The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-20
LEG0RE TO HELP DEVELOP
YALE FOOTBALL TEAM BY
PLAYING ON THE SCRUB
He and Other Stars Lost to Athletics
Plan to Keep Blue in Fight---
Gloom on the Campus Despite
Efforts to Cheer Up

NEW HAVEN. Oct. 1s.-The Yale cam
pus is a gloomy place tonight a. the
result OF the announcement hat Ave
members Of the 1915 varsity baseball
team are Ineligible to represent Yale in
athletics because of playing summer
baseball. Keen resentment is felt against
Princeton, where II Is said the protest
against the five Yale athletes originated.
Tho baseball squad held q meeting
this afternoon to elect a successor to
Arthur NJ. Milburn, one OF the mon dis
qualified. as captain. Usually only the
men who won the Y the previous year
are allowed to vote for captain. but to-
there were too few letter men to elect
q new leader.
Harry Legore, the baseball and foot
ball star who was one of those declared
Ineligible. aud Captain Milburn both
spoke. Captain Milburn expressed his
regret at the incident and Legore voiced
similar sentiments. Legore then sug-
gested that Captain Milburn retain his
position rs long as he saw fit and that
asked II. The meeting Immediately voted
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VIII Coach Team.
william Lauder. the new Yale baseball
coach who succeeded Frank Quinby, was
present at the meeting and stirred en-
thusiasm among the men. despite the
gloom which hung over the gathering.
1t was decided to continue the fall prac-
tice and to make an added effort to get
out new men for the team. Pumpelly,
AnZt AlH.n DkAa A-I
Easton, who were disqualified, all agreed
to come to baseball practice during tho
winter and spring. All OF them will
help coach and all will have places on
the second team, which the eligible team
will meet in daily practice.
1t was announced by the football
coaches tonight that Harry Legorc and
William Easton, the two baseball play.
ers who have been barred from further
competition on a Yale football team
by professionalism. will play on the
team of inelig!bles which Frank Hinkey,
the mead football coach. has organized.
This is the team which has been pitted
against the Yale varsity in scrimmage
for the past three weeks. II is the one
that tries out the enemies trick plays
against the regulars and the one that
does much to set the standard Of the
varsity itself.
Legore's assurance to-day that he will
report for football daily was greatly
encouraging TO the coaches. Legore will
give the regulars a taste of what Click
OF Princeton and Mahan Of Harvard may
be expected to do In the big games.
No Mobilization Likely.
Despite the numerous rumors cur.
rent or the campus to the effect that
Harvard has agreed to waive the tech
nlcality by which the five Yale men
have been declared ineligible. II Is ex-
tremely doubtful whether there will DO
any modification of the Yale stand on
the matter as long as the rules exist.
In commenting on the situation to-day
the Yale Neus said:
"Broken-one rule.
There is an old saying that one man
may better steal a horse. than another
look over the hedge Five members of
the university baseball team OF 1915
IN all innoncence looked over the hedge
of summer baseball last summer and
they are now paying the penalty.
w are not cynical. We are merely
stating "a fact hat no one familiar with
college baseball will deny. when We say
that not ethically 10 be sure, but as
far as avoiding the penalty was con-
cerned. they had better have stolen the
horse"