Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-04
FRANK HINkEY A
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Commenting on the football situation at Yale. the Yale News says Monday editorially:
 In 1910 the Yale football team was defeated by West Point. to 8, played a scoreiess tie against Vanderbilt. and was defeated by Brown q to 0. In the one week between the Brown game and the Princeton game the team was vir- tually reerganizeds An almost i'm pregnable defense was built up. Prince ton was defeated. 5 to 5. and the Har- ward team. recognized as the best team that had represented Harvard in many years, was held 0 to 0.
 It Is doubtful if any team stands the team of 1910. In the face of an adverse season. fighting against tre- mendous odds, they did what no foot ball expert deemed possible. To their unconquerable spirit homage will all ways be paid; but to the body of grad uate 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 they gave gladly all that they knew to save her from defeat.
 The 1915 team stands in just the same crisis today. and it is going to be met in the same way. Following a de- feat last year by Harvard, which set a new record in Yale defeats. they have stumbled along thus far. winning but three out of six games, and one of these by a one point margin. Physic- ally the squad is above the average. and we believe absolutely that the spirit Of the men was never finer. They simply don't know how to play foot ball. They have been taught plays, of fensfve and defensive, but they have not been taught how to execute them. In the days when Yale was the ac- knowledged leader in football it was fundamentals that, primarily, made her great. Yale out-charged, out blocked, out-tackled her opponents. Today Yale Is being beaten at her own game. She is not playing Yale foot ball.
 The present coaching system has been accorded the loyal support that Yale undergraduates additionally give to the men selected to coach their teams. They rely upon the superior judgment of the graduates and the undergraduate captains in choosing them and they realize that their part in helping to build up a winning sys- tenn is to back up these men. to sup port them in every way possible and, Whether or not this blind confidence the un4uestioned support, is right, we do not know. In the long run, no doubt, it is. In this particular crisis, however. to continue to profess a. con- fidence which no one feels is hypocrisy 300 bald to be tolerated. Facts, no matter how unpleasant, must be faced. The Hinkey regime has been given a fair trial and 1t has failed; the two recent defeats were not needed to prove it.
 Only one thing could save the sit uation and that has been done. This week the men who brought victory to Yale ip 1910 will take control of things. among them Tom Shevli1. He will be surrounded by men who. as players and coaches, have made Yale football famous. It remains to be seen whether what was done five years ago can be done today. We believe it can. Confidence will be reborn in the graduates. the undergraduates and, most important of all. in the team it. self, and it will sweep them along. we are enthusiastically inclined to believe, to victory on Nov. 13 and 20. Let the discouragements of the past season be 'forgotten. Much can be done in two weeks