El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-04
YALE SFOOTBALL
PLAN COMPLETED
Five Men Who Know Game
From Every Angle Will
Coach Ellis Squad.

New York. May Final details OF
the Yale football coaching system for
the coming season have been completed
after some months OF conference and
consideration. with the result that the
Eli gridiron machine will make a new
start next fan under the direction OF
experienced player-coaches. New
coaches and systems are no longer
novelty at Yale. and in recent years
the changes have not lifted the play
OF the elevens to the heights reached
, by the teams Of past decades.
The personnel OF the new coaching
lroup promises well in Tad Jones,
Mike Sweeny DR.. Billy Bull Arthur
Mcbride and Clarence Olcutt. the Blue
las brought together five men who
know football both from the PLAYING
and coaching standpoint With Walter
Camp i'm an advisory capacity and Will
liam Martiug as freshman coach, the
circle is well rounded out and should
produce results from the very Begin
ming. Yale has the material for re-
preventative eleven this autumn and
with cooperation among the candi-
dates undergraduates and alumni
should prove formidable.
HnuEhton 20 Direct Harvard.
10 must not be forgotten. however,
i.at Harvard Will have HaughtOn back
10 direct a coaching policy which is
now firmly established at Cambridge
and that Speedy Rush at Princeton
IS well advanced along the same lines.
tastern college football has reached
the point where il is little short OF
complicated science and success
against wei developed system cannot
De achieved in few months.
Many close observers hold to the
opinion that the new group OF Yale
coaches viii not attempt radical
changes but rather revert TO some eN-
-
The slump OF the past few years
While such changes as are necessary
70 bring the play up-to-date viii, Of
course, be installed, the coaches are
likely to go back over the past few
seasons and pick up the broken
Threads. as Yale has had a coaching
'4system since 1888.
Previous TO that date there was
no coaching policy. From 1889 10 1895
the captains did the chief coaching,
advised by Walter Camp. and assisted
by returning graduate players Then |
ensucd a period OF ups and downs dur
ing which all-season head coaches
were in charge and no particular
graduate was at the helm. But strong i
graduate support was given the cap /
tains, and Brink Thorpe's and Jim /
Rodgers teams won striking successes. !
\ third period then came in, Of ten /
years, beginning with McBride's 1899 |!
team, duriag which the now traditional /
Yale football coaching system was de-
volopcd.
Full Power In Captains.
Under this system the captain had
full power. Generally the preceding
captain was head or field coach. Camp I
was chief adviser. and each year every
body came back and was assigned :
special position coaching to do. Dur
ms this period Yale won both from !
Harvard and Princeton eight times. I
tied once, and lost twice-sixteeu vic
tories, two ties. and four defeats. From
1910 TO 1913, the old system wavered
Or was regained year 10y year. each
captain making attempts to stem the
tide Of disaster due TO a diversity OF +
causes mot the least Of which was the
rise OF stronger cOmpetitorsD and try
ing out new coaching systems. Tho
last two years have seen still more
radical effort to reorgauizc, but with
out success.