Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

can hit without confidence.
There is more sorrow over the topped
drive than the missed putt vet the for
mer often costs but half a stroke the
latter a whole one
That an infinite variety of PLAY Is nee
essary for the success of team is a
pure myth II is the wise varying of a
rev strong PLAYS worked with precision
that Kills any defense.
Foot ball is. after all. the truly demo-
cratic game You--dignfied and sedate
Under other circumstances-feel even on
the way TO the game the prctinss and
Silrglngs of some wicked irspiration As
non as YOU hear the cheering and sing
Ha You know that you are going to for
* yourself. and. on the whole. YOU
~ much care if You do The game
Ems You lean forward in Your seat
you are man YOU forget your cigar;
'iu tread upon the foot of Your neigh
- As the game becomes exciting -our
Try character seems to be altering YOU
stamp and howl. words spring from YOUR
Fps quite unnoticed by yourself; yod
nl:sh quite unconsciously against those
opposite YOU: you may even seize them
" the arm without knowing who or
what they are. AT times You kick with
of YOU. You find yourself responding to
strange rhythm of song or a cheer
You do not care whether the grandstand
collapses or not.
Now. why is all this? A distinguished
English writer says that 1t has a per-
fectly reasonable and solid ground and
that it is caused by your watching
combination of extraordinary powers
numbers and individualities. such as you
could never fashion for yourself. There
are twenty-five men before you. each
oicked with extreme care. for particu-
'ai reason. One man because he is
swift, one man because he is full Of
guile. the third because he is heavy and
powerful. the fourth because he is agile
and utterly courageous. The writer goes
farther. Let moral qualities enter into
the causes for selection One man must
not be selfish. The second must not be
Jealous. all must be sood-tempered. col
lected in mind and utterly fearless.
These men are not merely individuals,
but parts of an organism greater than
themselves. to which they must be sub
servient. A mystical personality present
In its entirety not in one individual but
in them all together. In addition there
fore to the dash and fire Of the game.
there is the calculating. deliberate spirit
as of chess. with this difference. that all
the players are alive. sentient and eager.
banded together not for personal glory.
IN fact. with every argument against 1t.
lotto accomplish some task in an IN
animate thing but to accomplish tast
IN the teeth of an equal number of equal
~ trained. equally Jealous equally re-
.,tricted and equally inspired persons.
chosen with as much care as themselves
and pledged by their name and their
presence for precisely an opposite end
September will see the start o. the pre-
rminary training in the foot bah camps.
There will be far more men taking part
;y this early worl; than ever before. for
The season is short one and many OF
the early games are of character to be
much more exact;ng on the teams than
has been the ease in anv other season.
The Yale team. under Coach Hinkey,
will have snuad of some thirty players
assembled at Madison. the Connecticut
shore. the end of the first week in Sep
ternber. The line decimated BY grad
ration last Jure. and there is much work
- he done. There is some good. prom
Zinc material hut the hulk of it is COM
-.,seei of backtield candidates. and the
= ficu1t ioh is to produce linemen Of
.al5ber. DIR. Bun Will have charge of the
'-'ekers and is to assume his new DO
ition as general medical advisor to the
-thletic teams foot ball included this
Harvard and Princeton also will start
eHrly and Harvard's star drop-kicker.
= ckley. is said to be keeping his hand.
rather his foot. in form in CharlOttes-
III" coaching Virginia. which win have
- first chance at Yale this year. Penn.
--'iarr Erooke is assiduously planning its
fnnaicn to retrieve the defeat by Cor
nell while Sharpe out at Ithaca will
coon be working Just as hard to prepare
his men 10 hold this position.
Coach Duff. the former Princeton guard.
whose work with the University of Pitts
hureh foot hall team last season was so
Elective. already has given orders for
The assembling of the squad at Wirdber
IN early September. and proposes to have
- per cent more Ypen in the preliminary
than forty men have had instructions to
report. and II The weather Is propitous
they viii settle down to hard work early
Pittsburgh defeated Cornell last year
IN to : and also made away with the
Carlisle Indians. Il to s. both feathers ir
Coach DGffs cap.
The Washington and Jefferson team
which played Yale to tie last year. is
booking forward tn one of the mos
-triEinl; wears in its foot hall history
srtcgel who earned his place on tho
second all-American team last season
aud who in an ordinary wear of back
fel'i men would have made a position OF
~" first. promises To show as great scor.
ing possibilities he did last year
Coach Folwell will call out his charges
curly In September and the indication:
now that his squad will be first
class one. Those who followed the team
s7st wear viii remember the placement
licking abilities of the big tackle. Patter
IN. and are looking to some stat
TX again tnlS year from Urls payer
- sides playing Yale to tie last season
x team defeated Penn State II to o ant
'..isburgh 10 to 6.
most interesting study of western
.thods in foot ball will be furnished
S season by the work of Walter Stef
~ at Carnegie Tech. Steffen was al
American Quarterback of the Univer
-F of Chicago team, and has since as
ed Coach Stage with the work at tn
-crsity of Chicago. He already ha
died the spring practice of Carnegi
j and begins the first of Septembe
regular fan work. Steffen was on
The best men on the gridiron at tn
.-ution of the forward pass, ard It i
'.,n that his team any team tina
cached by him. VIII have some In
ting PLAYS III its repertoire. Tech !
ore of tine big teams, but is usin
;,alI as developer OF am
~. a;.d the kind of game taught h.
fcu is exactly what is needed.
auth VIII ne served This is TIL
-5,.lN riting the wall looming up al
o. limo in tho vision Of amy forne