Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-24
POSTPONED SCHOOL CONTESTS
! ARE BOOKED THIS AFTERNOON
Western Meets Tech, Central Plays Business
in Interhigh Base Ball Series Sentiment
Favors Numbering Foot Ball Players.

ment of a few weeks ago to the con-
trary stirred UP storm of protest nol
only among metropolitan sporting
writers. but among Yale graduates. one
of whom wrote d very scatching com
munication to the Yale Alumni Weekly
on the subject. However. one cannot
help feeling about eleventh hour con-
versions in general that they are apt
to be the indication and the result NOT
so much of change of heart as OF
mind. Did Capt Black and his ad-
vlsers-perhaps | should say or his ad-
visers-see the light, or merely the
handwriting on the wall?
At all events Yale will wear num-
bers. Now it is distinctly up to Har-
ward"
An alumnus of a certain big univer-
s1ty recently became somewhat Ills
susted with the continued objections
OF the captain of the eleven at his
"a INA mater to numbering players-the
objections being based on the ground
that the game was played for the stu
dents and not for the public-and wrote
rather scathing letter to one of the
school papers. Here is an excerpt from
the letter. names being omitted:
me objection made is so puerile and
to dignity it with a reply: but in order.
II possible. to help boost him out of
ms swaddling clothes and off his nurs-
ing bottle, the following is ventured
He says that if spectators do not take
SUFFICIENT interest in the players to
learn to recognize them without the
numbers. they would not be interested
even though the numbers were at
tached
After - has cut his second set of
teeth and begins to know the use to
Whlch razor and strnp is put he will
perhaps learn that there are men as
iar away even as California who, if
Iney can do so by hook or crook. will
merely for the sake of taking in the
hls game. | defy - to maintain that
,hese men are not interested. They
nave no possible means of identifying
the players unless they are numbered
AS a graduate who cannot keen in
touch with the players | know that
me numbering of the players adds to
the enjoyment of the game. | challenge
- to say that he knows more about
the graduate point of view than do
As a matter of fact, there are some
forms of offense in foot ball which the
NUMBERING of players would not affect
~ 'he ieast; there are others TO which
~ would be serious disadvantage Par
tculariY is the latter true of Harya rd
where, there is decided sentiment
against the idea. Harvard offense has
as It's haseWork. deceptiveness, coupled
with real strength and power. This is
secured IN seemingly simple and use
SIM l. put III lnat Sh1ft lies one of
the main secrets of it's strong scoring
power There are certain men in the
me and backfeld whose positions are
concealed very cleverly in the shift and
Whlie as far as the number of men on
either side of center, or their apparent
posltlons are concerned, the lineup is the
same as before the wheel from one side
OF center to the other there is in reality
d great deal of difference in the strength
OF certain positions. got by the inter
changing OF men unknowingly to the de-
detect even by a scout sitting in the $50
put II big numbers were sewed on the
packs OF the jerseys it would not take
the real foot bail expert five minutes to
diagnose the situation. "