New Britain herald., 1919-11-25
YALE is ASKED TO
 FORGET FOOTBALL
''Daily News" Is Peeyed at Criti.
 CiSn From Outside MeddlerS

So forget the football season as soon aHas possible. At least this was the way Nhe Yale Daily News attempts to close he subject in an editorial yesterday Hanorning. The News says the season M Maas been "unlucky' and that Yalcs Sstyle of play did not lose tho game for he Blue. The editorial in the News k8s as follows:
 N Harvard won on Saturday because SShe was quick to take advantage of SR1er opponents misplays--the fumbles. @aEhe controversies that have arisen aapver the relative status of modern SRnd old fashioned or straight foot ball alike amuse and disgust. If liar yard followed the modern game more tlosely than did Yale then the sum #nary does not show it. (Note herein Sparticularly the number of forward passes attempted the number success 8kul0. The subject of technique, how abVer, is one that can best be threshed Ssout later--by those best qualified to sdo 1t. From December to August lAhroughout the long off season-there 8s time for this; for the present for 2yet it. If there is anything wrong 3Nith the Yale system it is going to Abe fixed here at Yale and not (praise H81eaven) by outside priers and med N&a1ers. #... 2N "As to Harvards great victory, 1t has long been recognized that games Are won and lost-not by number of Eards gained rushing not by num- 4ber of first downs,' not by average distance of punts.' Tn football so long bs the game is played cleanly by both hides, points scored is the only item khat really matters, and there is sad x 1kolace in anything other than points. tf is then far beyond our poor power LOT any one else's-to detract one Id kota from the success that is justly H&Iarvard's; the victory is hers and Male envies her for it and admires hnd respects the Crimson eleven tre- mendously.
 Yale should Have Won."
 Nevertheless Harvard undergrad klates have congratulated Yale on her cam too. Nay, some of them have xone further and proclaimed that You Ellis deserved to win We think sxactly so ourselves, and out of re- spect to Dr. Sharpe and the sixteen men that represented Yale on Soldiers field Saturday it is necessary for us E. Ito say so
 The Yale team of 1919 will be mentioned in the football books as aefeated team. It will also be remem- bered as powerful team and a fight Ing team, and must therefore be classed as an unlucky' team. In the Princeton and Harvard games of 1919 there is nothing about which any Yale man--past, present or future-need aver feel ashamed. Again, let us quit khe arena marching; there will be E. other years.
 Tim Callahan, the Yale captain, in an interview last evening, said that his team lost the Harvard game be- rause of fumbles and lack of conf Hence that followed.
 1. 1T don't want to be quoted as saying there was anything wrong with the roaching system as put into effect by Dr. Sharpe" he said. Tt does no look we'll for the team to rap coaches lhat is the first thing everybody doe: after a Yale defeat.
 FumbIes Lost Game.
 "rrhe reason we lost the game wal Ia rgely on account Of our fumples anc he lack of confidence they caused When we carried the ball to Harvard nne yard line we did not try pla. through center, as has been common ly saan, but between guard and tackle 1t is ridiculous also to say that 4al lost because she stuck to old styl football Harvard dlu the same thlns Princeton is the only big team tha used open play extensively. Ihelr typ pf play could have been defeated D, hny really fine team, either Yale 0 Harvard.
 "A team has got to be drilled t use both styles or football. In cas massed formations don't work ope1 # play can be resorted to. Prlnceto stuck to the open variety. There Wer lot of rumors around DeIofe an after the game One was that liar yard had found out all the Yale slg nals before the game. This is ridlcu lous as most of the others were. liar yard knew nothing about our signals!
 The graduates and most of the un aergraouates will not take the Yal News editorial seriously. They do no want to forget this seasons footba
 record; they want to know why Yal aid not produce a victorious team
 Those who knew football put sauarely up to the coaching. The all agree that Yale had material ia
 superior to that of Harvard an
 Princeton and that the blame doc
 not rest upon the players.
 While there is no desire to attaC
 pr. Sharpe, there is an insistent dc
 mand that he revise his coaching sys
 tenn and style of play. The graduate
 want to give him q fair chance, bl they insist on better football and the
 refuse to accept excuses.
 Dr. Brides Is Praised.
 The work of Dr. Brides with tn
 rush line has received no end
 praise. Tho old timers take off the
 hats to the work of the rush lin
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