New Britain herald., 1916-09-07
LIGHT WORK FOR YALE
Ellis First Gridiron Exercises of Sea-
 son Begin With Tad Jones at Helm Forty Players on Hand.

New Haven, Sept. With Field Marshal Tad Jones in command and
 with Clarence Alcott, Dr. William T.
 Bull and Michael F. Sweeney of Yale's executive staff present. Yale's football work for this season was inaugurated yesterday afternoon. A squad of ex- actly forty players reported The heaviest of this number Galt, weighed in at 23 pounds, and the Hghtest Levingsley, at 129 pounds.
 They met Captain Clinton Black at noon for registration, and in the aft
 ernoon went through the first grid
 iron exercises of the season. The work
 consisted of the lightest kind of pass
 ing, falling on the ball, bunting and starting, which was carried on for an hour, on historic Old Yale field, now dismantled of nearly all of it's stands, but still available for daily practice. Among the veterans were Hary Le- gore, whose eligibility through tech
 nicalities last year resulted in a new amateur athletic rule; Howard Bal
 ridge, tackle; Charley Taft, son of
 the former president; Joe Neville, Elf
 fie Waite, Howell Van Nostrand, quar- LorDaCk, ana AIoI 1ttLc5 hlIk pdlIlCh, former freshman tackle, who, it was announced, had left college, reported, but may not be available for play this fall.
 Callahan, the former Holy Cross star, joined the squad. Dr. Arthur Brides and Billy Marting the only missing members of the resident coaching squad, sent word that they will be here for the close of the week. l Announcement was made last night l that Lenny Stagg, coach at Chicago l university, will be here next week to ] assist the staff. He has not coached 1 in twenty-five years, but this season, because of a new western rule, he will 1 not join the Chicago university squad 1 until September 20. Stagg played end on the Yale 1888 and 1889 elevens l and esta ablished the first eleven at the 1 Springfield training school in 1890, l going to Chicago the next year.
 l Head Coach Jones said last evening
 that the Yale work would be extreme l lv light for two weeks The present
 hot wave will curtail it for, the pres l ent aside from Jones' determination ] to drill only conservatively. No line4 l up, even for signal rehearsals is ex- l pected before next week. Jones will 1 have general direction of the coach
 ing, Bull of the backs, Alcott of the
 ends and passing, and Brides and Marting will be in charge Of the line. 1 The list of candidates yesterday in cluded the following: Legore, Hallo-
 we'll, Baldridge, Gait, Rosener, Men
 zies, Gaines, Levingsley, Vorys Taft,
 Stewart, Jacques, Hutchinson, Bridge, Garland, Neville, Jones, Edwards,
 Waite, Winter, M. Smith, Sperry, Con- way. Saunders, Oviatt, Gates, Van Nostrand, Corbin, Potter, Theobold,
 Kirkpatrick, Callahan, Osmund, Rob- 1 inson, Carson, Woods, Zenner, Met
 calf, Thomas and Backus.
 The schedule for the season is as
 follows: September 30, Carnegie Insti
 ute; October ', University of Vir ginia; October IA, Lehigh; October l 20, Virginia Polytechnic lnstl- 1 October 28, Washington aind Jefferson
 November 4, Colgate; November II, l Brown; November IS, Princeton; and | November 25, Harvard. All sames at 1 the Yale field except Princeton.