The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-14
ELEVENS IN BIG COLLEGES ARE
AT WORK IN PREPARATION
FOR NEXT YEAR.
Y0ST PICKS ALL-STARS
Michigan Coach Names Eleven
Greatest Football Players in His
tory Of the Game-Rules Satisfy
Western instructors.

New York, March 13.-While the
major league ball players are in the
south basking themselves under warm
sunny skies football is being played in
the northland. But the game the
college men are playing varies quite
differently from that Sc on q idirons
IL the autumn. The game-that is the
rudiments of it-are being worked
out in the various gymnasiums where
the pigskin chasers are gathering.
The call to arms has been sounded,
and from now on until the end of col
loge so-called spring practice will
hold the strict attention of college
coaches.
Spring practice has become a most
important factor in the development
OF a varsity squad. 1t is from this
that coaches, as a rule, are able to
sort out available material, which
later goes through a course of sprouts
brD.ging about football perfection.
Princeton has begun work, as has
Pennsylvania. Brown also has fallen
INTO line. From time to time others
viii fail into line, and by the middle
of this month practice will have be-
tbHle almost dS lilpol tdnt as ll'
shaping of the various ball squads.
Yaie, however, will not start training
in this direction until March IS.
While the rules committee has put
the idea of numbers up to the col
leges, Yale for one will not adopt the
novel scheme. The fact is made pub
lie by Captain Henry c. ketcham of
the Eli eleven. According to Captain
Ketcham the reason Yale don't adopt
numbers is because the coaches feel
that the change may have a tendency
in giving away plays, and for that
reason alone numbers will be kept off
The Yale uniforms.
Word has come here from New
Haven that there will be no winter
practice this year. In former years
the squad was called out in January
for several weeks of work in the gym"
naisum, especially for the quarter
backs.
Spring Work at Yale.
The cancelling of winter practice,
however, will have little effect, for
the squad win start spring training
two weeks earlier han last year, as
the Easter vacation coming earlier
will allow a fortnight more of light
training than usual.
Howard Jones, the new head coach,
has promised to lie on hand after
Easter. 1t is quite likely that plans
for the summer will be outlined
Captain Ketcham believes that Yale
field will be the place for his work
and that the squad VIII be called to-
gether to begin preliminary fall work
two weeks before the first game of
the season, which will be played with
Wesleyan on September "a.
An-Time Team.
Coach Yost OF Michigan is very
fond of picking all-Anlcrican teams
The Wolverine leader has now picked
an all-American eleven which ne
thinks is the best of all lime inc
clever, according to his way OF THINK
ing, is made up of the following men;
Hjnkey, Yale, left end; Dewitt
Princeton, left tackle; iIeffeltinger,
Yale, left guard: Schultz, Michigan,
center. Hare. Pennsylvania, right
p,,ard. cults, Harvard, right tackle;
SNOW, Michigan, right end; DAILY, thar
ward, quarterback: Heston, Michigan,
left halfback; Kelly, princeton, right
halfback Coy, Yale, fullback.
Coach Al Sharpe of Cornell thinks
that tradition is a strong factor III
athletics. Speaking at a dinner re-
Gently at syracuse, DR.. sharpe sad
"Cornell's crews cross the line III thc
lead wear after year because they
have the traditions of Cornell to NV"
pln to. The football men next year
will have the tradition established by
the Cornell line this year to uphold
The game played at Philadelphla last
November was the one gam OF the
year thai was played according 10
Hoyle. and was a good game ioSt
largely through the misfortune Oh
war"
The work OF the line in holding
ia rtmouth to eleven downs inside the
fiye-yard line; its holding Michigan
70 two first downs in the entire game
and holding PENNSYLVANIA to one flrs'
down was commended as showing the
beginning of the true flghtlhg splrl'
which DR.. Sharpe said must DC
Brought out.