San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-22
BANNER SEASON
IS ASSURED ON
THE GR|D|R0Ns
California Has $50 Candi.
dates; Centre Quarter
Of School.
ALL WATCH HAUGHTON
Game Lures Inventor of
Harvard System to
Columbia.
BIZ ROBERT EDGREN.

DA hOOIhl CnOnLN.
Evidently this will be banner foot
ball season. From all sections of the
country come reports of record squads
of young huskies answering the call
for practice. Over $50 candidates re-
ported TO Coach Andy Smith out in
California.
The quiet of the Kentucky hills
was punctured the other day when
one-fourth of Centre Colleges entire
student enrolment troopcd out for the
first football drill. The East no lon
ger monopolizes the attention of en-
bryo gridiron stars.
The game this year will be little
changed. Spectators will not require
special coaching, because the officials
wisely decided to let we'll enough alone
and refused to do much tampering
with the rules. 1t is welcome change
from'a few years ago when wholesale
experiments were made with forward
passing and other rules and specta-
tors hardly knew what TO expect.
One lamentablc loss this-season will
be the curtailing of intersectional
games. The Big Three-Yale. Har-
ward. Princeton-passpd rule for
| bidding long trips and intersectiOnal
contests. This move tended to discour-
age other colleges from scheduling
games with opponents in other sec
tions.
ThiHis il Is Foolish.
II seems that some DEMONSTRATING
e. ,I.-1..oo1 lx,N
students wasted few minutes of
their time each week through, undue
enthusiasm over their teams big foot
ball games. Along these lines of re-
search il was found that even the play
crs themselves MIGHT be absent an on
tire day from Rotations because of n
trim 10 Chicago or some other foot
ball town.
The learned professors raised such
raucous howl that athletic nuthori-
ties became alnrmed Hnd decided to
restrict football activities this sea-
son: which to many is all foolishness.
There is nothing more thrilling than
games between representative elevens
of the various sections. These contests
tend TO promote better understanding
and feeling. Last year ] watched
Princeton defeat the University of
Chicago in one of tho most remarkable
games ever played. Both t"ams rave ,
magnificent exhibition of skill and
| grit.
Chicago's defeat was tempered by
the thought that Princeton might soon
again come West for another game.
But friendships that grew from this
game were surprised to learn that
faculty barriers would soon go up
against future interscctiOnal games.
New Coaches on Job.
| It is TO be hoped that the mistake
of not encouraging intcrseciional con-
| tests will be thoroughly realized this
season and that conditions will be diff
fcront in 1924.
While the absence Of intersectional
battles will tend to restrict public in
terst. this no doubt will be made un
by following the exploits of MANY
coaches on new jobs. After the ~
cHmpaign there was general shiftin"
of head coaches. This hapuened in all
parts of the land.
The biggest single move was the re
turn of Percy Haughton TO active
fascinating about coaching football
teams. Since the World War Haugh.
ton did no active coaching. but cacl
wear he couldn't resist the tempt alton
to go out to Soldiers Field and see
how the Harvard squad was coming
along for the big games with Prince
ton and Yale.
A Sample Of Discipline.
,-n
ccntive mood when Columbia made its
offer last winter. Determined TO rc
cover lost gridiron PRESTIGE. Colrmbif
cast about for the coach best onuippe,
- handle tine jon and SINGLED gu
Rocknc of Notrc Dame and Hau"hton
I;ocSpe could not answer the call h"
cause of his Notre Dame contract. |
was different with Haughton. He hn'
no coaching connections of tn" tim
'nd readily agreed TO come TO Co'um
big.
Frughton's success at Harvar'
could he explained in one wo~d-or
0anization. The founder Of tho famo'r
, Harvard svstnm IS an cvncrt on th
mastery of deiqil. Nothing cscann
him eithc" in the preparation or tn
pl"virg Of n gone.
Under the Haughty system oacl
plaver has certain Duties 10 perform
md he knows 70 an inch just whcr
10 should he during each plar. An
I tho Young husky who thoughtlessl
I commits errors is in for rou"
e time. With FauFhton discinline is rel
: gion. He &c the hos7 Mt aU times.
I Tn ut Harvard they tell story q
Y uaughtor and one OF the groates
{ kickers the Crimson ever developed
4 rhc coach speciallr INSTRUCTED this stn
= not to nunt over thirty-eight yards /
2 a certain game.
j Tho dqy of tho game rol)"a aroma
c The flicker. getting his first r"H
|. ch"nce. was anxious To exhibit NJ
t skill before the racked stands. III
: Quarterback barkod out orders for
kick. II was big moment for III
Young star. He gave the ball tr'
mendous boot. sending IL nearly sixt
Il wards. Tho catcher made brittle '
' -u~bacN. Harvnrd soon recovered "
T. haH and had - kick. Once r~air ~
i ban won't SAILING far down th" tiel'
Suddenly a substitute darted OF