair
OF ends In O'Brien and Coolidge. two ster-
ing and experienced tackles in Hitchcock
ana Captain Storer. it remains only for
the head coach TO settle on a strong cell
IRE trio, which seems reasonably easy,
and TO find a punter TO take Sam Felton's
place, which is not so easy, with strong
emphasis on the not.
Punters like Sam FELTON, are born, not
made. II would not be fair to detract
IRON the credit due the machine which
Fercy Haughton developed last year, but
II can be said that Felton's twisting spir-
ais were potent asset and an entering
Wedge 10 victory in more than one game.
Nate Wheeler, the Yale quarterback no
uouot will tell anybody who cares to ask
mat Felton's twisting punts were to loot
oall what the spitbal is TO baseball. NO
oooy who knows Wheeler or saw him
hsht his way to intercollegiate golf cham
p1onship would question his courage, ana.
further, he Is not the kind of man 10
make excuses. but he has told close
friends, and there are plenty of others
10 bear him out, that the ball from Eel
IONS punts took the most errauc dips
ana curves, ana usually just when play
or was set TO receive ii. IL was the SUD
zen shoot forward or back or to the right
Or left that made IL so hard to judge and
handle, and not so much the spin. OF
winch, OF course. il had plenty. III Is
rather late in the day perhaps. to discuss
feitons punting, inasmuch as he has
oeen graduated and no longer is factor
70 be considered, but it serves to empha-
size how much Harvard will miss this
payer and why opposing elevens VIII
nave less TO dread and less TO overcome
IN taking the field against the Crimson.
Harvard has just lost another good
man In Tudor Gardiner, who has decided
10 give up playing rather than risk an in