New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Yale Men Haze High Hopes
Of Strong Football Team
Undergraduates Anxious
for the Return o4 Tad
Jones as Head Coach

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Jan. 25.-Al-
though Yale's football plans for next
season will not be definitely launched
until after the general athletic com
mlttee is reorganized, the undergrad
rate management will have a schedule
ready for announcement before many
weeks, and plans will be laid for the
1919 season. Only handful of former
varsity and freshman players has yet
returned to college, and no early spring
practice is contemplated The new
understanding among Harvard, Prince
ton and Yale calls for no organize d
summer practice, although plenty Of
individual work may be done
No season in the history of Yale
football was ever awaited, however,
with keener zest than that of next fall,
and the largest squad in the history of
Yale is expected to be organized. The
new Yale order. which calls for every
undergraduate to get into some branch
of sport. is expected to result in be-
tween 200 and 800 candidates being
registered for the class elevens which,
+ it is believed, will be formed in con-
junction with the large university
squad.
More football games than were ever
played at Yale in one season will be
scheduled next fall, and the capacity
of the university for playing fields will
be taxed to the utmost.
Only one member of the 1916 eleven.
which defeated Harvard and Princeton,
has yet returned from war service. jim
Braden The plunging fulback is al
ready in training for the weight events
and the hurdle. He has been elected
captain of the track team, and is also
playing on ono of the class basketball
teams. Braden was expected to prove
the most valuable member of the Yale
backiield during the season of 1917,
but war compelled the breaking up of
the most promising eleven to which
Yale had looked forward since Ted
Coy's aggreg CATION of 1909
While it is still too early to predict
how many Of these stellar players will
return to their studies and complete
their Yale course, it is regarded a GER
talnty that Gates, LaRoche, Callahan
and Braden will be included on the
squad.
Gates, it is fully expected, will re-
turn and captain the eleven as orig
inally planned. He has been in ava-
ton service for two years, but it is be-
ieved that he will return to Yale this
spring. During the 1916 season he ewas
regarded as an end of all-American
calbre. He resides in Iowa, but pre-
pared for Yale at the Hotchkiss
School, Lakeville, Conn. He is twenty
two years old, weighs 1870 pounds, and
is six feet tall
Greatly restricted coaching rules will
ne applied to the Yale system the COM
ing fall. 1t will not be possible for a
coaching staff of half dozen members
TO take charge of the development of
the Yale eleven for the season, but the
announcement Of q head coach is ex-
pected to be made shortly.
he undergraduates are eager to Sc
cure the presence again of Tad Jones,
who, taking up the position of head
coach at the beginning of the 1916 sea
son, developed one Of Yale's strongest
teams IN recent years. Jones has gone
INTO business with a shipbuildng irm
IN the Northwest, and it is understood
that he IS doubtful about giving up a
ilne, permanent business opening to re-
turn to the uncertainties of football
coachlng. His contract with Yale has
another year to run, but he is one Of
the highest salaried football coaches in
the country, and the conservative mem
bers of the Yale Football Committee
are not IN favor of the payment Of such
large amount for athletic coaching.
1t is thought that Harry lie Gore
may be induced to come to Yale for
part, II not all, of the season as one
o. the coaches
Oupid BLACK, captain of the 1916
team, is in the marine service. He
expects to be discharged from the
navy this spring and would like to act
as head coach OF some university be-
fore he enters upon permanent busi-
ness career.
If II. NJ. Kempton, captain of the
freshman eleven in 1916, returns to
Yale the team will have one of the
most valuable all-around players who
ever wore the Blue. He was easily the
most brilliant Exeter player Of recent
seasons, and, as Yale freshman cap
tain, displayed wonderful form.
AS LaRoche, Yales field general in
1916, is assured for the team as
quarterback, it is extremely likely that
kempton will be used at halfback if he
returns to the university. Callahan.
who will probably play centre, filled
that position on the Newport naval
team in 1917, but has already left mill
tary service
Braden is regarded as the most
powerful line breaker any Yale team
has enjoyed in recent years. During
his career at Washington and Jefferson
he was used largely at end, but Coach
Tad Jones took him behind the line
on the Yale eleven of 1916 and much
of the most effective ground gaining
against Princeton and Harvard was
furnished by him.