Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
COACH ELCOCK REVIEWS
Wa |. FOOTBALL SEASON
Explains How Team Was Developed
and Why Eleven Appar-
emily Slowed Up.
RESERVE PLAYERS STRENGTH
Result in Big Games More Important
Than Running Up Large Counts
Against Small Colleges-Words of
Praise for Captain Donahue.
RESERVE PLAYERS STRENGTH
BY WALTER n. ELCoCK.

i.ESiNGTON. VA, December 12.-In
son ofi1914. 1t is my desire to explain
TN some. measure the aims of the
coaches In deveioping the Washington
schedule 1t can he easily seen that it
was necessary to develop and condi-
ton team. in the short space OF four
weeks. which would be able to beat
Georgetown, team which year In and
year out has always been one of the
best teams OF the South.
After this hnd been accomplishe ed.
the schedule called for one easy game
and three hard games before facing
y. G. ~, at Norfolk. Now some criti,
cism has been made of the Washington
failed to win the games Intervening
between Georgetown and A. & N. be
large scores To these criticisms r
coaches purposely loafed The team
along for period of almost FIVE
weeks because OF the fear of the team
not realizd what n serious matter that
Is. and / want to say now that men
most capable Of judging, and who saw
the A. & NJ. game one year ago. that
the trouble was not so much overcon-
hdence as many people think. but a
lac lack &, OF Pc condition TIC on the part of the
. BY lack of condition. ] mean, that
f fnem mad been brought TO- their top
tempting to avoid such Ii a st state Of ar ar
fairs, possibly the team was not worked
hard enough during the time between
but to my mind. too little work is
vastly better than too much work.
Marshall College First Opponents.
The season started with Marshall
Coiiege. husky aggregation. with a
fair knowledge, Of defensive football.
this game the team was very ragged,
as Is very often the fault In an opening
game ga Next game the game with Nor
team was sent out to make hundred
points. and In making three over that
number IN IL Just st. about odt, ran true toform.
gained n little ground by the use OF the
short. quick. forward pass. This pass
can gain ground consistently against
midfeld... and the tackles forget to
charge the end, as they did on that
day, but the tackles who were playing
rot Shultz and Miles.
The play is nSsgsr successful when
used near the goal line. because then
the secondary defense Is drawn up close
came the game with Roanoke College,
and as / was away at Georgetown on
that day. am not able to say much
gain little ground through our line
because they. had an excellent line
breaking full back. and because tho
lege and Morris Harvey had not given
the coaches n chance to criticize tho
defensive play of the line.
Then Comes the big Games.
Coming. now. to the more important
part of the schedule, Georgetown was
next. After the first five minutes of
play. when. owing to an unfortunate
tumble, Georgetown had the ball in
chance. AT the end of the game, when
GEORGETOWN was Stacking up. Wash
fngton and Lee was~still going at top
speed, and those who have watched the
pretty fast. The condition of the team
was excellent. Georgetown made some
gains through the line by the use of
an an, old style yien mass play which Ia DIFF
men dive In end grab legs After the,
coaches had chance between the
Ealves, to explain what to do. George
following Saturday Wake Forest, the
team which North Carolina had tough
time beating IL to 2. was encountered.
1t being, the last home game of the
top speed in order to show the student,
body just how good they were. The
score Of. ~ to 0 tells the story for it
showed himself badly oyertrained,I and
this fact started the coaches to worry
ing. and II was decided to stop attempt
Ing to drive the team, and let them loaf
winning the next three games, rather
than have stale team, on our hands
when 1t came time to play a. 6, M.
Against Had Combination. fC 4
When we came to play W PM. we
were up against bad combination.
Everything broke as bad as 1t possibly
could, In spite Of warnings our team
out, on account of an unfortunate mis-