Show BIG COACHES ARE ARf UP AGAINST IT Past Football Season Does Not Add Much Credit to Their Reputations S Now New cw Tork York Dec Dc 12 Carefully consid considering ering cring tho UlO results of the tile last football 1 o season they the do not appear as a whole to have added very largely larie to t the tho lustre I which may be supposed to surround football coaches in the east Cst In hl n the thc first place palace they thc have pot lot made an hate diate progress with new football They have not proved that hat they th 3 ace aze ie resource resourceful r ful rul Ut enough to devise devi o newer and an better i than their th ir predecessor pr ard ardIn In some instances they have bave 1 0 ot n nas ne as aswell well with wilh the material il iLey ey have ha had at hand hand as the d tl l lin in 1907 S While they th may realize that tierp r are arc ire possibilities i in the game ame which are be bc beyond beyond yond ro its present development they eJe have been backward in attempting to make the most moat mo t of or them In many M they the have not varied their teaching ng from front that of the orthodox football of or four rears ears ago ugo o and there has been a stupidity connected with their field fi ld re results results suits if the other team were not equally qually stupid in iii 11 its It conception of or the sport woud would have resulted In over overwhelming whelming defeat in more quarters than one Coaches All Afraid In and in 1107 football made strides which counted for or something There Then was never ner greater enthusiasm displayed than that of spectators when they began be an to see what the game was about This year ear it would appear that almost every coach in the east had fallen back tp that deplorable rable state of mind which Walter alter Camp described as mental paralysis 15 for fear that the team would lose the ball ballo The coaches this year if they have attempted td UI teach their elevens any an annew new P seem also to have Impaired Im aired ired them with a certain element of fear to so that if they try to tr a forward pass aSS and it does not happen to work or an onside kick and It falls of or its purpose the quarterback Immediately ceases his open strategy and is content cont nt to togo go back backon on the old game trying to mak make ten yards ards through the line Une and in the event cent of Its failure to punt S SIf If it Is evident that thit the defense of an another another another other eleven is good to it certain that a Q punt wilt will have to be used on tho the third down don to get Set the ball from immediate danger why wh Is It not as as sensible to loic it Xo o 0 make something bj b tho the use of a forward pass or an onside kick as It is to dabble with weak wook plunges at the line lin following it up with a punt at such a d time that the defense dense knows the punt fj nt will surely surel be made and If It possesses posse es strength to block kicks is better belter pre pro prepared pared to do so by b reason rea on of or te notice which has so publicly been communicated comm nl rated Attack Is Weak In their effort to build a strong defensive def n ns sire sive s e game the tho coaches aches c seem peem to have hae for forgotten forgotten forgotten gotten that a contest might be won by bya a very YOl strong attack Where has there been an attack this year ear that was the equal of the attack of or some of or the elev clew elevens elevEns ens in 1907 Yale smashed its way through the forwards forward of Princeton on a muddy field It Is the style of game ame that a certain element of Yale Yai football players like Yet every ec man who grad graduates graduates graduates from Yale and goes elsewhere to coach must not deduce from that the theory that all elevens el can play In football similar to Yale As as Yale may ma have been when the weather conditions were to the success of or the te t e team the Ells were weaklings against a ln t Harvard Haryard when they the did not oot have hae enough diversity of ot attack to carry cam them through to success in view of the plain showing that Har Harvard Harward ward vard would have hae been fooled if Yale had possessed anything which should fool Cool them Penn Did Well WellIn In the game between Princeton and Yale the Tigers in the first half turned loose such stick a new ne system of f advancing the ball that the Yale men floundered around like a truck cart in a bog and but for the rain It might have been wen that Princeton would have held Its own own in the second half Yale rale offered nothing in variety arlet of attack that bothered Princeton but When the time came aim sim simply ply pI boro bore the orange and black line down don donby by weight eight of numbers and sheer strength and thereby won At Pennsylvania alone there seems seems to have been an effort to combine straight football with new football to the credit of the Pennsylvania coaches and to t the credit of the players pla ers of the Pennsylvania eleven it may ma be said that they th wore nearer to the th ideal of a first cla class s team playing football under the new Hew American rules than any an which took part in any an games In the east this season Possibly Pennsylvania could not have won from Harvard because Harvard Hanard Is strong and big and versed ver cd some in repelling open attack As a whole too much attention has been given to the defensive game ame in football It Jt make too cowardly a con coo contest contest test of the sport |