Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-24
king FOOTBALL
BEGINS BRIEF
reign in EAST
Il Will Be a Short and Merry
One From all Accounts
Walter Camps Dope
By WALTER CAMP.

the truly democratic game. You, dig
nitied and sedate under other eircum.
stances. feel even on the way to the
game the prickings and surgings OF
some wicked inspirations As soon
as YOU hear the cheering and sing.
ing you know that you are to forget
yourself, and. on the whole, you don't
much care IL you do.
The game begins. You lean for
ward in your seat. If you are a man
YOU forget your cigar. You tread
upon the foot of your neighhor. As
the game becomes exciting your very
character seems To be altering. You
stamp and howl: words (good or bad)
spring from your lips quite unnoticed
by yourself: you push quite uncon-
sciously against those opposite you;
you may even seize them by the arm,
without knowing who or what they
are.
At times You kick with equal ahan-
don the legs of those in front OF you.
You find yourself responding to q
strange rhythm of song or a cheer.
You do not care whether the grand
stand collapses or not.
There's Reason.
Now. why is all this? A distin-
guished English writer says that II
has perfectly reasonable and solid
ground and that II is caused by your
watching combination OF extraordin-
airy powers. numbers and individuali-
ties. such as you could never fathom
for yourself
There are % men before you, each
picked with extreme care for a par
ticular reason-one man because he
is swift. one because he is full OF guile.
the third because he is heavy and
powerful. the fourth because he is
agile and utterly courageous.
The writer goes farther. Let NOR
al qualities enter into the causes for
selection. One man must not be sell
fish; the second must not be jealous:
all must be good tempered, collected
in mind and utterly fearless. These
men are not merely individuals, but
parts of an organism greater than
themselves, to which they must be
subservient A mystical personality
present in its entirety; not in one In
dividual but in them all together"
Players are Alive and Eager.
In addition, therefore, to the dash
and fire of the game there is the calcu-
lating. deliberate spirit OF chess. with
this difference-that all the players
are alive, sentiment and eager. banded
together net for personal glory, but.
in fact, with every argument against
IL not to accomplish some task IN an
inanimate thing. but to accomplish
task in the teeth Of an equal number
of equally trained, equally jealous,
equally restricted and equally insplr-
as themselves and pledged by their
name and their presence for precisely
an opposite end.
September sees the start Of the pre-
Iiminary training In the football
camps. There will be far more men
taking part in this early work than
ever before, for the season Is short
one and many of the early games are
of character to be much more exact
ing on the teams than has been the
case in any other season.
The Yale team under Coach Hinkey
will have a squad of some thirty play
ers assembled at Madison, on the
Connecticut shore The line was deci-
mated by graduation last June, and
there is much work to be done. There
is some good, promising material, but
the bulk of it Is composed of back
field candidates, and the difiicult Job
Is to produce line men Of caliber DR..
Bull will have charge of the kickers,
and is to assume hisfnew duties on the
athletic teams, football included. this
fall.
Starts Early.
Harvard and Princeton win also
start early, and Harvard's star drop
kicker, Brickley, is said to be keeping
his hand, or rather his foot. in form I'm
coaching Virginia, who
have their first chance at Yale this
year. Penn. under Brooke, is assidu-
ously planning her campaign to re-
trieye the defeat by Cornell, while
Sharp, out at ithaca, win soon be
working just as hard to prepare hia
men to hold this position.
Coach Duff, the former Princeton
guard, whose work with the University
If Pittsburg football team last season
was so effective, gave orders for the
OF the squad at Windber in
early September, and proposes to have
3 per cent more men in the prelimi1.
Try practice than he did last season.
Pittsburg defeated Cornell last year
20 to Z, and also made away with the
carlisle Indians 10 To e. both feathers