Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-09-07
HARVARD FOOTBALL Team
STARTS 1916 Practice
united Press stan Correspondent.

United Press Stan Correspondent.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. with
Eddie Mahan lost to the team by grad
uation, and with such stars as Don
Wallace, Emie Soucy, Don Watson,
Ken Parson, Dick King and Ross
Cowan also gone by the same route,
Harvards 1916 football squad trotted
onto the field today for its first fall
workout.
Two. perhaps three, Of the men,
who started in the game last fall IN
which Crimson ran wild against Yale,
will be in the lineup this fall. Cap
tain Hal Dadmun, guard, and DICK
Harte, end, we're on the field today
and Billy Boles, who withdrew last
winter from college, has sent WORD
that he will be back.
Field Coach Leo II. Leary will be
in charge of the squad along with
Captain Dadmun, until Percy Haugh-
ton. who is president of the Boston
National League Baseball Club, can
leave his duties in Boston and get
into action.
Morning and afternoon sessions
will be the lot of the candidates Tor
the Nrst two weeks. Captain Dad
nun will be in charge in the morn
ing sessions and Coach Leary in the
afternoon.
Reggie Brown, Harvard's scout
coach" who watches the big teams in
action. and then reports back to Har-
ward will assist Leary early in the
season.
Browns work is one Of the most
important parts of Harvard's coach
ing system. He dopes out the plays
Of rival elevens for the scrub teams
and then sends them against the var
sity in those formations. The var
sity squad maps out a defense against
these. plays in order to become ac-
customed to them. His work is ex-
pected to prove a valuable part OF
the training for this years squad.
Derric Parmenter and Don Wallace
will help the linemen learn the in
tricacies Of Haughton's style Of play;
Dick Wigglesworth will have charge
Of the quarterbacks and Gil Browne
will coach the ends.
Five H" men beside Captain Dad
nun and Harte will be available.
They are Coolidge end; Morse Tay-
lor, guard: Horween and Robinson,
backs, and Harris. a clever center.
Robinson is the man on whom Har-
ward football fans are pinning their
hopes. He has showed marked pro
ficiency in field goal kicking. and with
proper coaching, he is expected to
develop into a kicker At to fill the
the shoes of Charles Brickley, the
man who sent Harvard victories sail
ing over goal posts when the backs
were unable to plunge their way
through the field.
Coly College will be the opening at
traction for Cambridge. Harvard will
meet this eleven September %.
Chief Johnson, the Indian pitcher,
who was with Cincinnati. and then
hoped to the Feds, thereby becoming
the bone Of contention between the
Feds and organized baseball. again is
in the limelight. He has strayed from
the narrow path and Manager Hamil-
ton Patterson, Of the Vernon Pacific
Coast League club. has threatened
him with suspension. Johnson's ca
reer has been Of the proverbial
checkered kind. but he still has it
in him to become a great pitcher if he
will stick to training.
Tub Spencer is the greatest exam
pie in baseball Of what perseverance
will do. Once a big Lacquer and re-
nowned as a great catcher, he was
striker with illness. and a fondness
for the bright lights. He completely
disappeared from the game, and then
one day popped up in the Pacific
Coast League. He steadily developed,
kept away from the night life, and
now is with Detroit. catching some
great games. He is one Of the few
TO come back and make a good job
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