Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
STRONG AFTER HARVARD
Yale and Princeton Getting Ready
TO Attack College Champs.
CAMBRIDGE MEN IMPRESSIVE
Crimson Game is Generally RecoE-
missed 80 Being More Formidable
Than Any Played by
Big schools.


NEW YORK. sept 12-There is every
prospect Of an unusually interesting foot
ball season In the east because Of the fact
that both Yale and PRINCETON will throw
against Harvard's brand Of foot ball
that has stood the test OF the last few
years. new coaching systems that funda-
mentally must be heartily approved by
the Blue and orange and Black II "
perhaps hardly necessary TO state that
since the advent Of Haughton, Harvard
foot ball has achieved not only distinc-
tiveness hut distinction. In other words.
IL has been something not 10 match, but
TO beat We shall see whether the new
systems at Nassau and at New Haven
are designed primarily to account for
whatever may be turned out at Cam
bridge. in itself a laudable effort. or for
a revival Of sound foot ball at tho two
institutions in question-a revival that
goes deeper than a mere victory in the
annual game.
There can be no gainsaying the fact
that at Cambridge in recent years the
type OF foot ball on view even SO early
as the october games has been impress
Give. As a result ii Is fairly evident that
opposing coaches must face the best of
qualitative foot ball with q type OF grid
iron game that is easily immeaEursbly
superior or else Of value along the same
lines In other words, 10 win in the east
one must beat Haughton and Harvard.
Can It be done? Until the season draws
into the more important games It Is suffi-
Client TO study the type Of play; whether
It be built around a Brickley or a Mahan.
Both in DoIdrums.
Both in recent years have been in the
doldrums. Both have been in the throes
OF adjusting tho best thought OF the old
timer with oil that his prestige means.
with that OF the newcomer, perhaps just
a trif1e too sure Of himself Neither
man. the youngster with the now idea.
nor the old-timer with the fairly sure
foundation, has been worth throwing
overheard old-tlmers in foot ball are
apt TO believe that they know all that
there Is 20 be known about the game,
The same is true OF the average young
ster. The problem seems TO be to combine
the viewpoints of the two.
Harvard seems 20 have been able 20
combine them In the person OF Percy
Haughton. The task has not been so
easy for Yale and Princeton. Both have
experimented widely. II not always wisely
The Blue will be handled this year by
Frank Hlnkey. with all that Hinkey is
able to gather around him. while the
Tigers will be under the immediate com
mand OF Penfield, the Rhodes scholar.
who seems to be the "field" nucleus OF a
group of all that Is worth while in Prince
ton foot ball past and present.
Harvard Well Entrenched.
In the east, then. one finds Harvard
well intrenched under the coaching of
Percy Haughton and such aides as that
remarkable head coach gathers around
him; Yale. with Hinkey 1T the helm and
every prospect that he VIII be the rally
ing point OF coaches 30 widely different
as Ray Tompkins and shevlin; Princeton
under the titular leadership of Penfield
and the support OF such worth while
field men and strategists as Knowlton
Ames and Don Herring.
There remain outside this triumvlrate IN
the east. of course, Pennsylvania and
Cornell. naturally forming two-team
group Of their own. The 1thaeans are In
their third and possibly their last year
under DR.. Sharpe. while the ouakers will
be handled for the second timo by George
II. Brooke. Unlike such institutions as
Yale, Harvard and Princeton. these two
will reflect markedly the styles OF their |
head coaches. DR.. Sharpe. OF course will
have the services Of two excellent men !
I'm the persons OF Dap Reid and Ray Van
orman. while Brooke will be able to call |
upon old Pennsylvania players who are
of his point OF view. The battle between
these two viii. Of course. be interesting. !
for either. under the play at present I'm |
vogue, may turn loose some OF the most |
advanced foot bail OF the year.
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