The Washington herald., 1914-12-02
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The doctor also advised that weIehonce refrain
from any. strenuous exercises next Deason. With
this in view and wanting 70 help out his faithful
captain aEAin. Manager Smith has appointed him
umpire for the spring games.
Harry has about closed for 4 bench managers
berth with the Greensboro team. Of the Carolina
league. In this capacity he can still be connected
with the profeSSon that he loves, though he will
Welchonoe has been improving rapidly under
the careful treatment he has been getting and II Is
believed that with q years rest he will be ready To
don the spangles oneo more.
Manager Smith will secure psfnision from the
other southern League clubs to release welchonce.
50 he can take the managerial berth.
The New Yort ETening Post football expert ranks
the big college teams follows: First, Harvard
second. Army; third. Dartmouth; fourth. Cornell
nfth, Yale; sixth. Princeton: seventh. Washington
and jefferson; eighth, Pittsburgh; ninth. Pennsyl-
VAniA State; tenth. syraczlse; eleventh. Pennsyl-
The Army is entitled to second place because her
o1ense vas better rounded than that o. any other
team save Harvard. Dartmouth Is third because the
power she misuSsd in the Princeton game APP
piled to better purpose In Subsequent contests Cor
nelis undOubted Offensive strength entities her,
believe. to fourth plAce. Yale sets fifth place for
her play against Princeton when the Blue at
its best Harvard had opportunity at Princeton To
learn q lot about the Hi attack. Had Princeton
played all she did in the fourth quarter Of
the Yale game she would be rzted much higher than
sixth place. Pittsburgh. Penn State and Syracuse
all played excellent football most Of the SsasOu but
Pennsylvania and the Navy were far blow their
usual standard.
The Yale Alumni Weekly in the current issue COM
ments on the Harvard game and winds up with we'll
merited praise for Frank Hinkey and his methods in
saying:
Frank HinkeJ this fall beEln a three-year con
nection head cnsch Of Yale foothaH-an arrange
ment which Trust will not limit the under
graduates in their Of his advice 10 that sport
alone. His program had TO do with the difficult
task Of building a Yale football coaching sys-
TEN and of inauEuatinE = football game which
would meet the requirements OF toIchdowns and
result in game interesting alike to player and
spectator. It a hand and uphill task but we
believe that foundation laid upon which he
may nov build with strong hopes Of a solid succrss
later. The keystone II this has been the opcn-
game opposed TO the traditional slam hang game
and the Justification for it unquestionably Is TO be
found in its with public and players alike
until. with a comparatively green team to play Il
(Iale's only line veterans the left end aud
tackled. met probably the strongest Harvard
team. playing Of the strongest od-stye attacks
that ever ripped and plouGhed and banged its way
through Yale eleven. Our conhdencs in The nea
the least ahstnd by the results last Saturday given
the material which must find in the underEr1dn-
ate body. and steady perSisencs on the lines laid
down this wear. q successful Yale football erz is
bound "a come"