Evening star., 1932-10-12
CURTA|LMENT PLAN |
OUT AS GRID AL|B|
DisavoWaI of IntramuraI
Dominancy Held BeIated.
May Never Happen.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, october IL
M There are those in New
Y Haven who feel that Yale's
official disavowal of her re-
ported intention to take steps,
approximately immediate, in the
reduction of foot ball schedules
and StreSSing intramural athletics
at the expense of the present
intercollegiate scheme was seri
ouSly belated.
Feeling exists that practice Of the
present varsity squad began under the
handicap of belief on the part of the
players and coaches that they were un-
der a gathering cloud of dsapproval
and that their time was short. Not
their time personally, but the time OF
things they and past generations Of
Yale athletes have stood for.
So the idea obtains, in some quarters,
that the foot bail men were suptly al
fected and that the malign influence is
to be read in two tie games already
played.
A IL this may be true, but the writer,
"A after watching Yale against Chi
cago ON Saturday, ha& the impress
sion that the trouble with the Ellis
just now relates to no psychological
background but is purely physical.
Yale tried to beat Chicago practically
without the service of ends. In al
most every phase Of defensive play the
Blue wingmen were absolutely nil. Of
fensively they were very bad. So were
ward who displayed any get-up and go.
Shirt
ever downfield on a punt and the for
ward pass defense pattern was a crazy
one.
There must be speed to be found in
squad so enormous. so impressive in
rangineSs and physique and probably
by next Saturday it will begin to ap-
pear. Probably, too, the team will
show signs of learning to block. Block
ing is very essential to the Yale type
of offense. 1t is to any type, so far as
that goes. But the eleven that essays
the Notre Dame attack must, above all
things, be nippy in this detail.
DUT, to return to the subject of in
- tercolegate defation, the intra-
mural scheme emphasized in place
of varsity sport 1t seems clear that
the Yale authorities will set the trans
formation even farther into the further
than they have said. A lot of dis
cerning folk believe it will never hap
pen.
Even a casual study of Yale's ath-
letic administration, even a cursory
glance at the various plants, the wealth
Of equipment involved in the Eli inter-
collegiate scheme suggest the vast and
devious complications which would
confront those who sought to bring
about the change.
In his Office in the Ray Topkins
House sits Harold F. Woodcock. Per-
gests the leaoer Of great corporation.
ize that in 1891 the business which Mr..
Woodcock handles earned greater net
than all but one of the big steel cor
porations of the country?
IT is we'll for Yale that it has been able
i to secure a man to handle its vast
and multifarious intercollegiate ath-
letic affairs with the sure touch, the
vision the decisiveness, the breadth OF
view of one whom any great corpora
ton would be glad to have as an ex-
ecutive.
Harold Woodcock and the work he
does are symbols of the economic sig
nificance as we'll as the sentimental
Importance of Yale's intercollegiate
scheme And the average observer
could as easily imagine the oisintegra-
ton of the Bank of England as the
overthrowing of this mammoth struc-
ture that Yale has erected.
Mcdificat.cnS could be effected with