New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-04
Football Again
Getting Ready
For Li1neligght
Players in Majority of East
ern Colleges Begin Cam
paign of Conditioning
By Ray Mccarthy


realize it the various college elevens
will be at one another's throats. This
season is one which sweeps in without
warning-and which departs all too
quickly and too abruptly
The start will be made this week,
that is for the players. The spectators
will sit on the bench for another
couple Of weeks at least. Their work
of roofing home their favorites will
not begin until the latter part of the
month. Meantime they can be having
their vocal cords inspected and ad-
going to find good use for them this
And while the fans are thus engaged
the players will be preparing for the
engagements which they are to fill in the
next eight or nine succeeding weeks.
This part OF football training-the pre-
liminary drills the bane Of the col
lege football players career. For there
is little Joy and unlimited, tedious.
arduous labor involved in conditioning
for the gridiran campaign.
Hard Work Essential
Anybody who has ever seen q squad
OF college football players go through
q preliminary siege of training for
their seasons schedule can have no
doubt as to the value of the game.
This campaign of conditioning is one
of the greatest means of discipllnIng a
young collegian and of teaching hin,
the great truth that success is gained
only by hard work.
That is what the members of the
various squads which will report this
week are in for-plain, unadulterated
hard work. The players will assemble
on Tuesday next-that is, the candi
dates for the varsity elevens at most
of the institutions willard their
work will start the minute they report.
Setting up exercises, gymnastics,
running, sprinting and the handling
of the football will make up their
schedule for the first couple Of days.
Sore muscles will win no sympathy
from the coaches. Candidates will be in
formed that more and harder work will
remove the sore spots and harden the
muscles. After a couple of days Of
this kind of drill the men will begin
time passes and the players round into
condition the real work of assembling
the machine will be started.
Some teams, like Princeton, Pitts
burgh and the Army, will have less of
this gruelling drill in fundamentals,
for these three are fortunate in hav-
ing the majority Of last years team
eligible for this seasons eleven. Pitts
burgh lost but two regular players last
year, McCracken, an end, and Gourley
halfback. The Panthers' chances for
championship team are bright indeed
and with nine veterans returning Glenn
Warmers work will not be quite SO
exhausting as it would were only three
or four regulars making the return
trip to college.
Roper Not Complaining
Bill Roper, the Princeton mentor
isn't complaining, either He has g
ajority Of last years team back, IN
Guiding his two great stars, Lourie al
quarterback and Keck at tackle. Il
he had only these two around which
to build q team the Tiger coach could
worry along and feel he would have g
successful season. But with seven OF
eight others, tried and true, who have
proved their worth on a championship
team, Roper can surely feel life, after
all, isn't so bad.
The Army eleven Of last year is back
intact, practically. This may or may
mot mean much, for the cadets did not
have the best eleven parading the
gridiron last fall. But with a years
experience and with several new stars
on hand to help out the Army can be
expected at least to make strong
showing this season.
Meantime, Bezdek at Penn State,
young "Chick" Meehan at Syracuse and
Tad Jones at Yale, along with host
of other coaches, have their work cut
out for them IN replacing most of the
regulars of their 1920 elevens, and they
will have to start driving from the
very start.
However, it must not be thought
these institutions are handicapped in
not having a full array of regulars to
start work with. Frequently it is for
the best to possess only a few veterans
for team work can be developed among
squad of rockies a we'll as of vets, y
provided those rockies have the stuff
and the spirit.
Yale, for instance, is bound to i'm
prove over last years showing. A
new hand has been dealt all around
Tad Jones has given up his bushes
cares and will concentrate on the lob
of coaching his alma mater. The stu
dents are behind him. The few play
ers who did cause dissension last year
have departed Yale will be working
with new spirit this fall
No Worry at Penn State
The folks up at Penn State will not
sit back and worry about the departure
Of several stars. They will work the
harder to build a team equal to last
year's-one which will have TO play
through q schedule as difficult as any
college team in the country will be
called upon to face.
just what the prospects are at the
various colleges will not be known
definitely for a couple of weeks. 1t is
absurd to say that Princeton or Pitts
burg because It has nucleus of eigh1
or ten veterans back will walk over the
others. We have seen those veteran
combinations crumbls before and it is
not wise to count your eggs until they
are collected.
Harvard Boston College, Dartmouth
Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Colgate
Brown, New York University. Ford
ham and all of the others will start
work this week. They all will have
good instructors and undoubtedly each
has likely looking squad ready te
start practice.