The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-21

New Haven, Oct. 21-Al Sharpe has 3, mans task in front of him this week. His Yale team gouged by Boston College and half dozen vet erans fin the infirmary, Sharpe must set about to shape his residue for Its three last tests with Brown, Prince ton and Harvard. Which is no in considerable task for even a miracle man,
 They ought to be glad they have Sharpe at Yale this fall. What the routed Blue outfit will need for re- suscitat1on Is Just what Sharpe is ca pablo of giving 1t. He is no ne crornancer to produce 8 stonewau line where brittle pickets stood before, nor can he wave his wand and make to appear a dazzling backheld where previously some dubs had performed. But happily, Yale requires no magic work this season. All Yale needs to recover from its present slough of despond ts a savage yet sympathetic coach-one that can drive without wounding, And Al Sharpe Is just saat man.
 Nobody understands how to pull a team from the sub-cellars of despair better than this same old Doc at Yale, He took Cornell when the Ithacans were a doormat for all con- tenders and shaped them into a team that not only held its own against the big timers, but even crushed them with a vengeance. He had to overthrow 20 years of dismal tradition to do it, but he did. He placed Cornell in the high estate 1t enjoyed for the three years that led up to footballs cessa ton because of the war; and what he did for Cornell he can do with greater ease for Yale
 Yale has taken a drubbing from Boston College, but it has also taken a lesson. And it is written in the book of football that it is better to have g. teams defects shown up in preliminary games than in the final drive of the season. Before the Eli schedule is finished, Yale may have cause to rejoice that the Boston Col lege upset occurred in the middle of October-with plenty of time to recufy Eli mistakes than much later In the fall when Princeton and Harvard games were at hand.
 Yale has four full weeks before it's match with Princeton. The week be- fore It jostles with the Tigers it must meet Brown, but the Bruins are not to be feared this autumn. Harvard outclaSsed them in the Stadium Sat urday, and stronger than Brown even though the score was to O. The Bears will offer no great obstacle to Yale, provided Yale recovers as she should under the ministrations of Sharpe in the coming three weeks
 Next Saturday the Ellis will enter tain Tufts at the Bowl, but this band of Boston contenders will be less warIke than the late Boston col legians. Yale can make a real lovely party out of the Tufts game; and it can repeat the picnic the foIIowing g Saturday when Maryland State is the opposition
 Down in this burg they say, We know you, AL" And well they might know him For Al is the guy that brought up Cornell teams that could whip Pennsy consistently for the first time in two decades; and he D also the guy that brought a Cornell team to the form of whipping Harvard They never have any objection to whaling the Crimson in New Haven. and if Al is determined to knock down the Fishermen this year, they'll let him go to 1t and back him up well.
 Sharpe is a Yale a1umnus, finally back at the old stand after three big