New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Coaches Give
Harvard Squad
The Once Over
Big Staff of Mentors Size
Up Candidates and Pros
poets for Crimson Eleven

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. 6.-After
having spent a week with their back
6eld candidates and drawing a pretty
good line on what material there is on
hand, the Harvard football coaches will
not begin work on the rushline. Mon
day the candidates for tackle. guards
and centre, as we'll as more men for
end rushers, will return to Cambridge.
and the coaches then will settle down
TO the hard work of whipping q football
team into shape.
Harvard's new coaching regime is
headed by Robert 7. Fisher. who played
three years varsity football on Cam
bridge teams and who, as all-America
guard, was captain of the eleven back
in 1911. Associated with him and ac-
lively on the field will be other players
either contemporary with Fisher or who
have made good as Harvard football
players since his time. All the coaches
were brought up under Percy Haugh.
tons football system, ard this doubt
less will be followed as closely as pos
sible.
Well Supplied with Coaches
For his backfeld coaches Fisher has
three former quarterbacks, Wiggles-
worth. Of the 10 team; Gardner, first
string quarter in 1912, and Watson, the
field general of Mahan's team four
years ago. Hardwick, one Of the great
est ends and halfbacks who ever played,
will be one Of the back field assistants.
For the line Harvard will he we'll on
with Walter Trumbull, of the IA team;
Snow, of the 'l6 team, and one of Har-
wards best end rushers, Charley Cool
idge. Derrick Parmenter will handle
the centres, and Sam Fulton, the var
sity kicker of nearly ten years ago,
will coach the punters.
Next week probably not less than 100
players will be on the field. Nearly
thirty backs worked out last week, and
some of them looked good for the max
ings of team at Cambridge, which has
not had a real varsity outfit in three
years. There is little experienced var
sity timber on hand. but good col
lection of players from recent fresh
men and service teams.
With one exception. the returning
varsity men Of 1916 are for the back
field, the list including Billy Murray,
uuarte rback: Horween and Casey. half
backs, and FELTON,. a promising kicker.
FELTON, may be used at end, for which
place Morris Phinney, Of the 1916 team,
also Is available. Both Murray and
Horween have played two years on real
varsity squads at Harvard.
Burnham. halfback. and Batchelder.
I'D, ri To-
ers who have been tried out under
already having been placed in the
frst string backfield Batchelder,
however, injured his leg last year, and
the coaches are not counting on him.
Hadley and Woods as Tackles
Two tackles, Hadley and Woods,
from the 1920 freshman, and two
guards from the same team, Thorndike
and Stubs, are on hand, as well as
two 1920 centre rushes, Philbin and
Morrison. Hadley and Woods were
rated as varsity elgibles three years
ago. Woods, however, is likely to be
shifted to guard, while Hadley should
have the makings of q great tackle.
A tackle from the 1921 freshmen,
Sedgewick, and 1922 freshman tackle,
McTage. captain of his class crew, are
expected to show something, as are the
two 1921 freshman guards, Olmstead
and Stillman. Arnold Horween, back
on the 1920 freshman, and captain of
the informals two years ago, probably
will be tried on the rush line. Caswell
o big man for centre, handled himself
we'll last week, and Havemeyer. Brown,
Eaxon and Fiske are other we'll put up
members of the squad Of linemen.
Phinney is the best of the ends. of
whom not many are as yet in sight
Desmond, big fellow, and formerly at
Lehigh, was out three years ago and
has returned again this fall. Ryan,
of last years S. A. T. c. team, is an
other wing. He is fast and had suf-
ficient range and weight. FELTON, may
be used at end, but the job to develop
Harvard's usual string of good wings
will be one of the hardest the coaches
will have.