The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-07
keep YOUR EYES
ON YALE eleven
This Years Blue Team One of
the Strongest In Years.
JONES ADOPTS OLD SYSTEM
Head Coach Is Developing the Bull
dog, Along Lines of Years Ago-Ls
Gore and Bingham Two Star Backs.
No lndividualisn1 at New Haven.

NO lnOlNluualiSn1 at NEW raven.
All doubt as to the regeneration of |
Yale football is being rapidly dispelled. |
Old Eli is well along the road to a full |
grown comeback. The team has shown !
enough in early games to convince the |
most pessimistic that the bulldog has |
decided to reform, that it has decided |
to mend its football ways and that the |
six years of famine are about at an
end. This is no prediction that when !
Yale meets Princeton and later meets |
Harvard the blue win ride roughshod |
over these ancient rivals and win. |
Yale may win one or both of these
games, and, again, 1t may not win
either But one thing is certain, the
Yale of the present knows more foot
ball than any Yale team has at this
time in tina last seven years.
During the stretch of time most of
Yales football has been theoretical. 1t
has been taught. for the most part, ac-
cording to theory. There was little of
the practical about its playing. 1t was
weak In fundamentals and. this being
true, it could not be expected that its
game would be anything but weak In
all details. a football team weak in
fundamentals is much like the house
that was built upon sand. There is no
foundation upon which to erect the SUI
perStructure, and, no matter how fin
ished the superstructure may be, it
cannot stand if there is no foundation.
hps H. l., a.
in Yale football in recent years. The
team has been rich in material. 1t has
had Gust as good material when con
sidercd collectively as the successful
Yale teams of other years. But ma
terial without an expert mechanic to
mold IL together and perfect it cannot
be expected to play in the rough and
| decorate a gridron with very many
victories.
All the newfangled systems and be-
liefs that Tad" Jones fell heir to
when he was appointed head coach at
New Haven have been relegated to the
used and found wanting" heap by the
once great player. He has skipped
backward across the span of six
| gloomy years to that time when Yale
and football success were synonymous,
and the Bulldog is once more being
| developed along those lines which
| Jones knows so we'll and which he
helped to make so successful while
| player.
1t is expected that by the time
Yale moves into its big games-those
| against Princeton and Harvard-its
| repestoire will be fairly complete with
masked formations and trick plays
| destined to catch the Tigers and the
crimson off guard. for Jones is con-
coded to he tactieian Of ability.
| Certain it is, regardless of the out
come of these games, that Yale will
be capable of and will play more foot
bah than any blue team in many fu-
tile seasons of football effort
With lie Gore and Bingham doing
duty in the back field New Haven
boasts of a pair of backs who are the
equals OF any playing 1916 football
Both have proved their ability as
ground gamers. They are fast and
hard runners. They are equally pro-
ficient at line plunging and circling the
ends. Furthermore. lie Gore is rap
idly developing an educated toe for
kicking. If either Of them should be
injured or in any other way prevented
from taking part in the big games of
the campaign Yale will be seriously
handicapped. .......
T The fact that lie Gore was Ineligible
to play year ago was Il severe blow,
but even with such an expert Shout
dering Il quantity Of blue hopes it is
doubtful whether the Ellis would have
made any materially better showing
than 1t did. The fact that it was able
to defeat Princeton when it seemed
that the Tigers were primed to tread
all over the Bulldog alleviated in n
measure the subsequent slaughter al
Cambridge. Had lie Gore been able
to play Yale might have run up u
bigger total against Princeton, but
there is little reason to believe that
his individual efforts could have had
any big effect in the Cambridge dis
asteT.
However, Jones seems to be succeed
ing in making more Of a unit of the
Yale team, and, although blue foot.
ball is naturally largely built around
the playing of lie Gore, there is less
individualism apparent than for many
seasons.