Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-24
COACHING system
At YALE MAY BE ]
CHANGED

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. That tha
present Yale coaching system of In
yiting the present captain to como
back and act as head coach for the
year after his leadership OF the team
will be given up ana that an expert.
eneed graduate who Is also q close
student Of the game win come back
as head coach and that Walter Camp
will give more .ofshis attention to the
actual coaching Of the eleven while
ne will not be an active coach him
self was the fofecast 81 the graduate
players and coaches who were invited
mere to attend the Yale coaching con-
ference at the Hotel Taft.
5 Whatever the. outcome OF the con-
terence, the word: OF Capt. Ketcham
viii be law for next year, and so will
the word of all his successors. Gradu-
ates can converse and talk. but the
word OF the captain is law, and this
will be continued In Yale football
Graduates are only advisers and the
captain is always willing to listen to
ais advisers
For the position Of each head coach
there are three names which stand
out above all others, and each of the
three has been available during the
past few monthe and probably all are
now. these are Frank Hinkley, twice
captain bf the Yale team, an end on
the All-American team for all time
aud an experienced coach; Fudge Hef.
felfinger. who In published state
ment is considered by Walter Camp
the greatest football player OF all
time, and Howard H. Jones. head
coach of Capt. .Coy's championship
football team OF the fall of 1909, the
last that Yale men have seen, and
who was also head coach of SYRIA
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The report has been spread among
Yale graduates that Howard Jones
would not accept the head coach po-
sition, but within a month Howard
Jones has given assurance that he
would. 1t Is known that Heffelfinger
would be willing to come back He
came East this fall and spent week
with the linemen, esI1cially the
guards and centers, but had to return
% the West. Hinkey is in Kansas,
and the only thing which could pos
;ibly keep him from coming back as
head coach, { IL the call went to him,
would be his health, which, however,
it is understood here has improved
greatly during the; past three years.
All three of the men are linemen.
IloffaIffno-S y,lo,yoE1 ODD aa-kor
while Jones and Hinkey played in the
end position. 1t is pointed out that
Eeffelfinger graduated over twenty
wars ago Hinkey over fifteen, but
against this 1t is also urged that both
lave followed the game with close
ness which would be commendable
even for promising member Of an
active squad Whenever Hinkey has
been back. which has not occurred
for the last two years, he has per
snnally coached the men, while when
Heffelfinger was here this fall he got
down in the dirt and showed the can
jidates how to play their positions
with all the fire of Shevlin.
Heffelfinger was formerly in bust
ness in the West and five years ago
would not have accepted the position,
but business reverses now make him
a receptive candidate, though unwill-
irg to urge his own qualities. 1t is
not necessary that he should, however,
for this is being done for him by John
E. 0wsley, head coach of Shevlin's
team, and John w. Field, head coach
of Days team. In this connection
it is interesting to know that Field
was urged as a good man for the. po-
sition, but before the movement Sgot
very far he personally gave it a
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