The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-08
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YALE WANTS FIVE
RESIDENT COACHES
PLAN WILL GIVE COACH FOB
PRACTICALLY EVERY POSI-
TON ON TEAM.

| NEW HAVEN. Feb. .7.--If the pres
! ent plans of the Yale football man
agement are carried out there Will De
Ave resident coaches for the eleven
the coming fall. outside the freshman
staff The quintet whom head coach
Frank Httfkey and Captain Nelson
| Talbot are eager to secure are: Ben
Avery, end rush: Nat Wheeler. guar
terback; Doc Cornish, quarter and
halfhack; John Pendleton, tackle and
guard. and Bill Marting. center.
The list includes three linemen and
two backs There Is coach for
really every position on the team. leav-
strategy, and DIR. Billy Bull for the
punting and drop kicking, aside from
the frequent drill by such masters OF
their position, as Burr Chamberlain,
Jack Field, r. n. Biglow, Carl Fland-
ers, and Ralph Bloomer. Fudge Hef-
felfinger will be here from Minneapolis
for several weeks. and Others for
shorter periods.
The consent of Pendleton, Cornish
and Marting has not been secured. be
cause of other plans. or the need OF
securing parental consent. 1t Is ex-
pected. however, that there will be no
doubt Of the consent OF any OF them.
Wheeler and Avery have accepted
the invitation to return.
The plan TO remove from the side
lines even the head coaches, is thor
oughly endorsed at Yale. Reports at
Yale indicate that there was much Sc
cret coaching by head coaches last
fall that was illegal, but that could
not be detected. There are indications
that at one or two universities the
method of signaling out from the
eiaelnes to the elevens by means Of
poses was adopted by head coaches,
after the manner of certain big league
baseball managers or coaches One
prominent head coach repeatedly
Emitted his position and the locations
of his hands with every play by his
team, and did not change 1t till the
next play, fact that was notably
suspicious Added TO this fact is the
added element of suspicion that. al
though the quarterback did not face
this head coach before every success
sive play, but that some other member
of the eleven did. and Yale men who
noted the coincidence are inclined 10
the belief that the player who turned
to the head coach really coached the
quarterback before he gave the final
signal for the next play,
The canvass of university eleven
captains made by the Yale News
disclosed the fact that, in most in
stances there is a tendency to regard
the letter of the rule prohibiting
/ coaching from the sidelines, several
team captains asserting that no ef-
j fort whatever was made by the head
coaches to send out communications
I in any form to the players during the
! game, and that the activities Of the
! head coach were limited to decisions
! Of the time and number of substitu-
/ tons.
/ Want New Rule.
/ It ia firmly believed at Yale that
new rule will either be made by the
intercollegiate football rules commit
tee at its coming session prohibiting
coaching from the sidelines. or that
an agreement will be made by the
universities that the exact spirit of
+ the present rule will be observed,
abolishing the practice which has
been begun of coaching through an
attitude presented or pose struck
by some coach at whom some member
OF the eleven looks.
This is practice that js not In
accord with the spirit of sport as felt
10y most of the alumni. undergraduates
and faculty, and the influence of
Yale at the coming meetings of the
committee will be manifested in an
effort to discard the policy that has
crept into important football games
1t is now known that. as usual,
Walter Camp will represent Yale at
the coming sessions of the football
rules committee. He has said that
he hopes that only minor revisions
of the present rules will be attempted
but that the position of field judge
will be restored, Camp is heartily in
favor Of the restoration of the open
style OF game. and will urge a mum
her of minor changes, which will tend
oflteep it open. Yales style of play
will swing strongly toward forward
passes another season, as is indicated
by much of the winter practice. After
the close of cage work the coming
week the cadets will be dismissed
till regular spring drill begins In
April