The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. %.
4 s Is customary before a Har-
N ward Yale game, the situation
this weeE has been drenched with
strategic mystery. which is supposed
to have a powerful mental effect on
the game itself Most often Yale
is the chief figure in this tactical
involvement and Friday it came TO
the fore again, with the great Booth
conundrum.
Fast week, when the Bulldog beat Prince;
ton, Able Booth. the Human lei, ana
Indian rubber man, sat on the sidellneS:
Seemingly he sat because he was too hurt
had been so badly pressed as TO need his
services.
Friday 1t was bruited about that
Booth would not get into the game
today. New Haven gossips endowed
him with this formidable collection
of handicaps: ID A torn or strained
ligament; % a bruised tendon of
achilles: 49, battered satorius
muscle: "a fallen arches.
A S any Of these troubles would
IA be enough to disqualify a hu-
man from so socially important
matter as the Harvard Yale game, 1t
will be appreciated that young
Booth was in quite a dilemma. That
is, If the New Haven gossips were
correct. Sometimes they err on the
side of ver-emphasis, as the Car
negie Foundation puts it and pic
ture ills as easily as the impression
able reader OF symptoms outlined in
a medical advertisement.
90 all the wav back to the DAYS Of Hef
felfinEer, Cumnock. Hi-kev and Haughton.
absolute invaIids on Friday ran eighty-five
yards or something to a touchdown on
Saturday.
You will find that under the
great impetus of football fame and
the old college spirit, young men
with Fridays broken legs and skull
fractures turn out Saturdays win
ming goal kickers and strategic
giants.
THERE'S something about this
i game of football which
achieves cures that make the we'll
known Mayo brothers look like In
dian medicine men. So, if Albie
Booth raced into an emergency to-
day and scurried through eleven
Crimson jerseys for one gain after
another, chalk up another triumph
for the curative powers of footbol
and another success for the deep /
strategy of the injured star.
TINE insinuation, born in New
Il Haven. that the famous Yale
fence. stolen from a Photographic
studio near the Eli campus last
Saturday. had been spirited ave.
to Cambridge brought violent dis
chalmers from Harvard men. Here's
a typical letter, signed by Ebenezer
Raccoon-Coats, '28:
whatever else ttev may saw about Har-
ward ct Yale. we haven't STONED to such
it as a blot inside vale Let them LOOK
exclusive gatherirg Mace of old ELS dill
lctante. for that fence.
ANYWAY who IN hell wants that pec"
wear. but thst didn't ston Harvard fror,
right Seventeent to nothing.l
many wears Ego aid re ONO told me- the
he carried the ball in living wedge ri
springfeld end came ont ont Of ,t TIE Yele maSS
# Of his bsck.
II Harvard had syiped the fence. st
has lot more TO lard before accounts 90
Cub Cub It's a tip W
In the meantime Yale faces thu
necessity of going into the Harvard
game with the fence still at large.
T HAVE no quarrel with football
Il coaches who want privacy and
secret practice sessions. They have
a tough enough time. Teaching
the boys with nobody around. Which
reminds me of the experience Bob
Zuppke had in the game with
Northwestern some time ago. Bob
thought his Illinois team would beat
Dick Hanley's boys. Bob instituted
a series of secret sessions. and at
the grand finale said, Now, you
boys, I want you to win in a walk
from Northwestern"
y
This being secret practice. the nlini
took Bob at his word. They tried to win
In . walk from Northwestern. and gained
four yards by rushing. falling to make
hrst down for the first time since Zuppke
took hold. So you can see that some
times secret practice has a sort of Aus
tralian boomerang attached to it,
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