The sun., 1919-10-15
CHOICE OF QUARTER
PUZZLES YALE MEN
Situation of Having Many
Field Generals Is Not New
One at New Haven.
LA ROCHE MUST FIGHT
Shiverick and Sturbing Saved
Teams Saturday With Field
Goals in Pinch,

Yale this fall is confronted by a
proposition that is old in Ell football
that of being unable to decide upon a
varsity quarterback. This season finds
Chef La Roche, Kempten, Chick Neville
and others taking a fling at the post,
and DR.. Sharpe is in quandary as to
whom he will choose for the position
in the big games. In fact DR.. Sharpe
Is confused about his entire backfeld,
but he is even more undecided about
the position of Qqarterback.
It may be that one of the candidates
will play through all the practice games
only to be replaced by another In the
tits with Princeton and Harvard. as
has been the case many times before.
Eastern fans well remember Chef La
Roche's sudden injection into the Blue
lineup for the big games in 1916-Yales
last varsity team before this season.
La Roche acquitted himself with dis
tinction in those trays despite his new
hess to the job in title combat, and his
work was expected to give him an edge
for the position this fall. other can
didates have forced the. Boston boy to
the limit, however. and he will have to
fight hard for his place If he gets it
at ALL
Tries Many Backs.
After trying out more than a score
II backs during the week preceding the
North Carolina game pr. Sharpe gave
nearly all of them chance against
The Tar Heels and uncovered quite n
formidable scoring combination. He has
blade no announcement, however. as to
AaAn haO NJ L.
field. nor has he named the players who
will start against Boston College Sat-
urday.
Boston College is certain to give the
Blue a hard rub. but the team is primed
Cor II and ought to emerge with credit.
Yale will strive to better Harvard's
II to score against the Hub collegians.
Late in the last period of the Caro-
Gina game eleven Yale substitutes gave
the spectators further proof that foot
ball players are no walking encyclopedia
Of rules of the game when they allowed
Carolina, unmolested, to recover an on
side kick behind the goal line for a
touchdown. 1t might be we'll for DR..
Sharpe to let the Blue players come in
for a little skull practice, since 1t was
Just this same sort of break on the
part of Princeton men that sent Yale
on its winning way in 1915.
Against Harvard or Princeton q dis
play like that of last Saturday might
easily, and most likely would, be fraught
with disaster for the New Haven
eleven.
Field Goals Feature.
That accurate kicking is no small fac
tor in the success of a football team
was proved again last Saturday in many
jnstances-the mfst notable of which
~ IL 1fC ,aI1
against williams and of Strubing of
Princeton against Lafayette. These two
kicks saved at least something for Cor
nellie and Princeton out OF a day that
otherwise would have contained nothing
but disaster.
OF the two goals Shverick's was the
more difficult, since the Big Red team
pnet williams on a water soaked field
and the ball was covered with rain and
tn-d. Shiverick's goal may be likened
& that of Charlie Brickley against
Princeton, November 8, 1913, which. to
this day, Briclley contends is the most
difficult one he ever kicked, although the
distance was only twenty yards.
The game was played at Princeton on
field covered with mud, and both
teams slid helplessly when they tried to
run with the ball. The Tiger defence
etiffened the few times Harvard was
able to penetrate deeply into Princeton
territory, and Brickiey. the mainstay of
she Crimson. was called upon to pull his
team out of the hole. He took a mud
lowered ball on the Tiger 20 yard line
Cor try at the goal. He drove his mud
plotted shoe into the leather. and the
heavy ball sailed weakly into the air
straight and true, however, to the
Princeton goal and Harvard had added
another to Its long list of gridiron
triumphs.