The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-21
AL SHARPE WILL BRING
 YALE BACK TO FORM AGAIN
Eli Coach Proved Himself When Coach at Cornell to Be Courageous In Face of Discouraging Obstacles Mistakes Discovered in Boston Game
 Will Be Corrected

years at Cornell. His career as a coach outside of his alma maternal territory is not unlike Haughton's, once of Harvard, For Haughton had experience in coaching the Cornell eleven many years before Sharpe went up to Ithaca, and then went to Harvard and made his reputation. It may be said of Sharpe that he did much better and proved great deal more during his tenure at Cornell than Haughton ever did; and now he has the chance of doing as much at Yale as Haughton did at Harvard, once he got back to the old stamping ground. If Sharpe can put as much kick in the Blue as Haughton inject ed into the Crimson, he will get an interrninabIe contract to run things for Ell.
 Al is no slave driver like Haugh- ton. He keeps his men on edge all the time, but with less sneering and bludgeoning than Haughtou once used, For one thing, though, he is Q great believer in the frame of mind" just as Haughton is. Sharpe knows how to pump courage into the hearts of his men, and he knows the value of getting the jump on the other fellow. In verity, he subscribes to the doctrine of football psyschology quite as much as HaughtOn ever sub- scribed to it.
 Sharpe may be expected to take his Boston College reverse with q great deal more equanimity than any of his rIayers or any of the alumni. He has loads of time in which to bring back the Yale team and give it the 60 xl e before B. c. made it crumpIe. You may be sure, too, that in this hour of misgiving at New Haven, Sharpe will run things his own way. His ideas have been good enough to bring home the bacon in former instances and he'll follow his own bent in the present exigency. If Sharpe is to be the Moses to lead Yale from it's will derness, he'll be Moses enough to furnish his own commandments and make the rest of the bunch conform to them
 Just little fashback of Sharpe as he was before he came to Yale: Tn 1913 he went Up to Cornell and took hold of athletics. The old Red ana White troupe had been battered about by most of the big teams and 2 lot of the small ones. They jus
 wanted to make a decent show ing.
 It was tough going that fall, but the old Doc came through in the end. CorneITs objective is PennsyI- vania, of course, and the game is al ways on Thanksgtving. For the pre- vious 20 years the Penn crowd hat banged the Comedians virtually a
 will, and there was almost no glory at all in whipping them.
 Sharpe worked hard in the fall o1 1913. Ho suffered what looked like the same old fate of former CorneI teams up to the seasons end al PhiIly. And then-surprise of sur. prises - Cornell stepped in ant trounced the Penn men soundly ant ! splendidly- Overnight, Cornell foot ball was revitaEzed; and from tha- year up to this year-Corneu ha. 1 logged along at q wonderful pace. Al repeated his conquest in 1914
 which was the first time that CorneI i ever won the Penn game twice 1T succession. And as if that wasn' | enough, he presented Cornell with it. i only championship team in 1915 i That was the memorable outfit tha. i won everlasting glory by trimming l Haughton- Harvard team.