New Britain herald., 1917-10-13
INTER-CLASS SPORTS
ARRANGED At YALE
This Form Of Athletics to Feature
@ Season in New Haven

New Haven, Conn, Oct. 13.-While
yale athletic officials will not admit
that there will be no college sports
this fall with outside teams, they
state that the Yale football teams will
play no games this season against
other colleges, except a freshman
gridiron contest with the Princeton
and Harvard 1921 elevens each.
Instead of arranging matches and
organizing varsity squads after the
opening of college, two weeks ago, the
athletic officials have worked along
the line of class and group teams,
with the result that the football work
this fall will consist of inter- Yale con-
tests largely. There probably will be
no varsity teams in football, rowing
and track athletics.
First Clashes Today.
The class and inter- Yale sport pro-
gram began today. The football
work will be under the direction Of
Head Coach Tad Jones, the rowing
under the coaching Of Professor
Mather Abbott, the former Groton
Schools coach, who has been assistant
coach to Guy Nickalls for two sea-
sons, ami the track work under the
technical direction of Coach John
Mack
Jones is assisted by DR.. Arthur
Brides, the former Yale line coach,
and by Charley Gait who was a men,
Der of the Yale varsity squad last
fall. He would have played guard in
the final games of the season except
for an illness which has kept him out
OF military service.
He is the only member of the var
sity team of last season who is still
In college, every other player having
been enrolled in military service.
Jones and Brides are coaching the
freshman squad, which has the adj
vantage of the best drilling of any
Yale class squad on record.
Five Rowing Crews.
last week to four crews outside. the
freshman class group. The varsity
leader who is directing the work as an
undergraduate is Rufus Hyatt, who
stroked one of the varsity Fights a
year ago. He is the only veteran oars
man of any varsity experience who is
In college.
A lively series of class races will be
held in three or four weeks. The
track squad numbers about sixty, and
it has been decided to hold a fall meet
October 81. The athletes number
none of the veteran material.
Under the arrangement suggested
by Captain Winfield Overton, head Of
the military instruction this fall.
Morduy Wednesday and Friday after
moons will be devoted to military and
the other three afternoons to ath-
letic training. The board of athletic
control has laid down the law that
athletics now exist at Yale only as an
auxiliary to military service and
training, and Captain Overton is
therefore in definite charge of the sit
uation. Any recommendation made
by him will be promptly carried out
by the athletic captains.
Ban on All Pacifists.
Head Coach Tad Jones has laid
down the rule that no undergraduate
can be a member of any athletic squad
who is not enrolled in the military
training squads.
Captain Overton is an inveterate
football fan and a keen lover of COL
lege sport, but he has pointed out
that, because of national conditions,
any athletic arrangements that may
be made must be subject to prompt
cancellation. 1t is by no means i'm
possible, however, that informal
picked up matches may be hurriedly
arranged and played before the season
closes between Yale teams and those
in camps at Plattsburg and Newport.