New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
YALE LINEUP
FOR BIG GAMES
IS FORMIDABLE
Four of the Regulars Are
on Hospital List at
Present

New Haven, Oct. 2z.-For the first
time this season the makeup OF the
Yale eleven in the blue ribbon events
of the Eastern college season can be
predicted. When the season opened
the coaches made known their plan to
secure a permanent playing order, and,
barring accidents, the team which will
line up against Princeton and Harvard
may be now definitely set down as fol-
lows: Left end, Gates; left tackle
Taft; left guard, Captain Black: centre,
Callahan; right guard. Gait; right
tackle, Baldrige; right end, Comerford;
quarterback, Z. T. Smith; left half
back, Bingham; right halfback, lie Gore;
fullback, Jacques.
There is some doubt about Captain
Black playing next Saturday. He un-
derwent a slight operation a day or
two ago, but it was to-day believed
that he would report for practice about
next Thursday, and would be able to
start the game against Washington
Jefferson.
Callahan to Return
Callahan, whose ankle also was In
iured two or three days ago, will be
back in the lineup by the middle OF
the week, it is believed. Quarterback
Traver Smith is expected to resume
light scrimmaging tomorrow and TO
again assume the role of field general
in this weeks practice. His ankle was
twisted in the game against Lehigh ten
days ago.
Gait probably will be right guard,
owing to the illness Of Club Sheldon,
who probably will not be able TO play
again this year.
Perhaps the closest race which is be-
ing waged for any other position on the
eleven is that in progress in the com
petition for fullback, in which jacques
has a fair-sized margin over Jim
Braden. jacques is the marvel OF the
present team in his ability to pierce an
opponents line. Weighing only 40
pounds, he is the most reliable line
borer of the backfeld, his ability to
find a rushline weakness appearing al
most uncanny at times.
Braden, who is twenty pounds
heavier. and Rex Hutchinson, who
weighs practically 200 pounds, had been
tested for six weeks in the role OF
Jacques. Both have disclosed funda-
mental faults in ability TO grasp the
Yale team game and to TT into the
harmonious backfeld action which Tad
Jones, head coach, has demanded.
Only Two Veterans
OF the eleven which may be set
down as tentatively selected as Yale's
final lineup of the season only Cap
tain Black and Bingham are last sea-
sons veterans.
The strength Of the present Yale
coaching system is attested in the re-
markable development of more valuable
second-string players than have been
promoted from third string TO first
string possibilities in one season than
during the last decade at Yale.
At end Moseley, varsity substi-
tute last year, and Frank Lynch,
brilliant freshman end last season; at
tackle, Coke and Otis, freshman tackles
last year; at guard. Graham and Dur
fee, varsity substitutes last season,
and Gait and Zenner, last years fresh
man guards at centre Jack Vorys,
varsity substitute last year, and Rex
Hutchinson, the former fullback; at
quarterback Chester La Roche, fresh
man quarterback last season, and the
veteran Howell Van Nostrand; at half
back Joe Neville, Fife Waite and Stew
art, varsity substitutes last year, and
Harold Carey, the most valuable fresh
man halfback last year, and at full
back, Jim Brsden, compose better re-
serve material than Yale has brought
into form for its final games in years.
Yale's eleven as forecasted for the
final games of the season will average
1873 pounds in weight, will stand feet
10 inches in height and will be 21hz
veprs old