The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-29

Pentleld VIII Be Main Executive, With
Ames and Herring to Give Advice.
Haughton Will Continue to Be Su-
preme at Harvard-Frank Hinkey
Will Command Yale Eleven.
With the intercollegiate football sea-
son getting under way attention is
drawn to the different coaching sys-
TENS that will be tried by the big
universities. OF course there is al
ways a contrast in the playing tech
nique, but this year there is evidence
of independent and progressive think
ing in the way in which Harvard,
Princeton, Yale and a number of the
other colleges are attacking the prob
lem of getting the maximum of etti
cheney out of the material ut hand.
1t is true that the task ut Cambridge
seems easy. merely because it is simply
a question of leaving HaughtOn alone.
but more than one college in the past
has had Il good thing and proved in
capable Of resisting the temptation of
trying to improve it at the expense of
vital parts. Long experience with a
vacillating football policy should have
made Harvard tolerant of continued
rule even though but average success
had been encountered. And with the
football leadership of the country at
tanned, through the splendid directing
powers of Z. d. Haughton. it is no
wonder that the authorities at Cam
bridge are entirely content to leave
everything in his hands.
The absolutism of Haughton is not
the kind which expresses itself in
terms so blunt that it can be heard
outside the stadium, but nevertheless
it is the most complete domination
which prevails at any of the large
eastern football centers.
Princeton is trying something entire
ly new in the annals of directing foot
ball tactics. Two years ago. with LO-
gan Cunningham in charge. the Tigers
won the championship. Cunningham
had not been out of college long. but he
had an old head on a young pair of
shoulders and a remarkable faculty for
directing men. .s
Cunningham was unable to return
last fall, so Princeton put two other
youngsters in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
Andrews. This combination. as Il di-
recting force, did not prove capable of
meeting the co-ordinated attack which
had been evolved at Cambridge and
did not distinguish itself against Yale.
So this year the Tigers are trying an
entirely new policy and one which on
the face of things gives splendid prom
Use of success.
Instead Of having a youngster rs the
tactician and executive the orange and
black has made it plain that the bur
den Of strategy must be allowed to
rest with older heads, the coach being
merely the instrument for carrying out
instructions. Penied is the man Sc
lected as executive, but it is clearly
understood that the strategic RESPONSE
bilities must be allowed to rest with a
board of older heads made up Of vet
Grams of Princeton football. with
Snake Ames and Don Herring as the
two leading lights,
Following her usual custom of pro-
ceedmg on a cooperative coaching
basis. Yale, with Frank Hinkcy in
charge. will try to fuse all her wealth
of coaching abilities into a concerted
effort capable of accomplishing the de-
feat Of Princeton and Harvard. There
is no such plain agreement at New
Haven as has been laid down at Prince
ton with regard to the division Of re-
SponSibilities. TheOreticaly-and ac-
tually If he cares to take the situation
into his own hands-the undergraduate
captain is still king ut New Haven.
And, as regards the coaching, the gen
eral proposition is that all football
graduates who want to help the team
are welcome at New Haven. where as
far as advancing football theories is
concerned, every coach enjoys the
democratic opportunities referred to hy
the Irish politician when he said that
"iy'ry man is rs good as another and
darn sight better" Of course when
1t comes to handing out theories for un-
dergraduate consumption Frank Hin
key can be counted upon MS the deter.
mining factor. but his attitude is as fan
removed from that of Haughton al
Harvard ms it is from that of Penfield
at Princeton.