El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-27
YALE CAPTAIN
FAV0RS PEACE
Entertains Captains Of Har-
ward and Princeton to
Aid Friendship.

New Haven, Conn, March 23--Capt-
A1eck Wilson of the Yale fooIDau team
has been chiefly instrumental IN start
ing an important beuWeen-seetSoh SCI
les of visits which are bringing Aale'
Harvard and Princeton INTO more N
innate accord. The visits at the same
time partake Of a social nature
Wilson entertained captains Ned
Nahan Of Harvard, and FRANK CLICK
OF Princeton and will meet them mere
again soon. Che important point as
cussed is the numbering of players.
Uniformity has not been broughI
about Princeton Will continue ne
practice next fall, but Harvard VIII
not take II up. Wilson WaFers between
his wish TO aid the pubic IN enjoying
the game and his desire TO please the
conservative Yale element Wnicn Is
stubbornly opposed to the scheme "
is reported that Yale and Harvard VIII
install a new large score board 1or
flashing the plays
Aside from the conferences Of the
three captains here, Wilson has been
70 Harvard as the guest OF Mahan ana
TO Princeton where he was entertained
by Click.
A Yale-Princeton conference was
recently held in New ork CITY, at
which Wilson and manager Carrlgan
of the yale eleven represented the
university and head coach Rush OF
Princeton. Rush is new TO 4ale-Prince-
ton football and the Yale manaeeme
has offered TO place at his assistance
any material which viii assist MN III
mapping out the Tiger campaign
Frank Hinkey, the Yale head coach
has gone TO Florida with Mrs hlnkey
for a vacation Of several weeks he
viii stop off at Princeton on ms way
back and confer with Rush, WhOm ne
has not met since the latter's appoint
ment as head Of the Tiger coaching
system
Fudge" Heffelfinger. the new Yale
line coach, will not come here Ior the
spring practice of the Eli squad. de
has returned TO his home in St PAU,
Mimi. and will report 70 Chief him
key when the fall work begins early
in September.
Heffelfinger's engagement as line
I coach is q novelty. lie comes as sal
aried official for the first time, ~
{ though he has annually paid Aale a
visit to assist in drilling the r'-sh-line
candidates into coherent snape- HIS
advent means the intro6uctio OF
western football coachin- TO much
greater extent than las been tried
before Heffelfinger has assisted in
developing the UnIT ers1ty OF MIME
sofa eleven for several seasons
"Heff' easily ranks as 4ale's great
est guard Ned Glass was perhaps his
equal for one season, but 'Heff' had
four years il which he pulled Yale
elevens - victory. While Glass was
possibly a greater defensive player,
Heffel ringer was the chief factor IN
the ale interference and his runs,
VIII lie protecting Vance Mccormick,
. -1.Jrn" McClung or Laurie Bliss from
ackIng gave those stars half fof
! their wonderful ball-advancing repu-
tation. He played on the elevens Of
80, 80 81, and 90. Yale defeated all
rivals in 'S9, the eleven captained by
Pa" Corbin. and in 80, the team led
. by McCIung, the former treasurer Of
the United States, VINO died in Lon
don Of typhoid fewer a few weeks ago.
As Aleck Wilson's brother. Tom
Wilson, was head coach at the I'm
iversity of Wisconsin last fall, Yale
viii probably profit from Wisconsin
Z as well as from Minnesota football
ideas the coming season
Training At Annapolis.
Spring football practice of the An
napolis gridirOn warriors is now well
under way. A large squad Of caudi-
dates for this years team has been
out on the athletic field almost daily,
and the work was under the direction
. Of Lieut. Jonas H Ingram, an old navy
star. who has taken up the duties Of
. head coach, succeeding Lieut. Douglas
L. Howard, who served in that capa-
city for four seasons.
The spring practise consists entirely
Of the rudimentary work, such as
kicking and passing, putting and tack
ling, with a little signal and forma-
: tfOn uractfse on the side