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WHO WON HARVARD SUCCESS
Answer as TO Eleven Victories May
Not Come Until Next Year.
SOME 'TFs' DURING SEASON
Dopester- New Busy Pointing out
why Certain Teams MA Not
Achieve Certain results at
Certain Times.


players that was responsible for Harvard
great showing during the last thre,
seasons.
The answer to this question probably
win be found in the 1o15 season. when
Haughton. a. coach. Will be put to a
real test Harvard opens the 1915 season
with Mahan. Soucy. Parsons and one OF
two more left OF the greet machine which
swept through 20 championship in 1915
and 1914. Brickiey will be gone, HardwicIS
will DO gone, Pennock Bradlee. JEFF Col
lidEe, FRANKIE, Trumblll, Logan and a
half dozen others who carried the Crimson
standard to victory in the past will be
gone. Haughton must build anew. And
that will be the test.
II Harvard has a championship team In
1915. Il will mean that II was Haughton 8
wonderful coaching skill that was re-
sponsible for Harvards record during the
last three years. for II HaughtoD. with
poor prospects. builds a machine in 1915
that whiris onward TO victory, then no one
can deny that II was Haughton's teach
ing power and not Individual provinces
of the players that was responsible for
Harvard's past triumphs
But n Harvard fails In i915-if Harvard
minus Brickley. Hardwlck, Pennock and
others does not show then II would seem
that Il was the players. not the Haughton
Hyptem, that won for Harvard IN the last
three years.
Many VIII watch Harvard.
The Harvard showing in 1915 will be
watched with much interest
The trouble with Princeton last season
may have been because Of the poor teach
ing OF the coaches, but there is no duck
ing the fact that Princeton had one woe
fully weak spot in its makeup. And that
was at quarterback position. Ames. who
acted as the regular quarterback. is not
Of varsity caliber. His father. snake"
Annes was a famous Princeton foot ball
player. but his son never will rise TO his
fathers heights,
Young Ames showed a certain amount
Of generalship during the season, but no
wonderful amount, as In required from a
varsity quarterback. Ames played back
on the defensive He. was only fair at
catching ppnts and ne was mighty poor
at running them back. lie Is fair wig
gler, a fair dodger. But he starts slowly
and he cannot throw Off tacklers.
Further than this. Aines seemed too
light In these modern foot ball days
Quarterback very often has to take
Amash at the line. Ames tried Il several
times In the big games and Ames was
tossed back as though he were bundle
OF tissue paper. AS an end runner Ames
showed up fair, but there are hundred
quartsrbacka in the country whose work
was better than that of Ames.
they took out Ames, in the fourth
period Of the Yaie-Princeton game and
nut Click In at quarterback. The score
then was Yale, 10; Princeton. o. Tho
game ended Yale. 10: Princeton, ~ It
was Clicks generaIship ut quarterback
that enabled Princeton TO score. Click
drove his backs against the weak spots
IN the Yale line. He picked them out In
stinctivoly.
Might Have Changed score.
Had Click been quarterback through
out that Yale-Princeton game the scofA
might have been far different.
Lloyd Bietzer, end on the Mount Union
(Ohio) eleven. established a record in
1919 that never will be beaten. Thirty
seven times he was called upon 70 kick q
goal after touchdown and thirty-aeven
times his unerrtng boot shot the ball over
the cross bar Ho went into Mount
Unions final game OF that season with a
record Of twenty-seven straight goals
His team made ten touohdowns against
Wooster that day and ten times did
BletEer come through with a goal. many
Of them kicked from extremely difficult
angles.
Hlesxer hasn't been heraIded very much
for his accomplishment because he at
tends one OF the so-caIled small colleges.
Had he accomplished the same feat for
Yale. Harvard or Princeton, he probably
would get himself Photographed and in
terviewed as often a. one Charles
Brickley.
Bletxer. who IL six feet three inches
tall, is wonderful puntef as well. He
has long legs ana he follows each kick
through to the limit OF his leg swing
tht1 giving his kicks the maximum dis
tance.
The All-American. ALEastern ana An
Western selections are now all IN. Ana
after lamplng the several thousand selec-
lions made here and there, Il win ha
seen that nearly every selection is ar
ferent There was less unanlrnitv ~
opinion this year than In any year In
which folks have been picking the
mythical eievens.
This was due 10 the fact that the las,
loot bail season brought to the fore 4
greater flock OF players than any Other
season Yet II failed to devotion any one
player who stood head and shoulder.
anoTe all others- About fifty foot ballera
were given consideration this year vyben
the selections were made. All were about
n the same class. Picking cat eleven
from these fifty showed wide differ-
enca OF opinion.
Many peculiar explanations wern a.
Tered BY some o. the experts for r.,,,n.
their selections. One gent. when az
cnsslnE his All-American team. asla ,n.,
fosne the Illinois halfback. was ~
greatest halfbaek IA the game. b,,, a.,
no couldn't give him a place on nj. am
Amsrican eleven because Poeue wa. an,
g Two games on account o. ini,.,~-
inen this chap Immediately etv.- 49,
en ne rirst All-Ameriean 70 Mahan -
fsnnock OF Harvard. who were ON, !,
we same over Iensthier stretch Of TIM
than Pogue. u un'e
Exporting. as regards foot bail 4.
funnT' funny Sob.
Mash aAd Peraue 20 Go.
Kenneth Nash. Hay state I..s.,..
Slr pe tre9ed oy Miller HuEgins "a ~
y. louis CARDINALS before sDrinr fre,is