Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-08
HARVARD SYSTEM USED
Johns HOPKINS FINDS
CRIMSON METHODS AID
oniy Southern School Using style
brought by Rricki"y-:'rusNc"ts
Are Encouraging.
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Especial 10 The Times Di.patch1
baLTlMORE. October 1.-The axiom
mat success brings IA host OF imita-
tors mas an exception in football
soutn OF the Mason and Dixon line
Johns Hopkins University is the only
institution OF Importance in the South
using the Harvard system of coaching
as developed by Percy Haughton to the
glory of the Crimson in recent years
rms fact * surprising when tho sue
cess OF the Harvard plays and methods
OF developinc football materials is
considered. but the coaches of all the
other Southern college teams are
working along lines that have been
thought out in other ig-league" foot
ball centers
AT Virginia the Yale system. in
stalled there many years ago bv Franz,
ittnkcy. still is followed. Georgetown
mas ENendine. IA Carlisle graduate:
North Carolina sticks 10 Princeton tao
tics; Vanderbilt to the Michigan plan.
and the Navy to "a combination Of the
Yale and Princeton play. with just a
touch OF Harvard injected last year
under adverse circumstances by Tacks
liardwick as assistant coach
Until the season of 1915. the Hopkins
coaching system followed the Yale
plan. AS brought to Baltimore by Linn
and Jack Gates. the old Yale end. The
only deviation Cand it is possible that
here the BLACK and Blue authorities
may have booted onc') was in the
employment OF Bob Folwcll as assis-
tant coach shortly after he left Penn
sylVania. Folwell did not shine a.
Hopkins, but he really had no chance
TO shine. The genius tina, since has
brought Washington and Jefferson up
into the front rank. and is now un-
dertakins PENIS comeback. was stincd
by lack OF authority I'm Baltimore
Brennicll suited to Task.
Last year the Hopkins Athletic AS
ISOLATION decided to inject new pen into
the univerSity's football affairs and So
lected Charlie BriclIley as the proper
cruet from which 10 shake tho Pepper:
and Brcklcy shook it--so vigorously
that his system blinded all the other
Maryland aggregations and Hopkins
marched through her State season with
out a defeat This season Rricklev
was una BILE to return to Baltimore, and
the job of continuing the Harvard sys-
tom was given 10 Henry Brcnnick who
was assistant to Bricltley I'm 1915.
Brennick is cmincntly fitted for the
JOB. Although he was never star at
Harvard. being handicapped by lack OF
weight, he knows football from seam
10 seam. He was captain of the liar-
ward scrubs in his senior year at Cam
bridge and has kept his fingers on tho
pulse OF big league" football ever
SlItS re is cousin OF tnarlpN bail V.
the old Harvard and West Point star.
and numbers Eddie Mahan. Joe Gilman,
Tacks Iiardwick ana many other IIar-
ward men. who carried out HauGhtons
policies, among his closest friends.
Last year they sent Brcnnick many
hints and suggestions which he incor-
roratcd in his work at Hopkins, and
his season. when he is in full con-
troll, they are planning TO help him
sim further. Gilman. all-American
tackle and captain-elect OF Harvard
until he left college. will he at. An
napolis for short time as assistant
coach. and has told Brcnnick that he
VIII come 10 Baltimore occasionally to
give his line the "oncc over"
Brennick's assistant Is Paul Willlin-
son, tackle on last years eleven. and
the man whom Rrickley declared would
make any team in the country. Will
Einson weighs 200 pounds and is six
feet two inches tall. He will have
charge of the linesmcn.
The loss of Big Wilkic" was the
only serious blow sustained by Hop
htns through graduation. The late
opening Of the university has detained
some of the men who were on cnCi-
neering trips. but. all OF them have
been heard from and are anxious to
get into a suit once more