New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-02
YALE WILL VARY
ITS ATTACK IN
FOOTBALL GAMES
Tad Jones Plans TO Follow
system Different from
That of Hinkey.

New Haven, Oct. departure from
the simple line attack which marked
Yale's style Of football in the opening
match yesterday viii be made by Head
Coach Tad Jones in the scrimmaging
for this week.
Jones has divided the three weeks Of
practice since the squad reported into
three periods Of development. He gave
the first TO pure rudimentary drill the
second 10 signal rehearsal and the
third, or present, week to sharp but
carefully supervised scrimmaging, with
attack and defence trained in the de-
tails of straightway football.
Straight line plunges alternated with
end runs of simple character, punctu-
ated with the threat Of the forward
pass, have comprised the rep rtory OF
play. How we'll Jones's painstaking
coaching in rudimentary drill and in
straight football has brought results
is visible in the score rolled up against
Carnegie Tech.
Jones on New lacks.
Jones has begun the seasons coach
ing campaign on lines directly at vari-
ance with those pursued by Frank
Hinkev. head coach last season. Hinkey
PURSUED the will-o-the-wisp Of revolu-
tionarv attack into the graveyard Of
defeat at the hands of half the minor
elevens on the Yale card. To defeat
Yale. Harvard and other wisely coached
elevens had only TO retain the ball.
keep the offensive and crumple the
starnant Eli line.
Yet the two Yale Hinkey-coached
eIevens started the season fully as
brilliantly as that va.ch Field Marshal
Jones hurled yesterday at Carnegie
Tech. Their weakness was not revealed
tiu mid-season was reached, when It
was too late 20 adopt a new coaching
poI;cv. although Hinke!, sobered by
the ease with which Iale's little col
Isce rivals were waxing through the
big university rush line, tried TO bulld
ND an eleventh hour defence which dld
not extend 10 knowledge OF diagnosing
Harvard's attack. and the curtain went
down on Hnkey's TWO elevens with
an adverse score of SO and IL TO v IN
their TWO Harvard games.
Tad Jones changed everything. ne
Yale eleven which met Carnegie Tecn
was firmly grounde1 IN the essentials
Of football and 10 reeled straight at
tack against the P.ttsburghers with
the speed, accuracy and finish OF exc
cution of the Yale elevens captalned
bv Bum McClung. Vance Mccormick,
Gordon Brown. George Chadwick and
Ted Coy
Having given this demonstration OF
effective coaching up 10 the present
tine. the present Yale board OF STRAIT
erv has laid plans 20 broaden It's Inc
Of attack tie coming week. and al
though this will be done with the par
Nd az Yale Field the plays taught are
s1~e 10 be some Of the more complicat-
ed line and end attack formations ana
the mazes possible with the forward
pass.
Jones has begun the Yale PLAYING
season showing reliance on straight
football but the adaptability Of the
eleven will be shown next Saturday IN
tho game against University Of Nir--
pinia. when the more complicated
formations viii be uncovered. at least
r Yale is pushed.
Virginia Trouble Maker.
Virginia was the first trouble maker
on tho Yale schedule last season. The
Coutherners. in their first appearance
fere in their football history. outpiayed
Yale and registered a 10 TO defeat
against her. It's sting was lntensihed
hv the fact that Yale was unable 70 re
cord point or any kind OF scoring
football against an eleven which was
not included among the strongest dozen
teams in American colleges. The score
tore OF the mask. laid bare fale
weaknesses and gave the coaches ample
time % remedy them.
Enough evidence was IN the posses
sion of the football committee after
the defeat Of Virginia last year IN the
second game Of the season to discard
the vicious coaching system. but the
committee remained inert Hinkey was
not deposcd for four weeks longer. ana
Yale suffered defeats in quick success
sion at the hands OF Washington-Jei.
ferson. Colgate and Brown and escaped
humiliation from Lehigh by the margin
OF : 10 G score As President HAD
lev OF Yale has expressed IL, yale attn
le+ics went into receivers hands at
Tho close Of the football season.