New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-19

take the matter IN hand. !.
Budd Talbot, captain last year and'
LOW on the coaching staff at New
Haven, told me yesterday that he per-
sonally was in favor of numbering the
PLAYERS. and that Frank Hinkey, so long
ago as last year, had no objections TO
cffer. The question, he said, simply
was not taken up so seriously as no
doubt il deserved, and that so far as ne
knew Yale was not antagonistic TO
practice which had proved so popular.
This was heartening. Apparently it
remains only for Professor Corwin'
chairman of the athletic committee, or
the head coach, or possibly the captain
of next years eleven, TO give the ques'
ton enough thought TO order numbers
for the Jerseys early next season ~hen
the men first report for practice. Ihat
over, IL will be necessary 10 convince
Percy D. Haughton. Harvards 1eao
coach, that numbering the players does
not neut-alize the value of some OF his
ret shifts and formations.
The time is at hand when the major
ity of those who look on will not leave
Inc Uelu anu HutllCuAS PNANh"oN
raper 10 find out who made some bril-
liant run or who scored some touch
down or kicked a goal. when perchance
even that paper may be wrong for the
same bewiidering reason. The diff
Guilty OF identifying the players, and
the greater difficulty, at times, OF con
frming what may be guess, with
time so short, Is mountainous. Time,
tide and a newspaper form waits for
nobody.
Tom Shevlin wants, or in any case
would like, eight days more with the
Yale football eleven. There are some
things which even Tom Shevln can't
get.
Several New York sport critics"
writes T. S. Perkins, seem TO think
that the Colgate football machine fell
apart here last Saturday. On the con-
trary, it was ripped apart by the
heaviest team in the country and one
fortunately possessing remarkably
speedy backs and the most wonderful
interference | have ever seen to shield
the runner II seems to me that SYRIA
cuse should get more credit for the
football the eleven has played this
year."
Syracuse does deserve high credit,
and. as was said in this column on
Wednesday, if the team beats Dart
mouth tomorrow il will earn rank with
the best four or FIVE in the East. Will
kinson seems to be the Maulbetch of
the present season. AS a line plunger
he has few, if any, equals. Against
Colgate he averaged close TO five yards
IL = h. ID 49, ave.
times he carried the ball. As an out
and-out battering-ram back he seems TO
be in a class by himself.
John J. Hallahan, sporting editor of
THE Boston Herald" who umpired the
lgate-Syracuse game, says that
White and Schlachter, especially the
latter, played in a way to make them
leading candidates for all-America
honors. Both, by the way, are former
New York schoolboys.
Spear, Of Dartmouth, is generally
credited with being the best guard on
the Eastern gridirons. He will be put
to the test tomorrow, when opposed to
the giant White, and a comparison be-
tween the two in that game will do
much 10 settle much mooted question.
According to figures at hand, SYRIA
cuse gained $50 yards by rushing,
against 159 for Colgate. Syracuse also
completed seven out Of eleven forward
passes for ninety-seven yards. If this
be true, the only wonder is that the
score was not bigger.
Dudley S. Dean, whose judgment is
respected among football followers, has
the following TO say IN The boston
Globe:
"Yale may win. Thus one independ-
ent Boston expert puts 1t, but he adds
that she shouldn't II Harvard plays her
game. That, to my mind, about states
the situation, only il cannot be TOO
greatly emphasized that the Crimson
game must be played TO the limit at its
ton of shirt. steadiness and skill TO be
awarded the verdict. Cambridge has on
her hands the toughest proposition she
mas encountered in four years"
Mr.. Dean adds that the Yale players
tackle harder and "far better" on the
whole, than the Harvard men, which on
the play Of both teams against Prince
ton 10 largely true, and then, referring
70 Guernsey, he says:
1T will again be primarily a kicking
game by both sides. Yale's punting
game will be good, and, in fact. her
largest single asset Yet il will not
be as good, | believe, as against the
Tiger; In saying this doubtless the
wish Is daddy 70 the thought, and Mr..
Guernsey certainly has a most danger
Gus toe and instep.
Yet by the law OF averages and all
mast history 1T would be very odd n
this boy fully repeated on November 20