New-York tribune., 1915-11-02
HOPES OF YALE
RISE AS OLD
PLAYERS RALLY
PLAYERS Work on Funda'
mentals Under Direction
of New Mentors.
By BRIGGS
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New Haven, Nov. 1.-The first OF tne
Yale graduates who have been asked
70 come back to New Haven to help
coach the football team reached the
city to-day and took part in the prse-
tice this afternoon.
The list included Lucius Bigelow, Ted
Lilley, Johnny Field. Guy Hutchinson
and Johnny Fitzpatrick. Tom Shevlin,
who has also been asked to come back.
will reach New Haven tomorrow in all
probability.
There was no regular lineup OF
teams this afternoon at Yale Field
All of the men worked in groups and
stress was laid upon the fundamentals
of each position. Bigelow and Lilley
worked with the tackles. Fitzpatrick
took charge of the ends and Field and
Hutchinson worked with the backfield
candidates. There was a better and
more hopeful spirit among the men,
and things looked brighter all around.
Frank Hinkey and the regular staff OF
resident coaches worked with the new
coaches, too.
Hopes of rally jumped still higher
with the announcement that Van
Ostrand, quarterback on the freshman
team last season. has passed of de-
ficiency which prevented him from
competing earlier in the season. Van
Ostrand is counted first rate quarter
back, and will develop into q good man
for the place, the coaches hope. II he
develops Captain Wilson may return
to halfbsck. Talbot said to-day. Belts
and Sheldon are no longer counted
upon for the Princeton game, IL was
said, as they have not sufficiently re-
covered from their injuries.
Commenting on the football situation
at Yale, "The Yale News" says to-day
edtorially:
an 1910 the Yale football team was
defeated by West Point, at . TO q,
played a scoreless tie against Wander
bilt, and was defeated by Brown, at II
TO o. In the one week between the
brown game and the Princeton game
the team was virtually reorganized: An
almost impregnable defence was built
up. Princeton was defeated, to 3, and
the Harvard team, recognized as the
best team that had represented Har-
ward in many years, was held to 0.
at is doubtful if any team stands
higher in the esteem of Yale men than
the team of 1910. In the face OF an
adverse season, fighting against tre-
mendous odds, they did what no foot
bali expert deemed possible. To their
uncomfortable spirit homage will al
WAYS be paid; but to the body Of grad
nate coaches who came back at that
time and really made victory possible
credit is likewise due. They made any
sacrifice necessary to help Yale, and
thew gave gladly all that they knew to
save her from defeat.
"Thc 1915 team stands in just the
same crisis to-day, and it is going to be
met in the same way. Following q de-
feat last year by Harvard, which set a
rev record in Yale defeats, they have
stumbled along, thus far winning only
three out OF six games, and one OF these
by a one-point margin. Physically the
squad is ABOVE the average, and we De-
lieve absolutely that the spirit OF the
men was never finer. They simply
don't know how TO play football. they
have been taught plays, offensive and
defensive, but they have not been
taught how to execute them. In the
days when Yale was the acknowledged
leader in football it WAS fundamentals
that. primarily, made her great. Yale
out-chsrged, out-blocked, out-tackled
her opponents. To-day Yale is being
beaten at her own game. She is not
playing Yale football.
"Thc Hinkey regime has been given
a fair trial and il has failed. The two
recent defeats were not needed to prove
it.
"Only one thing could save the situa-
tion. and that has been done. This
week the men who brought victory to
Yale in 1910 will take control Of things,
among them Tom Shevlin. He will be
surrounded by men who, as players and
coaches, have made Yale football ia
nous. II remains to be seen whether
what was done five years ago can be
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