New Britain herald., 1928-10-03
STEVENS NOW IS
SHOWING ROCKIES
Exceeds Best Of Candidates in
AL Departments Of Game


OF this fall. ut least, one tall, slim,
blonde youth. moving hatless
through the grounds OF the Yale
Medical school will have something
on his mind besides the origin and
insertion Of the chest muscles and
the why's aud wherefore's of house,
maids knee.
1t wouldn't be surprising if this
senior In the medical school Of Old
Eli forgot entirely at times that
there are such things at pathology
and physiology: He Is NAL Stevens,
head coach Of Yale's football forces
and has only that excuse to offer
for missing signal at this time of
year III ono OF his clinics.
That excuse probably would be all
that II necessary. Twenty-eight
years old, this drawing, slow-smil-
ing son of Yale's own football school
has takee over the coaching reins
Passed down by Tad Jones. moulder
OF mighty elevens. Only six years
ago this fall. Stevens carried a pig
skin In under the arm that now Tugs
weighty books. and did it extremely
we'll.
Today he strides among the cam
didatcs for another Yale team, a
long legged, loose kipped figure
with \ baseball cap perched jauntily
on mis- sandy hair. He can catch
passes better than his ends. show
the best of his backs something
, about running the ball. and kick
yards farther than the ace OF his
booting staff.
Yale no longer can use Mails
prowess along those lines. His job
is to pick up the regulars left from
a team that won equal recognition
| with Pittsburgh as the eastern
champions last fall and build around
them from the veteran material At
hand another Bulldog eleven worthy
of Yale.
He has lost Stew Scott and Dwight
Fishwick. great ends, Bill Webster
and Sid Quarter from d stonewall
line, Bruce Caldwell, Bill Hammer
sley. and Cox, famous halfbacks. He
still has Johnny Hoben and "Hoot"
ELLIS. quarterbacks, Garvey. Lampe
Decker and Miller halfbacks: Hub
bard and Dunn. at fullback.
4 wealth of reserves are back TO
rebuild the line. Odt. McEwen,
Goldman and Grille will take charge
OF the ends; Martirg. Capt. Eddy.
l-add and Vincent are big. rangy
tackles: and Charlesworth is one Of
the finest centers in the east.
Two veteran guards, Hall and
"Firpo" Greene, the only man in
Yale history who ever sprained both
ankles from walking on his hands.
have reported with injuries that
soon will heal. Hall cut his foot
with an axe while chopping wood
this fall and the quaint Greene
broke a finger when u calf kicked
him while he was punching cows on
midwest ranch. Last fall some
one told Greene he could strengthen
his~~rists by walking on his hands
He toppled over. spraincd both
ankles. and did not recover until
near mid-season.
NleNeIH, assured OF Splenulu mate
rial and lost Of 1t, will stick TO the
football system he learned under
Tad Jones. There will be much
smashing of opposing ends and
tackles. wide sweeps around the
wings, and the deadly criss cross
passing game Yale opponents have
learned to fear. Lateral passing will
be tested thoroughly.
Nal unused a bit as he gazed over
the hundred huskies toiling irr Yale
blue and talked Of their possibilities.
Perhaps one OF them had gummed
up a play badly. Perhaps an echo
still fingered in his mind of lee
ture on medical Psychology. At any
rate. the tall kansan said:
1.-The big trouble find with
coaching is the human equation
You can give the boys everything in
the world to work with, plays and
teaching. and still you never know
what they will do. You can teach
them but they must go out on the
field alone. You can't play for
them too"