The New York herald., 1922-12-03
TWO OPPONENTS TO
Be DROPPED BY ELI
Curtailment Of Season May
Lose Games for Carnegie
and Bates.
VARSITY CREWS AT WORK
Ed Leader, New Coach, in Full
Charge of Revising Row.
ing Stroke.


Special Dispatch to TIE NEw YORK HERALD.
New HAVEN, Conn.,, Dec. 2.--Follow-
ing the spirit and letter of the regula-
tions recently adopted by Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton urging a curtail-
ment of the football playing season.
thereby making the schedule shorter.
Yale will play but eight football games
next fall. This season Yale had one OF
the longest schedules in her history.
playing ten games and opening the
season before college was called in.
That the schedule yas long
everybody agrees, and that never
again will Yale play an opening game
before the first chapel exercises. also
everybody agrees. Bates was taken on
as early as September %, which date
necessitated a gathering of football
candidates the day after Labor Day,
not at all in accord with the desire Of
the university to make less Of football
and more of the curriculum.
The shortening of the schedule to
eight games means the dropping OF two
of Yale's opponents, but just which ones
is not definitely known at this time.
The invitation to Iowa for another
game in the Bowl will probably be
accepted and as West Point will doubt
less, come again these two early sea-
son games can be counted on. Brown
VIII have a date two weeks before
the Princeton game and it Is expected
that Maryland will fill in again be-
tween the Brown and Princeton games.
Harvard will be played on November
"A.
williams n Favorite.
Bates. Carnegie Tech, Williams. and
North Carolina were the little fell
lows" on Yales schedule this year and
of these four il is quite likely that
Carnegie Tech and Bates may be
dropped. Williams is a great favorite
here and North Carolina has been on
Yale's schedule for several years.
However. until tho schedule makers
have finished their Job, there will be
more or less speculation over the
teams to appear in the Bowl next au-
tumn. The schedule will not be an
nounced until after the Christmas
holidays and in the meantime Yale will
elect a captain discuss the coaching
situation and otherwise be busy over
the problem of how to beat Princeton
and Harvard
The board of control Is scheduled
to meet within n few days, when foot
ball probably will be discussed, but II
Is not likely that any resignation will
be received. It Is learned on the best
OF authority. Tad Jones's contract
has two more years to run and as
L. av,to Il 20 Na ha W
will.
While football has enioved the spot
light for the last two months the uni
versity crew squad has been and Is still
as busy as any set OF Yale athletes has
been In many moon. Ed Leader.
Yale's new coach and former coach of
the University of Washington crews,
IS building from the bottom UP. Install
ing an entirely new system N the con-
duct OF Vale rowing. In the bestowal
OF fun powers upon Leader at the OMEN
ing OF the rowing season lies a double
significance, as the Yale Daily Netcs
points out.
Whereas. In the last few years there
has been a distinct division of authority,
this year the new coaching regime i'm
bued with Leaders methods, is supreme.
In the second place the assistant coaches
have replaced the bitter feuds of yes
teryear by unified &C herence to a domi-
nant method, and this method IS taught
from the freshman crews up through
the class crews to the university crew.
Herein lies the strength OF the sys-
tenn. for all crew material from the
first day will be carefully drilled In the
same stroke and the shift up the scale
may be made with no difficulty. Thus
n great waste of time and energy viii
be eliminated and a hitherto but
SKINNED wealth Of material will be
available for first crews The fall re-
gattn held two weeks ago gave pretty
fair evidence Of the extent and value
of that wealth
The university crews have been at
Derby or on the harbor all fall develop
ing slowly and steadily their ability to
use the new stroke. The progress has
necessarily been slow. for to unlearn an
old stroke and theory of rowing and TO
learn TO use instinctively new stroke
and theory Is a tortuous process.
New Leg Drive for Grew.
Iale's new stroke makes possible a
new leg drive and more continuously
applied power, but also necessitates a
longer slide and carries with Il nat
rrally an entirely different theory OF
Craftsmanship. Time and patience are
reeded for grounding experienced men
In the new stroke and In new funda-
,nentals As 10 the value OF Leaders
theory the only criterion Is the success
he met with In the state OF Washing
ton.
Whether his method win be equally
successful at Yale remains 20 be seen.
Yale believes that this will be seen
clearly and surely In time. perhops not
this season but next, and Is willing to
give the newcomer plenty OF time TO
outgrow the effects OF the Nickalls and
Corderry strokes.