Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19
coAch HiNkEYs SYSTEM
 MEETS WITH FAVOR
lie Will Probably be Offered the Posi- lien of Head Coach Next Year.


 Will the present coaching system be continued at Yale another football season? The question has been asked during the past two or three weeks as often as whether Yale will defeat Harvard and Princeton. One of the answers is: Look at the fate of the present Princeton coaching system It has broken down in mid-esason, in fact on the eve of the game with Yale, the headliner of the Tiger season, al- though perhaps not even now too late to remedy 1t or to change the teams attack into winning policy. Pen held, the Princeton head coach nom lnally since tbe season op/Sed, has become so in reality, and the system that as coach of the Princeton freAh- man eleven allowed him to defeat ale 1917 30 to 0 last year, a team that contained such stars as Harry Le- gore and Billy Easton, has been restor- ed just in time to make itself felt against the Ellis on Saturday.
 Another question is: Yale two years genuine head coacch for the first time. There is no idea. at Yale of going back to the old system Yale will have head coach next season and he will have final authority. If he does not use it to bar from coaching every graduate of the past who be- heves that he must check the elevens work to teach it some idea of his ow nit will be the fault of the head coach and he will have to suffer the consequences, which, briefly stated are that after the defeat of the team the funeral starts from his door,
 Frank Hinkey has SideStepped the plan of inserting all kinds of schemes of play in mid-season, and the belief is held at Yale that he thas got about everythign out of 8 mass of weak ma terial that any coach could get, cer tainly much more than anybody who was close to the eleven expected he would get No doubt is felt that Hinl1ey will be offered the position of head coach by the new captain, who will almost certainly be AIeck Wilson, but the captains power is supreme and the matter cannot be settled till he makes his choice.
 in reality Hinkey has created no new role in his coaching policy. It was Percy Haughton of Harvard who recognized that if progressive de- velopment of the eleven was to con- tinue, interruptions from alumni who wanted to install some innovation must cease. The few displeased graduates at Harvard have found the sweeping victories by Haughton's elevens sooth- ing balm for their personal disappoint- ments. There has been no coaching for the Yale varsity eleven this fall. generally speaking, except by Hinkey. Dr. Bull had had-charge of the scrubs,
 
 lars, and two different systems of de- veloping the two formally organized teams have been installed. This has given the varsitp practice with an elev- en daily who had a set of signals which they did not know and plays which were mapped out by a different coach than theirs. Both Bull and Hi1- kpy have freely called upon Billy Martiug and Doc Cornish. members of last years eleven, who are with the tea mthis fall as resident coaches, for individual assistance, and alumni who were old players have been heartily welcomed but not invited to run out and take charge of the eleven. It is true that the number of coaches who have been at Yale>f field this fal has been one-third the average for the past dozen seasons annually, but the Hinkey system of football has been soundly learned and Hinkey stands ready to stand or fall by it.
 That he has had the benefit of the advice of Walter Camp, Yale's most famous strategist is one of the strong est links in the chain, and MT. Camp g quiet presence along the side lines at the almost daily practice has resulted in some whispered suggestions that have been invaluable.
 Such a system, whether with Hin key as campaign general or not, has come to stay, and it is recognized at ale that it is the best organized and most efficient, and the paralysis of Princeton football this fall $ believed to be due to the fact that the Tigers adhered to the old Inexpensive scheme of the football committee system.