New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
Football Team for This Fall
Will Be Practically One
of Veterans.
SEVEN REGULARS IN LINE
Has Wealth of Promising Ma
terial to Fill Vacancies
No Dartmouth Game
This Year.

diers' Field tomorrow. under the leader
ship Of Percy ID. Haughton. who mas
signed a contract to coach the Crimson
teams for three more years.
Harvard begins work several days oe-
hind Yale and Princeton, but as the team
will be one of veterans and will be to-
gether practically ell the year, extra pre-
liminary work was not thought necessary
by the head coach.
Seven of last seasons regular play efs'
including two who have been in the var
sty lineup for two years. will be avail
able, as will Gardiner. who. as a tackle
two years ago. was rated among the best
until he was injured. Also, there is
goodly supply of first class substitutes
from 1912, besides TWO high class players
from last years freshmen eleven, who
are expected TO prove varsity timber
from the start OF the campaign.
Altogether. the Crimson will get under
way with unusually good prospects for
strong team and one that should be as
fast and proficient in football as that
which Haughton and hts associates de-
veloped last fall and which was rated az
one of the best football machines OF all
time.
Harvard Is especially fortunate in hav-
ing a good rush line FELTON,, an enc
whose great value last fall was his KICK
ing. has been graduated, as has Parmen-
ter. the centre rush, but otherwise the
line is intact. with O'Brien, a veteran
end; Storer and Hitchcock, both tackles,
these cen being in the varsity line IN
I'D Iv1tUo
Pennock, who were such strong guards
last year.
In the backfeid Harvard will miss
Percy Wendell the All-American back
and Harry Gardner, who was well sea-
soned at quarter: but Brinckiey ana
lIardwick both remain. the former being
the Crimsons wonderful drop-hicker, and
the latter as valuable a player in inter-
ference as the game produced OIL any
gtidiron last fall
Thus Harvard has centre, one end
quarterback and one of the halfback
places to All. with plenty of material in
sight Rradlee. who was about as good
as any Of the first striag backs last year,
will he tried at quarter. Mahan. OF the
70 freshman team, is kicker who is
practically the equal OF FELTON, and who
Is one OF the best football players re-
Gently sent out from Andover. Gardiner
will not play tackle again, but Will be
used at end, while in addition 10 Wiggles-
worth, substitute varsity centre last fall.
Harvard will have Soucy, a first class
centre rush, who WILL probably make the
team, Judging by his play last fall.
Bradlee's place at quarterback is not
assured. nor has the position Of centre
rush been determined. The other nine
places on the team can almost be decided
at this early date. Of course. barring pos
sible physical injury.
For quarterbacb Captain Storer has
Friedley and Logan. both of whom were
with the varsity squad last year. and
Watson from the freshmen. Bradlee.
however. is the type OF man desired, and
II Is the intention now 70 make a quar-
terbsck Of him II it takes ell season. As
for centre, both Wigglesworth and Soucy
ere real varsity material.
Besides Soucy there Is other good ma
terial coming along from the 1915 class
team which beat Yale IS to II last No
vember. Mahan. the halfback, a great
kicker, as we'll as sure handler Of
punts. is most promising. He is almost
sure to be in the varsity lineup from
the start. and a part of the running at
tack with Hardwicl and Brickley. Other
good freshmen backfield men are McKin-
lock and Whitney, and among the quar-
terbacks are Watson, Gilman and Cowan,
all heavy and sturdy linemen. Lyman.
the best end on the freshmen team very
probably will not be able to play because
of deficient college work
The end proposition, however. should
not be g. hard one this year. provided
O'Brien and Gardiner are In trim. Besides
these men, however, Coach Leary has
Coolidge. Weatherhead. 81. J. Smith and
Dana, all OF whom were on the varsity
squad last fall. Weatherhead. In partic-
ular. is a fine physical type for end and
is expected to be considerably better than
ne was last year. Dana and Coolidge
both showed much promise a year ago.
With Wigglesworth and Soucy. besides
the four veteran guards and tackles Pen
rock. Trumbull, Hitchcock and Storer,
Harvard has a splendid start for It's line.
and Gilman and Cowan both look like
varsity line timber. In the backfeld
there will not be the wealth OF material
that has been with the squad the last
few seasons but what there is Is good
and there is enough of II TO 90 through
any ordinary season.
Percy Haughton will have practically
the same staff of assistant coaches he
has had for the last few seasons Charley
DAILY. however, has gone back to coach at
West Point. Daily did some good work
with the quarterbacks, and also helped
out tremendously on mapping out the
Crimsons offence. Leo Ieary will be
Haughton's right-hand man, while Fish
or. guard and captain two years ago. will
be In charge of bringing the rushlne
along.
II is expected that Dick Wigglesworth
will be available to coach the quarter
backs, while Reggie Brown will continue
as the man 20 follow Yale and to equip
the Crimson with it's final defence for the
championship game. Former Captain
Wendell, Gil Browne. Crawford Blagden,
I.othrop and Paul wilmington will be
among the other assistant coaches this
year, with the possible addition of Par
menter. last years centre, and Ham Cor
bett. who did lot OF backfield coaching
last fall.
Harvard's schedule will not be as hard
as the one arranged In 1912, there being
no game against Dartmouth. The Prince
ton game. at Princeton. will be played a
week later than for the last two years,