Evening star., 1914-10-04

| capt. Rainsford and Coach Yost are
hard at work on the development of
the Michigan team for it's great match
| with Harvard, and in spite of the loss
| OF some of his good men, Yost has an
air OF confidence that shows what he
thinks of his material. He has clever
is working Splawn into line plunger
with all the force of former Michigan
| backs. Catlet and Vault make up the
balance of his first string backs. and
| with his typical 'hurry-up" principle
| he is getting lot of force and dash
| in them. Michigan and Notre Dame are
| somewhat eclipsing in interest Chicago
and Minnesota. owing to the fact that
| these two teams have big eastern con-
tests this year. Nevertheless it should
be borne in mind that Chicago, under
Coach Stagg. came to it's own last year,
and although suffering a serious loss
| in the graduation of Capt. Norgren,
viii make a strong effort to keep at
the top. great advantage will be the
holding of Des Jardien at center He
was the best man in the pivotal posi-
t1on on the gridiron last year, and
should carry considerable assistance
| must build up. They have good
freshman in Albert, who is a big
fellow and fast man. Minnesota. un-
der Coach Williams. has always de-
year or two has been somewhat short
of star material. 1t is reported that.
this year he is going to enter the field
with no more than four veterans. Wis
consin carried over most of her men.
and while losing star All-America
! tack !e the rest of the positions are
niled. Indiana is going to start out
with. a Yale coach. Childs, formerly
captain OF the Yale track. team and
varsity foot bail player, a man who
should do well. Northwestern, under
Capt Hightower. has as coach in MUIR
pny, former Yale backf1eld man, one
OF the cleverest of players and a man
who ought to be a very successful
coach. McDevitt, the old Yale guard.
is gong to help him, and, given good
material. they should turn out a fine
team. Illinois has hopes of going up
into better position than for some
somewhat upon the fact that Minnesota
and Wisconsin are both weakened by
the loss of such players as Solon and
Shaughnessy from the former. and
suite, Sutier and Tanberg from the latter.
Illinois takes on Wisconsin for the first
time in nearly ten years.
There is no such complete organiza-
ton for carrying on the work of the
foot ball season as that at Cambridge
and 1t is evident, now that Haushton
has agreed to go on. he means to see
that all the other strings are properly
attended to and made to continue along
with his arrangement Next to having
part of Harvards organized work has
been that of Reggie Brown, whose
duties have been to observe and ana
lyze the plays of Harvard's principal
enable the Harvard team to be pre-
pared to recognize and to offer the
proper answer to these plays of their
rivals. The whole system has Percy
Haughton. as head. with Lee Leary
as his right-hand man and Reggie
Brown with assistants. to act as
scout. as it were. and make complete
diagrams of the attack of Harvard's
opponents, and, in addition. to assist in
developing the Harvard general STRAIT
egy. Then there is Trainer Donovan
to take care of>the physical condition
of the men and work out with them,
while under DR.. Nihcols. or the assist
ants Instructed by him, the medical
most experienced hands. After this.
but quite distinct in way from the
ordinary hit -or miss coming back of
graduate coaches. Haughton has his
special veterans like Hitchcock and
Parmenter. for instance, this. year,
Blagden in former years. for line
coaching of individuals. All this re-
suits in a very wonderful direction of
the work, so that it covers an exceed
ingly broad field and yet with practi-
cally no waste time or motion.
The Army has had something of
start over the Navy in the way OF
early practice, and it is evident that
they are going to do all they can at
West Point to hold on to the success
that came to them last season. When
the two teams lined up at the Polo
Grounds in 1913, the Navy was pro-
nounced favorite, and after the game
had been going Ave minutes it looked
as though the powerful Annapolis team
would consistently rip up West Point
and that there would be but one side
to the contest. Later when West Point
got it's toward passes going and the
cogs of the Navy machine seemed to
slip 1t was hard for the Navy admirers
to believe their team would not come
back with the same style OF work as
in the first period and push the Army
back over the goal line, but it never
came. West Point has realized fully
that the power was in the Navy last
year and that the Army line could not
quite hold the attack. and hence 1t was
ward pass game which could SO throw
the Navy into disorder. This year the
Army means to build it's line with as
powerful an array as possible. so that
sca s ANY ana nate then it maK 4 n1t is %ne to
| take it's chances with its open
games against. the Navy. The Navy.
| on the other hand, although little late
| in getting down to real work, mas not
forgotten the lesson administered 10
il on the Polo Grounds on that oc-
casion, and proposes, not only to be
able to defend against those long Tor.
ward passes, but to produce few OF
them itself 1t is rather a joke
that the Navy, which in the first year
of the forward pass beat the Army
with it. should this last year have the
tables turned, but it paid the penalty
of not having sufficient practice IN oe-
tense against these long passes. AS
thew saw down there, however. they are
not going to be caught mapping again
in this way.
"Hush." said man to me last ran.
| Don't let anybody know. but there is
new way of swapping the bal! back.
what is it?'' said /. really having
the courage to talk out loud, Ing
spiral pass that DAILY is using at WI.
liams and that Dartmouth has oeeh
using for more than a year,?
..That's it, but the man who talked to
me thought 1t was new" replied my IN
| formant. +
The spiral pass about which there Is
| a gradually growing interest Is good
| method of swapping back the ball on
dry day. 1t has the merit of speed
and accuracy and when the back Is
| used to it is really easier to handle