New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-21
TRIED AND TRUE MEN
COACHING BIG ELEVENS
With One Exception, Leading
Teams Will Be in Charge
of Famous Teachers.
PRINCETON TEMPTING FATE
Has Adopted Yale's Old Method
of Trusting to Skill and
Enthusiasm Of Recently
Graduated Players.

No better line could be obtained on the
outlook Of the leading Eastern football
teams for the coming season than close
study OF the men who will act as their
coaches. At no time in the history of the
great intercollegiate game has 50 much
attention been given TO the selections
Of men for this position, and as result
the big elevens are in charge of tried and
true mentors a tn the possible exception
OF Princeton.
Perez d. Haughton at Harvard. George
II. Brooke at Pennsylvania, Howard Jones
AZ Yale Charley DAILY at West Point and
Or. Al Sharpe at Ithaca, are five men
who are unquestionably the leading
teachers Of football in the East. Prince
tone alone combats them with an mex
perienced man I'm Bluthenthal, centre rush
one year ago. and q rafting good one at
that. OF this list Haughton, of Harvard
and Sharpe. Of Cornell. are the only ones
who coached their respective elevens
last season. Haughton to an intercolle-
giate championship
Yale and PENNSYLVANIA have been
smarting considerably of recent years
Pennsylvania especially sliding back to
such an extent that an almost hopeless
situation has been the condition for two
years. which was partially overcome by
the lsven making a whirlwind finish last
wear i'm it's three big games. after losing
10 practically every team that came TO
Franklin Field.
Yales decline has not been nearly so
bad. but defeat by Princeton in 1911.
combined with a tie with Harvard. tie
With Princeton and crushing defeat
by Harvard in 1912 brought-matters. to
head at New Haven
After DAYS Of discussion the Yale
athletic heads chose Howard Jones
former end rush, as a salared coach for
a term of three years. Jones is brother
Of the brilliant quarterback, Tad Jones,
and a careful study Of his record brings
out the fact that Howard was a steady
and thinking end rush and a most sue
cessful coach at Yale and Syracuse. As
proof of the confidence Yale men have in
him il is only necessary TO state that a
hidebound and -honored custom was
forgotten when Jones was selected.
This was that a member Of the preced-
ing years eleven. preferably the captain,
should be selected as coach. Jones is
graduate Of Exeter and Yale. II is ru-
mored that his salary as coach is not
far behind the one paid former President
Taft, who is a professor in the Yale Law
school All Of which proves that
valuable football coach is well paid for
his three months work.
George II. Brooke. the new head OF
football at Pennsylvania. has been longer
in touch with the game than any of his
rival coaches Brooke played at Pennsyl-
vania in 1894 and 1906, and he was one of
the first great punters and drop kckers
in the sport His kicking contributed
much toward the early fame of Pennsyl-
vania in football Sinc& graduating he
has coached in California and al Swarth-
more. which latter team. although repre-
sentlng only a small college, has won
victories over university elevens like Cor
nell and Pennsylvania.
Besides being one Of the leading foot
ball men OF his time, Brooke is one Of
the best racquet and squash players in
America. having won the amateur cham
pionship some seasons back. His selec-
ton as coach. although greatly desired by
Pennsylvania men, was somewhat Of a
surprise because Of his long connection at
Swarthmore, and il is known that Penn
sylvania departed from It's precedent by
offering Brooke large salary 10 take
charge of football.
Brooke has written several books on
football Of a technical nature and has
been one Of the most advanced coaches
in developing open play as made possible
by the new rules relating to forward pass
ing and on-side kicking within the past
Ave years. Pennsylvania men place great
store by him and II is foregone conclu-
sion that his team will, be among the lead
ers In the matter OF tactics.
Lieutenant Chares Day Is the new man.
or rather the old coach Of some years back.
who has been recalled to West Point in
the hope that he will break the winning
streak Of the Navy IN the annual Army
Navy game, which holds peculiar signih-
canoe TO lovers Of the sport here because
st Will be played at the Polo Grounds this
year.
DAILY is one Of the most experienced
football players of the country and has
been ranked as one Of the greatest too:
first at Harvard and later with the Army.
At Cambridge as a quarterback his gen
eralship and splendid handling Of the ball
IN 1898 had much to do with the Crimsons
overwhelming victories over Yale and
Pennsylvania, the first won from either
rival in some years
Days most brilliant day Of football
was his almost single handed defeat Of
the Navy in 1901. when he ran back a
kickoff for a touchdown at the begin
ming OF the second half and later made a
field goal, thereby vanquishing the mid
shipmen by a score OF II to 5. Since
leaving West Point he has been assisting
at Harvard in developing different teams
and il would seem that given the ma
terial. Daily is the zone best bet" OF the
Army.
Harvard finally overcame the reluctance
of Percy ID. Haughton and re-engaged him
as head coach after the expiration of his
contract last fall. when Yale was de-
feated % TO 0 and Princeton Is to s.
Haughton is a Harvard graduate and
played on the same team with DAILY. at
tackle and fullback. He made his record
as a punter. his work against Yale In
Harvard's victory in 1895 being as master
full as his pupil, Felton's. the last year.
After graduation Haughton assumed
charge OF football at Cornell for two
years, but met with reverses. and il was
not until 1903 that Harvard engaged him
10 handle a situation which was even