New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
prichard and Merrillat, of
Forward Pass Fame,
Must Be Replaced.
ELEVEN THIS YEAR
CALLED BEST EVER
More than 100000 Persons See
Harvard in Action on Grid
iron, Setting New Record.
By HERBERT.

By HERBERT.
The Army football eleven will lose
FIVE OF it's strongest players when the
first class is graduated next June
The backfield will be cut to pieces as
Captain Prichard, Hodgson, Van Fleet
and Benedict have played their last
game for West Point, while Merrillat,
the forward pass king" will also be
missed.
The line, with the exception of Mer-
rillat. will be intact, and with six eX-
perienced forwards, 10 say nothing of
Coffin, . first string back and 4 num-
Der OF able substitutes, the Army
coaches will not lack for nucleus
around which TO build afresh.
The loss of Prichard and Merrillat,
about the strongest forward pass
combination ever developed, the first
"to send" the second "to receive" will
be a serious one, but not necessarily
fatal, as other men are in training TO
MI the gap.
Lieutenant Charles D. DAILY, of the
Sd Field Battery. who has been head
coach of the team for two years, left
yesterday for Fort Sam Houston, Tex,
TO reJOln MS COiHHldHu. "uoN DNAN'N
leaving, he said:
"The Army football team as a whole
is considered by the coaches as the
best ever turned out at West Point.
ave are unwilling to admit that any
team in the country could beat IT.
Much Of the credit for its remarkable
efficiency is due the position
coaches, who worked so hard and faith
fully to give q lot of earnest players
the necessary weapons for attack and
defence"
Lieutenant Days assistants this
year were Captain Graves. Captain
Sultan, Leutenants Hammond, Pullen,
Thompson, Hayes, Stearns and Stllwell
Alexander Weyand, the newly elected
captain of the West Point team, Is
we'll equipped to handle the eleven
next fall. Besides being one Of the
best tackles of the year he is gifted
with those qualities which stamp
real leader. His selection was happy
one.
Without meaning to emphasize the
commercial end of football il rs inter
esting TO note that on unofficial figures
more than 100000 persons saw the
Harvard football team play nine games
this fall. and that the total receipts
were in excess of S3O0,OOO, of when
the Crimson's share was something
over Sl50,000. -,
The figures were compiled by "The
Boston Journal" as follows:
"The Harvard management realized
before the season began $4,000 from
the sale of about 1900 season tickes TO
the general public at So each. Ihese
tickets were good for all games played
by the Crimson except those WIN
Princeton and Yale. Then about 2,O0O
II. A. A. tickets, which are issued oniy
TO the Harvard students at 80 each,
were sold, adding $4,000 to the re-
ceipts. .o-ooo
"The Michigan game brought s35'OoO
into the treasury, the Princeton game
added $4,000 more and the Yale game
brought in $4,000, making the total
for the season more than 100000. The
Harvard management split or gave lib
eral guarantees at all the games, but
the Cambridge treasury has from
$50. 900 to $4,000 as its part OF the
receipts for the whole season"
The Lehigh football team will lose
only two players by graduation next
June-Captain Hoban, right haltback,
and Fred Green, at left end. Canal,
the brilliant halfback, has two more
years to play and may be elected cap
tain when the IL" men meet next week.
Sawtelle is being considered also, out
Cahall appears to have the call
Frank Hinkey, head coach Of the
Yale team, and Talbot, captain THIS
year, journeyed to Hamilton, Ont, on
Saturday TO see a Canadian Rugby
game. This points the way to further
development Of the passing game by
the Blue eleven next fall
Through mistake Rutgers was
credited with winning only four games
in The Tribune yesterday, when the
record should have read won nve, lost
three, tied one.
The "Yale Alumni Weekly" in the
c,rrent issue comments on the Harvard
game and winds up with well merited
praise for Frank Hinkey and his meth
DDS in saying:
"Frank Hinkey this fall began
three-year connection as head coach Oh
Yale football an arrangement wnlch
we trust will not limit the undergrad
mates in their use of his advice TO that
sport alone. His programme had 70 DO
with the OlmCuit ldSh VI puiiN'hb
new Yale football coaching system and
Of inauguratiug football game which
would meet the requirements Of touch
downs and result in game interesting
alike 20 player and spectator. IL was
hard and uphill task, but we believe
that foundation was laid upon which
ne may now build with strong hopes OF
a solid success later. The keystone Of
this has been the open game as opposed
10 the traditional slam-bang game, and
the justification for il unquestionably
is 10 be found in its success with pub
lie and players alike until, with com
psratively green team 20 play IT liale's
only line veterans we're the left end
and tackle). we met probably the
strongest Harvard team, playing one OF
the strongest old-style attacks, that
ever ripped and ploughed and banged
its way through a Yale eleven. Our
confidence in the new system which
has been started this year is not IN the
least sbated by the results last Satur-
day; given the material which we must
find in the undergraduate body, and a
steady persistence on the lines laid
down this year. a successful Yale foot