The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-09-26
College Football Season In
augurated with Many
Games
HARVARD SEEMS
TO BE FAVORITE
Has Veteran Team and in
Addition the Peerless
Brickley


tillery of the eastern college football
brigade unlimbers to-day and the boom
of punt and drop kick is heard on many
a varsity gridiron. Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dart
mouth and many other elevens enter
the field, majority playing the initial
game oe their schedules. While all re-
| port excellent material from which to
build up teams, which late IN November
will be battling for eastern football SUI
premacy, the coaches make no secret OF
the fact that in almost every case they
are counting heavily upon veteran play
ers about whom they will build the 1914
| football machines.
] In this respect Harvard which holds
the 1918 season honors, is unusually we'll
equipped for the hard campaign which
/ includes games with Yale, Michigan,
Princeton, Brown, Washington and JEFF
/ ferson and Penn State. This schedule,
probably the hardest that has been UNI
dertaken by an eastern team in recent
years, places heavy strain upon the
/ team and it is certain that far more
] IMAM Iilt Hsudt VI HAaf VIE "'At ~
/ used in both the ma ior and minor con-
| tests. 1t is fortunate, therefore, that
Harvard is well supplied with first and
second string veteran material. In Cap
| tain BricIxley the Crimson has the most
consistent drop-kicker of modern foot
| ball. This is great asset but the team
as whole must bring Brickley to with
| in striking distance OF the goal and hold
on defense while he gets his kicks away
safely.
For this purpose Harvard has ma
iority of the line and backfield which
last autumn brought a championship
| to Cambridge. On the line Cowan and
| Pennock are again available as guards;
Trumbull and Soucy for either center
or tackle and Hardwick and Coolidge
at ends. The backfield is intact with
Logan at quarter, Mahan and Bradlee
at half back aud Brickley at fullback.
Coach Haughton's problem is TO develop
| from the second string and 1913 fresh
man SQUAD two tackles and one end. To
select three or four suitable players from
squad of some 10 candidates is not a
task beyond Haughton's reach and with
satisfactory second string Haryard's
lineup problem should be solved early
this season.
At Yale the outlook is not so salts.
factory. Graduation cut heavily into the
1918 eleven and coach Hinkey will have
to find new players for a number of po-
sitions. OF the regulars but three of
last wears veterans are left in Captain
Talbot. left tackle, Quarterback Will
son and Halfbaek Knowles. Wilson and
Knowles, between them scored close 70
so per cent of Yale's touchdowns last
autumn. There are several second string
letter men who should fit in acceptably
in Canter, Hubbard and Brann, ends,
Way, substitute tackle, and Wiser,
Guernsey and MacLeigh for the back
field material and since Coach Hinkey
will undoubtedly inaugurate new coach
ing policies it may prove that he can
develop stronger machine from this
more mouldable material.
New coaching methods at Princeton
mark the Tigers 1914 season and un-
der the circumstances the veterans avail
able may not prove as valuable as would
be the case were the old policies 10 be
continued. 1t is generally understood
that Princeton will play an open game,
using many forms of the forward pass,
modelled along the lines of the Notre
Dame attack as shown at West Point
against the Army. II this proves cor
rect, fast, active and rsngy players will
undoubtedly prove acceptable. while new
regulars may have to be developed from
former freshmen and Eecond string ma
terial. Princeton is well supplied with
veterans. having Baker, Brown, Shea and
Lamberton for ends; Captain Balm ior
tackle; Longstreteh, w. Stuart and
Shenk for guards. +. Trenkmann, J.
Swart. Haviland and Nourse are the
best of the center candidates. A new
backfield will have to be formed with i.
Trenkmann. Boland, Dickerman, briggs
and Law as the leaders.
Pennsylvania and Cornell which close
the eastern college season with the
Thanksgiving day game at Philadelphia,
report large squads with fair number
of veterans and many promising novices
and substitutes. Coach Brooks must
build up pair of fast ends, and a steady
center. In other respects the Quakers
are well supplied with veterans. Butler
and Borie are the best candidates for
center: Murdoch. Koons and Kelly fur
nish a nucleus for ends; Harris and Car
ter are veteran tackles while Captain
Journey. Russell Wolfe and Pepper arc
the leading guards. In the backfeld,
Moffiith, Avery, Bolger. Merrill, Irwin
and Jones have all had experience IN
big games and with the new material
form squad from which a fast often
sive and defensive quartet should be Sc
lected.
DR.. A. L. Sharpe has an excellent squad
Of experienced players with which to
start the season at Cornell, For lines
men there are available, Captain
.O'Hearn. shelton. Mehsffey, Zeman,
IAutx. Hart. ]. u. McCuteheon, VIII
Iams. Cool. Prick. n. c. McCuteheon,
Munsick. Mallory. Gallogly, Snyder, Mae
Donald. Sherwood. Gilman, Carnal. Gsss,
Holtz and Janaiseon. In the backheid,
Philippi. Barrett. Collyer. Lahr. Shuier,
Taber. Hubbard end Schlichter form the
foundation Of q formidable aggregation
Of fast active oandidatts-