Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-05
.HINKEY IS SMALL
ONLY IN STATURE
YaIe's Famous Coach Makes
Up for Physical Defects by
His Spirit.
HE HOLDS AN A. A. RECORD


Frank Hinkey,, the head football
coach at Yale, has had remarkable
career on the gridiron. Hinkeys
although member Of the class of
1895. has never been entirely out OF
Yale's football councils. He has re-
turned each season since then to help
out for a week or more when most
needed. As his business would allow
him, he has heightened his stay at
New Haven, until last season he was
with Howard Jones the greater part
of the time. While a player OF the
old school, an Eastern critic COM
ments that he has kept pace with the
game and knows the modern one as
well as the old one.
Hinkey has Walter Camp as chief
adviser, and, besides, he will be able
to rally to him many of the great
Yale players of the past, from the
team in 1893 down.
He was Yales greatest end, and
was known as the Silent Captain
when he was at the head of the team
In 1893 and 1894.
Small, Almost FraiI.
Although small almost frail-weigh-
ing only 1877 pounds when he came to
Yale from Andover, and never more
than 100 while playing football for the
Blue-Hinkey was as wicked tackler
and as hard a player as ever put on
toys. He enjoys the unique position
of having his name enrolled on four
all-American teams, as he was picked
as one of the two best ends of 1891 in
his freshman year.
He led the Yale team in 1894, when
the game was played that broke re-
lations between the Ellis and Harvard.
Throughout his college career it is
said that there was never a yard made
around his end.
From the very first he was one of
Yale's most spectacular players. In
his freshman year the season was not
two weeks old before it was no longer
a question of whether the frail-look-
ing freshman should play end rush,
but of which of the two veterans of
Billy Rhodes's team should play the
other end.
The place finally went to Josh Hart
well, afterward captain of the crew.
Rhodes's team in the fall of 1890 was
the first Yale team to be beaten by
Harvard since about 1876.
The next year Lee McClung, after
ward treasurer of the United States,
was captain, and Harvard, with prac-
tically her victorious team of the year
before, opened attack on the diminu-
tive freshman end.
HinIey Wanted to Know.
Corbett, their speediest runner, was
sent at him with a touchdown In
view. When the play was dis
tinguished 1t was found that Laurie
Bliss was on his way down the field
with the ball, about to score a Yale
touchdown, and couldn't recall what
happened.
This was only the beginning.
Hinkey was unprotected all-Ameri-
with Tom Shevlin the end position on
Walter Camps football team for all
time.
An incident of Hinkey's taciturn
disposition Is recalled after that me-
morable game at Springfield in 1884,.
| 1t will be remembered that the feel
ing between Harvard and Yale at
that time was very bitter, and dur
ing the game there was considerable
smuggling, in which department the
members of each team broke about
even.
Joe Hallowell, a Harvard tackle,
retired from the game with a badly
broken nose, and shortly afterward
Fred Murphy, of the Yale team, was
completely knocked out In a fierce
scrimmage. The battle was so keen
that Yale went through one play with
only ten men before Hinkey realized
that Murphy had taken the count on
the side lines.
On the way back to the Yale quar-
tiers after the game, the members OF
the Yale team attempted to engage
Captain Hinkey in conversation. Va
rious comments on Yale's victory were
made in order to draw Hinkey out.
But Hinkey still remained silent.
Who Put Murph outs
He finally expressed himself regard
ing the thing that hurt his feelings
more than anything else that hap
pened during the game by remarking:
II would like to know the fellow that
put 'Murph' out"
Hinkey is credited with a lot OF
things that he never was guilty of
doing. He did figure in a number of
incidents that have helped to make
football history. He had method
of his own of putting ginger into his
players that would not be favorably
received by modern pigskin chasers.
One of the fiercest games that Hin
key ever played In was the last en-
gagement Yale had with the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, at Manhattan
Field, in 1893.
In that game Hinkey played oppo-
site Mitchell Rosengarten, Quaker.
who knew how to meet Hinkey's
style of game, and he met 1t so effec-
lively that the Yale captain was
wearing bandages before the scrim-
mage WAS over