Evening star., 1926-11-05

a track star. OOcrIanQer is La
thrower Of the forward pass who e,
scrimmage line.
Both Princeton and Dartmouth are
rural institutions. They are secluded
IN small towns. With city attractions
remote the students of both univer.
stiles must depend upon student ac-
tivities and student associations for
their diversions.
This results in a spirit that is very
f1ne. Yost came Last two years ago
looking for a man who could inject
this stuff into the athletes of a uni
Versity numbering many thousands
and he selected Emery, one of the
highest types of college athlete. men
tally, physically and morally, who
over has come out of college.
Wilce Picked Oberlander.
Similarly intent, DR.. John w. Wilce,
when he was in the East last Win
Ter. studied the list of men Of Prince
ton or Dartmouth who might be avail
able and in the end selected Oberlan-
der.
Both men are greatly beloved by
the athletes of Michigan and Ohio
state and both are contributing in
signal dt gree the very things which
Yost and Wilce expected of them.
This mental side of foot ball is a.
wonderful thing and not every coach
realizes just how influential it is. II
applies not only to gearing team
for a game, but is important in the
general run Of the season-in the
relations of players with one another
and the good understa nding as be-
tween coaches and players. Frank
Cavanaugh speaks of it as the hid
den nexus, something very elusive,
but wonderfully effective in establish
Ing morale.
Way out In Seattle Tubby Graves,
the old Missouri star. is one OF the
best solvents of conditions that might
work against the best interest OF a
team. Enoch Bagshaw, great coach,
is very intense man and sometimes
sn the heat of coaching the HuSk1es
he may be little sharp.
But in the dressing room. minutes
after Tubby Graves has circulated
among the players with his dr.
humor and his warmth Of personality.
the atmosphere changes and good fel'
lowship and merriment reigns.
Asked recently if there was much
kidding in the Notre Dame dressing
room, Knute Rockne told the writer
that any time he goes into the team
quarters and finds no joshins going
un he is Immediately worried.
There is something wrong in Dem
mark" said Knute, when you don't
find your players handing 1t back
and forth when they are together.
Eddie AIahan says. however. that
there was not much of this In the
dressing room IN the regime OF Percy
Haughton. The men as rule. he
said were too tired for Joking after
u Haughton practice.
Yet that great coach took care that
FUN was not altogether missing from
the training quarters at Cambridge.
Every once In a while ne would put
ON sort of circus right out on the
field.
One season Brown had a team that
had beaten Yale and was due IN
cambridge loaded with big arma-
,nent. a lot of Browns success was
reported by the scouts TO be due to
the spirited backing of the Brunonian
rooters.
ON the Thursday practice before
the game Haughton and his coaches
appeared with megap phones and the
managers and candidates for man
agerial Jobs were armed with rattles
and other noise producing instru-
ments. So were other attendants.
From the minute practice started
the noise makers, standing as close
Ga they could to the varsity and
scrubs. turned loose all the uproar
Of which they were capable, and
the final scene, with the varsity on
'he scrubs 5-yard line, disclosed
1Iaughton halfway up the goal
posts, clinging by one hand and With
she other holding the megaphone to
his lips through which he was roar
ang "Brunonia, Brunonia. Brunonia:
on the following Saturday the
uproar of the Brown cheering sec
tions fell like balm upon the ears
of the Harvard varsity.
In view of the Princeton-Yale ar.
Sangement about no scouting. here
u a most interesting situation. Next
Saturday Harvard plays Princeton
and Yale and Harvard have no agree
inent as to scouting. Yale scouts
have been watching the Crimson all
season, and vice versa.
Now, the Saturday after the F1ar-
ward Princeton game the Tigers and
the Ellis hook up. Since Princeton Is
hound to shoot all she has at Har-
Yard, 1t follows that the Yale scouts
will know all there Is TO know about
Princeton plays after the game is
over.
They will return to New Haven to
coach Yale players how to meet Har-
ward plays, but concerning Princeton
their lips In honor must remain
sealed and what they know they
must keep 70 themselves. Was ever
a greater temptation placed upon
coaches. But so great Is Princeton's
respect for Tad Jones that there Is
no worry at all in old Nassau.
(Copyrght 1920