The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Crimson Eleven Will Lose
Many of Its Veterans Of
Championship Team. '
TIGERS BLAME COACHES

New York. Dec. 13.-They buried foot
ball a couple OF weeks back without
holding an autopsy to determine whether
it was Percy Haughton's wizardy az
coach or the individual brilliance Of the
Crimson players that was responsible for
three seasons.
The answer to this question probably
will be found in the 1915 season, when
Haughton, as coach, will be put to q
real test Harvard opens the 1915 season
with Mahan, soucy. Parson and one or
two more left of the great machine which
| swept through the championship in 1913
and 1914 Brickley will be gone. Hard
wick will be gone, Pennock, Bradlee, Jeh
Collidge, Francke, Trumbull, Logan and
| a half dozen others who carried the Grim
son standard to victory in the past will
be gone Haughton must build anew. And
that will be the test.
| If Harvard has championship team
in 1915, it will mean that it was Haugh-
tons wonderful coaching skill that was
responsible for Harvard's record during
the past three years, for II Haughton,
with poor prospects. builds a machine in
1915 that whirls onward to victory. then
no one can deny that 1t was Haughton's 5
teaching power and not the individual
prowess of the players that was Vespon-
sible for Harvard's past triumphs.
But II Harvard fails in l9l5-if Harvard
minus Brickley. Hardwick, Pennock, and
others does not show-then 1t would
seem that it was the players, not the
Haughton system, that won for Har-
ward in the last three years. The Har-
ward showing in 1915 will be watched
I with much interest.
Tigers Blame Coaches.
The trouble with Princeton last sea-
son may have been because of the poor
! teaching OF the coaches, but there is
no ducking the fact that Princeton had
one woefuIIy weak spot in its makeup.
And that was at quarter back position.
Ames, who acted as the regular quarter
| back is not of varsity caliber. His
| father, Snake Ames, was a famous
| Princeton football player. but his son
never will rise to his fathers height.
Young Amcs showed a certain amount
of generalship during the season. but
no wonderful amount. such as is required
from a varsity quarter back. Ames
played back on the defensive. He was
| only fair at catching punts. and he
was mighty poor at running them back.
| He is fair wiggler, a fair dodger.
but he starts slowly and he cannot throw
| of tacklers.
Further than this, Ames seemed too
/ light. In these modern football days a
quarter back very often has to take a
smash at the line. Ames tried 1t sew
| eral times in the big games and Ames
| was tossed back and forth as though he
/ were a bundle of tissue paper. As an
end runner Ames showed up fair. but
there are a hundred quarter backs In
the country whose work was better
than that of Ames-
They took out Ames in the fourth
period of the Yale-Princeton game and
put Click in at quarter back. The score
then was Yale 1s, Princeton o. The game
ended Yale 19. Princeton H. 1t was
Clicks geDeralship at quarter back that
I enabled Princeton to score. Click drove
his backs against the weak spots in the
Yale line. He picked them out instinct
| lively
Had Click been a quarter back through
out that Yale-Princeton game the score
might have been far different.
Some Goal Kicker.
Lloyd Bletzer, end on the Mount Union
| COhio). eleven, established a record in
| 1914 that never will be beaten. Thirty
seven times he was called upon to kick
goal after touchdown and thirty-seven
times his unerring boot shot the ball
over the cross bar. He went into Mount
| Unions final game Of that season with
record OF twenty-seven straight goals.
His team made ten touchdowns against
Wooster that day and ten times did Blet-
ger come through with a goal, many Of
them kicked from extremely difficult
| angles.
Bletzer hasn't been heralded very
much for his accomplishments because
he attends one Of the so-called small col
leges Had he accomplished the same
| feat for Yale, Harvard or Princeton, he
| probably would get himself photographed
and interviewed as often as one Charles
| Brickley.
Bletzer, who is feet inches tall, is
wonderful punter as well. He has long
legs and he follows each kick through to
the limit of his leg swing, thus giving
his kicks the maximum distance.