Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
HOT WEATHER ISA
SERIOUS DRAWBACK
TO FOOTBALL WORK
Pennsylvania Griidiron War
riors Suffer Much in Scrim-
mage Contests on rankin
Field.
BY EDWARD R. BUSHNELL

Franklin Field was a veritable oven
yesterday. and the football men suffered
Hardly the day the coaches would have
selected to give their men the first taste
of scrimme ging The time before the
initial contest with Gettysburg. one week
hence. however, is already perously
short. and this sort of strenuous work
was absolutely imperative to permit the
coaches to pass on the respective merits
of the candidates for the line. Although
it was much too hot and sultry for foot
ball, it was a good day to reduce weight.
Too many of the linemen are still car
rying excess cargocs of weight.
The character Of the scrimmage work
in which the linemen INDUCED was con-
fined to charging exercises. The Of
fensive side had seven men on the line
of scrimmaEe. the defense four and Ave.
What the coaches thus tried 70 teach
was the proper manner to break through
ard to check opposing lincmcn without
using the hands. The way the coaches
worked tho mon had much the same
effect as Tubing contest for oarsmen.
In another part of the field Head
Coach Brooke had the candidates for
the backfeld doing work almost rs
strenuous. Embryo quarterbackF, half
backs and fulbacks ran through signals,
hurled and caught forward passes,
chased up and down the field under
kicks and cvcn tried a little work in
running back puuts.
Just now the coaches are not giving
any inklinG as to the composition of the
team i'm this same. But II Is almost
certain that Captain Journcay will set
FIRST call MT C'utrc. The only uncertain
thing about his work - the amount Of
speed he vii davc'up To play centre ac-
cpriiug To- tn" PENNSYLVANIA system he
viii have 20 show great activity ard he
able tu back NJ not only his own position,
hut 10 help wherever an extra man is
needed
Tnrl- arc tNo members of last years
f' snmau team who seem To have caught
~" coaches ewes rs candidates for line
hOuOrs They a." George Wharton Pep
per, IT,, and Withcrow. Pepper Is
man built much on the same lines as
Frank pirkarski. though Weighing more
than this A!l-Amorican guard. Wtherow
carries about 225 pounds and is not vet
trained down - hard muscle, Harris
and Russell, who played on last Years
'oam, ought To retain limo positions As
for he ends. Coach Dickson has not
given an. nrImation as to who will be
his FIST choices here, either has George
Irp"h" indicated what men are his ra-
"u"tcf fpr back fold positions. ON a
"Uogs, ~" man TO start at ruar'orGark
viii b" "" PallOu or Irwin, two of the
other hack1, Jones and Matthcwe, while
E"ttUals or Mut'i't would c"mplct. q
rretr good aackaeld.
" the University NJ Michissn Coach
Fielding H. Yost has resented the con
cu-ipu 0f one Eastern football writer
who predicted that when Mich rar ulav-
ed Harvard Al Cambridge on October 81
ne 'f'M-on would ot use ITS best p'are
but would reserve them for the prirro-
ton ard Yale teams Ycs' las no reason
10 care what PLAYS Harvard uses. bur IL
Uiqurs his pride 10 have the Inference
drawn that his team viii not be- inn
r"rlar' enough to make The Crimson *
tend Itself.
II mag be stated rshr now that Har-
ward hasn't any intention Of submitting
IN boating by hiChisan and the Grim
SON ma" BIZ dep'nI'd upOu TO use rg
best plays and PLAYERS. Tho surmise
in7l the Harvard would USE only
simple plays a-aiusr Michigan and ro-
~" tnc intricate ones for Princeton
HHH Val" shows th" extent Z" which
many persons Ovcrcstimatc ~O-rtIIod
F.
Will have The advantage Of about I'm.
same brand Of coaching. and victory or
defeat will depend rather urou tho c4libre
Of m" mon than their trick or compIi-
catod formations.
Trick PLAYS for which secret pracrfro
iH thought necessary never represent 6
per cont of a teams strength. ON In,
contrary mon a.e what count. n ITar-
ward should resolve 40 start the Nichi-
@an game without Brcklcy or Mahan i'm
the back field, there might be- some
ground for the supposition that Nicht-
Ean was uuderestimated. II ought 10 he
thoroughly understood bv this time tbst
the strength Of the Harvard eleven vu
depend more upon the calibro of the on
tire team, particularly of the backfrld
than upon any now football which Coach
HaughJOn or any one els" can teach
them. In a team which has absolutely
mastered the rudiments Of the game ana
can do the elementary things as near
perfectly as the Harvard PLAYERS do. AN
the trick PLAYS that ever were known
wouldn't increase the strength Of that
team S per cent.
Dr. Fred Settle end on the teams Of