New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-06
Old Graduates Pour Into
New Haven to Cheer
Blue to Victory.
TEAM SHOWS SIGNS
OF A NEW SPIRIT
Kicking Drill and Signal Work
Constitute Final Preparation
for TO-days Battle.
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new uaVeI, nov. b.-fa!e is waitin
expectantly tonight for tomorrow .
proof OF a football regeneration. Grad
yates and undergraduates are discuss
ing 10 hing else put football, au4
great things are hoped for. To-nigh
brought The arrival OF numerous OIL
J ale graduates, who have read Win
-Ons!ue4ao.e m4sEIv.nsS OF the mlJ
fortunes of the Blue earlier in IN
season, and nave come back fol tnc
Brown game with the nope of seeing
performance that is worth whlie.
The Yale coaches are not too con-
fdent of a decisive victory, although
they do expect that Yale viii WIN.
Brown has always been worthy rival
Tie games m 1895 and 1908 and p
to 0 victory in 1910 have been the
most conspicuous achievements q
Brown against Yale. In 1910 it was
the Brown defeat which brought back
Tom Shevlin 10 take charge of tn,
Yale coaching. Ou4er ms tutelage
the eleven defeated Princeton. 3 to 3,
and played Harvard 70 a scoreless tie
week later.
If the work Of the graduates who
have been coaching this week has do le
nothing else, il has put spirit and
life into the Yale team. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that this will show IL
to-morrow's game, in which every ma.
on the team expects to night from
start to finish. Sheylin has driven
the men at a rapid pace all week. al
though there has been little hard
scrimmaglng.
This afternoon the signal work went
more smoothly than it did yesterday
- - l. e h. -. "a.
noticeable Improvement in the work.
Most Of the graduate coaches were
not on hand this afternoon. Business
matters. a trip to see the Harvard
Princeton game and various othe-
things kept Howard Jones, John XII
patrick, Theodore Lilley and Luciu,
Bigelow away. OF the men who have
returned this week to help, Tom Shev-
lin and Johnny Field were about the
only coaches on the field. A number
of the cripples on the squad, who arr
recovering from injuries or are be
ing saved for the Princeton game, WI.
witness the HarvardPrinceton contes,
tomorrow. Among them are Black,
Higginbotham and "Chub" Sheldon.
The kicking drill this afternoon, OF
which Dr.. William T. Bull was IN
charge. was satisfactory. There are
now three kckers playing on the 'var-
sity, Van Nostrand, Captain Wiiso1
and Bob Bingham. The coaches WI
not decide until tomorrow who VII
do the kicking during the Brown game.
Yale turned out in body tonight
TO the second mass meeting In week
and cheered and sang for an hour
Johnny Field. one of the graduate
coaches. was the principal speaker.
"The Yale team has been new team
since last Monday" he said. at has
new offence and a new defence. Every
thing is changed" lie asserted that ne
was unwilling to make predictions but
he hoped Yale would win the Harvard
and Princeton games. He paid high
tribute to the manner in which FRANK
Hinkey, who was head coach until the
recently organized board Of coaches
took charge of things, had worked IN
harmony with the other coaches and
done a big share in bringing about the
recent improvement in the team.
There was a real Yale man, said
Field of Hinkey. Hinkey was cheered
enthusiastically by the students.
The line-ups OF the two teams 10
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