New Britain herald., 1915-12-13

machine and held Yale powerless to do any damage. The final score was
 the worst beating Yale had ever re- , ceived--no less than Al to 0--coming within seven points of the score of AS ! to- 0 that Yale made aainst Harvard in 1885.
 Nor did any surprise happen in the west, for Minnesota defeated Wiseon- sin 20 to :, and Illinois beat Chicago 10 to O. thus leaving speculation as to i championship in the mddlewest based only upon relative scores for Min nesota and Illinois had previously played a to tie.
 On Thanksgiving Dnv Cornell de- feated Pennsylvania ;A or the latter had led all the way uly A fourth peri cd, in the end running N d over the red and blue A to 9, a.Nl Pittsburg decisively ended Penn States aspira- tions 20 to 0. The powerful Syracuse team, too, was tied by Montana-sug- gestive evidence of western prowess On the Saturday after Thanksgiving the Army and Navy met in New York
 under wretched weather conditions, but before a huge crowd. The Army had been tied by Holy Cross and beat
 en by Colgate, Villanova, and Notre
 Dame, and the Navy had been beaten 1 by Georgetown, Pittsburg, the North ! Carolina Aggies and Ursinus The 1 Army, thanks largely to Oliphant, won IA to 0. Yet, no matter what is said, i the Army Navy game is always an eX- , citing contest. The abandon of the 1 two schools, in the way they play the i game, is worth seeing at any time, and j New York was full of football en- l thusasm. Thus came to a close
 season of startling surprise, and yet it may be fairly said that for the most part the teams ran reasonably true to l their real form, though they were at times somewhat erratic. Cornell and Pittsburg were undefeated, and, al- though Cornell defeated Harvard, ] Pittsburg could claim that her final game with Penn State was more de- l cisive victory and more conclusive
 than was Cornell's over Pennsylvania
 It was a pleasure to welcome back l into the American football fold Col
 umbia University under Coach Met
 calf, and also to find the University
 of California taking up the game once l more on the Pacific Coast
 The season marked the continuation
 of deterioration in several of the for
 merly so-called big teams. notably
 Yale and Pennsylvania. To win IT
 football requires the apparent con
 tradiction of the czar principle and the
 consent of the governed-let there be | no mistake, it requires both Of these
 factors. It may go under any name
 you please, and the same system may
 sometimes be known as a head coacf with sole authority and at other
 times as "board of coaches, with g
 captain or field coach in charge. Blu } one is exactly the same as the other it means that one man must have the general planning of the campaign however lieutenants may carry out thu l principles of it and he must have th "consent of the governed and b! ) that is meant, not the consent of thu Y players alone but of the assistants ant l would-be advisers.
 From practical experience I woult ) say that when men really cares fol football as a sport and has played l it, number of years and followed - by seeing many other teams play, m 5 gradually accumulates a set of ''do's
 and dont's" which enable him to mak
 progress without repeating the expert
 nents that have proved mistakes
 Then if, instead of endeaVoring wit !" the blackboard to talk to fifty or sixt . men, he gets a few loyal coaches an ,ia members of his squad during tn " winter and spring to talk over tn . last season and former seasons play :" and possibilities, he soon finds tha " the whole body of fifty or sixty ar H rapidly absorbing football. He gradu 70 ally builds up football team tha , will win, because his players are the '' nc longer dummies, but actual think
 ing human beings who have studie 1t out with him their own problems, wh ~. have had definite interest besid " blind obedience, and who, when the E V, go out, are quite competent to de <, velop teams and systems of their owi a4 It is a wonderful game, and it pro ,o vides the greatest study in human na ,d ture. Haughton has carried it out /. perfection; so have Al Sharpe at Cor a rell and Harry Williams at Minnesota st Stagg at Chicago, Gilman Dobie z ,a Washington, Sanford at Rutger 0N Zuppke at Illinois, Donahue at Al - burn, Folwell at Wash. and Jefferson
 Yost at Michigan. pr. Lambeth at Vii . sinia, and others elsewhere. Ta JCnes at Exeter has been accomplish
 ing similar results So also hal
 Rush at Princeton and Warner w Pittsburg. They have been beate ,. (Dobie excepted) sometimes but tn: V is an incident.
 In the great lessons of play deve
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