The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-09
CRIDIRON men
HARD AT WORK
Football Practice Now Under
Full Blast at Colleges.
HARVARD TO SET THE PACE.
Tactics of Crimson Men Are Sure to Be
Followed by Majority of Teams This
Observation-Disclosures Outlook Is Bright.
Yale In Trouble.

Followed by Majority of Teams This
Season-Princeton Outlook Is Bright.
Yale In Trouble.
Football practice is now in full blast
at every big university and college In
the east and in the west =
There were fewer instances than
usual this year where college football
coaches called out their candidates as
early as Sept. 1. Summer football prac-
tee has gone out of fashion. and now
it is neither considered fair nor neces-
sary. Most coaches are beginning to
appreciate the wisdom of Mike Muir |
ply, the former Yale and PennsyIva-
mia trainer, when he declared that ten |
weeks was long enough for any team |
to get in shape. Colleges which vio- |
late the ethics of the game or disre-
gard the common sense rules of train
ing by doing summer work do SO at
their peril.
OF the big six''-Yale. Harvard, |
Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell and
Dartmouth-the first to get under way
were Yale and Dartmouth. They were
closely followed by Princeton, Penn
sylvania, Harvard and Cornell. Most
of the minor colleges, including the
Army and Navy, have been at work
for some weeks.
OF these teams Princeton suffers
least from graduation. The Tigers
have back every one of their 1913 vet
Grams with the exception of ex-Captain
HOBBY Baker at halfback and Phillips
Mt tackle. Harvard misses only three
men from her championship team. but
! for their places there is a host of sub
/ stitutes. Yale is much the hardest hit
! of the eastern elevens. six of the 1918
| regulars being missed. Dartmouth
must find men to fill four regular
! berths. while Cornell and Pennsylvania
| are in about the same condition.
Harvard promises to set the pace for
| the eastern college world. The sue
cess of the Crimson last year was so
remarkable that their football machine
| and their tactics will be copied as far
as possible. At the same time their
three strongest opponents. which this
year will be Yale. Princeton and Mich
igan. will bend every energy toward
defeating them. To win from Har.
ward will be glory enough for any
team. The activity at Yale and Prince
ton to overcome Harvard is little short
of desperation this fall.
The Harvard squad is unusually welf
fortified to meet this opposition. The
/ great offensive and defensive machine
which won the gridiron championship
for the Crimson last year is still intact.
Therefore the only way to beat this
combination is for some of Harvards
opponents to build up Il stronger at
tack or for Harvard to be weakened
through Overconfdence or injuries.
Seventy five per cent of Harvard's
strength last fall lay in its wonderful
back field. quartet of men who are
about as dangerous on the gridirOn us
a machine gun on a modern1battlelield.
These four men. older and more ex-
perienced than when they did their
greatest execution, are back again
This back field consisted OF Logan
at quarterback. Bradee and Nathan
at halfbacks and Captain Brickley ut
fullback. A fifth name should almost
he added to this back field. because
Hardwick, who played right end in
the last two games alternated between
end and halfback on defense and Of
Tense. He too, is out for the team.
OF this back field Brickley and Nathan
are the most dangerous. Brickley stood
without an equal as Il goal kicker. and
, his ability to drop kick or place kick
10 Il onulo i'm, bn fro
yard line meant that with him in the
lineup there was always Il chance to
&. win. But in addition to these useful
employments he could run the ends
plunge through the lines and operate
the forward pass with equal skill.
e But it is q mistake to assume that
( all of Harvard's back field strength
/ centered in Brickley, for Mahan was
= not far behind BrickIey in any ot
: these accomplishments. AS an oper
T field runner Mahan was the best OF
o any eastern gridiron, wonderfully eff
y fective in returning punts and making
u end runs. So swiftly did he move anC
Il dodge tacklers that he frequently raj
5 the bali back greater distance thar
the punt he received.
$ Harvard's only losses from the frs
d string men were the left side of thu
IS line. The veterans who must be re
e placed are O'Brien at end. ex Captain
V Storer at tackle and Hitchcock a
e guard. Not many coaches like to los
a an entire wing in this fashion. because
II while the new men may be as stron;
individually as those whose places the.
fill, the defensive strength Of the team
lies largely in the ability of these mel
IN 10 play together.
Il Yale labors under a double difficult
10 Shis year. Not only must the Ellis nd
a. just themselves to Il new coaching sys
m TEN. with new men in charge. but the
90 must rebuild nearly half their team
~ Frank Hinkey is the new coach II