Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-19
Charles Mayser, F. and n.
Coach, Gives Interesting Views
on GridirOn Game.
MAKES DARING PREDICTION
Prophecies That 1915 Cham
pionship viii Depend on
YaIe-Princeton Contest.

G9aen, the player and the graz
made most interesting topic at the
smoker held by the Princeton Club IT
the rooms of the Essex Club, on PARK
place, last night. Perhaps the mos
striking statement Of the evening Was
a point brought out by Charles ".
Mayser. former Newark Academy
athletic instructor. Mayser declared
that the strategy and scientific foo<-
ball developed through the gradual
changes made in the rules havs
brought football up to 50 high a STAN
dard that the game is H1isnamed and
should no longer be called football.
but might better be known as brain
ball"
The great college game said Ma
ser, lis now played from the head ~.
It is no longer a smuggling match and
a case OF beef against Drawn
A football player, with the advaf-
tages along strateg1cal lines afforded
by the new rules, must develop what
might be termed a football sense
that requires intelligence, even more
than ordinary physique. A striking
illustration Of the point wish to EN-
phasize occurred in q game in whfcE
Franklin and Marshall played this
year. In this contest q tackle wenI
fifteen yards back Of his own line -
intercept forward pass. because he
guessed what was coming. This play
would not be unusual or extraordinary
for a centre but for tackle, who
does not play 90 loosely, TO get back
that way shows how necessary it u
nowadays, with the more open play,
for a football player to possess
brains"
SOethes Prineeton's Pride.
In commenting on the situation at
Princeton, the clever T. and NJ expert
soothed the pride Of the sons Of old
Nassau by telling them that no col
lege team In the East had anything to
Drag about-not even Harvard-for.
IN his estimation, team must wiz
every game IN order to enjoy a thor
oughly successful season Harvard
narrowly escaped defeat at the hands
OIL Penn State, an eleven that was
only fairly equipped, and she was
lucky to beat Washington and Jefrer-
son by 1913 score, a mistake ia
generalship bringing about the defeaY.
Ihen there was a scoreless tie WITH
Brown, Mayser went on To explain.
"Ot course Harvard men viii SAL
that substitutes were used in those
games, but when looks at tbs
scores and the records he does not
stop to consider whether subs or the
regular varsity was playing. The
scores do not show that.
Don't Blame the csaeh.-
Another point which I wish TO en-
phasize is the fallacy at most Colleges
OF blaming the coaches when the team
Is not successful Some years ago,
after Yale game at Princeton, Keens
Fitzpatrick sand 10 me: If a tear
wins they carry the captain of the
field and tell hum what q fine eleven
he has. II it rs beaten they haul the
coaches over the Goals
This coaching proposition is a deli
/ cate subject and hard one to hans
die The less attention coach paya
TO the newspapers the better for HIM
| self. The only instance in which s
coach may be blamed, 7 believe &
the one who comes out and announces
with blatant blar6 his campaign and
policies for the season. A coach who
does that is a faker. His course can
not be determined by himself It is
fashioned by the material he has on
hand and the capabilities Of the play
ers.
Corneu's Great Baek9sld
Cornell this year was gifted with.
one of the greatest backfieId combir
atoms L ever saw. Its line was weak
| but the backfleld was marvel Still.
/ when you can get three or four men
70 bowl over eleven. that Is football
From the coaches viewpoint, be-
heve that the game Is getting down
to a more scientific basis every year
/ A movement which have detected AZ
Yale to introduce football TO the pros
/ pective candidates through the me
dunn of smokers held during the wiz
ter, is one that appeals to me strong.
+ ~. At every college there are men
capable Of playing football who de-
not come out for the team for res
sons best known to themselves DO
not say it in q spirit of hraggadocio
1 when declare that could go to most
any big college and take a team OF
/ just such men and whip II into .
machine that could beat most any
thing. The problem is to get these
men into the arena.
Representing a small college, it
might be of some interest to you to
/ hear my explanation of many Of HE
F upsets OF the past season on the COLI
1 lege football field. They have gen
orally been attributed 70 the neR
rules, but this is not at all true, to
my way OF thinking. I believe thar
+ the professional coaches secured from
4 the larger colleges have helped boost
/ the little fellows up the ladder A
/ few years ago II was considered dis
4 loyal for Yale, Princeton or Har-
/ ward man to coach another college
/ This Is no longer the opinion. / am
a member of the Yale class of 80. and.
/ like many others, have made football
my profession. The smaller college
teams are now taught football JUST
as the larger ones, and have the
I benefits of systems developed and
! taught by the bigger universities
+ That is the solution, in my opinion
/ of the Phenomenon. The first upsef
Of the season occurred, 7 believe,
when Franklin and Marshall beat the
4 University OF Pennsylvania. After
] that there were one or more surprises
/ avery week.