The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
MAN OF ACTION HAS
Big TASK AT YALE
Frank Hinkey Depended On TO
Whip Football Team
Into shape.
HIS RECORD A GREAT ONE
FavOrs Open Game With
Enough Fighting Spirit to
Make Success Probable.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, Jan. SIN Frank
Hinkey, newly appointed head football
coach at Yale to replace Howard Jones,
Yale has placed in charge OF her football
destinies man known as the "Silent
Captain" about whom numberless stories
are told. but who says little himself.
Hinkey is man of action he does not
believe In talking.
with Hinkey at the head of affairs
there will he few authoritative announce
ments of Yale football plans. There will
be lots doing. nevertheless. Hinkey be-
lieves the game as Yale has played it the
past two seasons has not been open
enough. and he will undoubtedly make a
change In this regard. He leans toward
a compromise between the style Of game
Notre Dame uses and the style known as
"the Yale game" He knows the new
school of football too, and during his stay
In New Haven the past two seasons 10
has made several suggestions for more
open play. For one reason or another
Captain ketcham's team never found time
TO perfect the plays suggested by Hinkey.
Such will not be the case next fall, how.
ever.
Frank Hinkey Is one Of the greatest
ends Yale ever had. Two years ago
Walter Camp put him at end on his An
American team for all time" When he
came to Yale from Andover he weighed
Just 1876 pounds-less than any other
candidate. for they were using big men
In the '9os. When the call was issued
for candidates in 1891 Hinkey reported
a pale. apparently anemic lad In two
weeks II was apparent that whether Josh
Hartwell or Billy Rhodes made one end.
the other was sure To 90 to the pale
looking youngster from Andovcr.
The thing that sums up the c'reer 1t
the silent Captain" best is that no one
ever made yard around Hink"y, end.
The statement has gone undsputed since
the new coach graduated, from college
and IS considered fact In New Haven.
Never in his career as n football player
was he taken from the game. la the
nineties stretchers were common and ev-
tremely useful adjuncts to any football
team Harvard found itself in 1891 with
practically the same team as she had the
year before, while Capt. Lee McClung
faced the task of rebuilding the Yale
eleven. Harvard had Lake and Corb.tt
as halfbacks. and in the Yale Harvard
game that year one of the first plays vas
To- send Corbett against the fragile
TIinkcy. To this day. 1t Is said. Corhe.t
does not know what happened. As 10
was flying through the air. Sasping for
breath. he dropped the ball. which Bliss
picked mp ana carried to the Harvard goal
line for the only touchdown of the game
Some such a spirit of fight as this IL
what Hnkey as head football coach in
tends To nstil into Yale players. Yale
graduates believe Hinkey can do IL and
thus revive Yale football II any man can.
The Yale Harvard game last fail was
rough enough so that Referee Langford
warned Yale men several times, but the
game next fall will probably be played a
good deal harder
Although Frank Hinkey IL a familiar
figure to present day football enthusiasts
at Yale few OF them remember him on
the football field as player. lie was n
member of the Yale team for four years
and played in the last game the Uni
vcrsi'y of Pennsylvania ever played
against Vale. He was prominently asso-
ciuted with Val, football during the two
years of '9J and 90 that Yale and Har-
ward football relations Were Interrupted.
Hinkey was captain OF thu 1894 eleven
which met Princeton at Manhattan Field.
showed them under and then met Harvard
at springfield in the game which was so
rough II terminated athletic relations ht-
tween the two universities for two years
Harvard and Princeton enthusiasts in
the early Hos came to football games
expecting to see the great Yale end wear
ing horns. They were disappointed for,
except for size, there was nothing unusual
about him, Grim taciturn. unrelentinG
IN his playing. he was "A man that made
a strong appeal to the imagination. IIs
makes the same appeal to Yale men o.
to-day. Ilnkey has not announced any
plans yet. but II liz sure that his plans
include plenty Ct work. He will have a
team that can play and play hard