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Show H1NKEY SEEMS TD BE FAILK COACH Yale Teams Under His Direction Di-rection Have Made Miserable Mis-erable Showings. By FHANK 'G- MENEE. NEW YOBK, :ov. 6. Frank Hinkey, as a football coach at Yale, seems to be a failure. Xo Blue elevens ever have been humbled as havo those two that Hinkey has tutored. Yale never has been plunged into such impenetrable gloom as surrounds the sons of Eli now. Hinkev took unto himself the coaching coach-ing joh ' in 'ew Haven at the begin-ning begin-ning of the IP 14 season, and great things were expected. He was looked upon as the Moses who was to lead Yale out of the vale of defeat and humiliation into the promised land of championship- Bllt Hinkey has fliv-vnred. fliv-vnred. v- Friends of the Yale coach have tried to alibi his failure with the explanation explana-tion that. lack of material handicapped him. But that, excuse lacks weight, and lacks it sadly. f'robablv no college coach in the country has hail more or better material mate-rial to draw- from than has Hinkey. The cream of the prep school football talent, enters Yale and the sophomore classes of 19)4 and 1015 have given to Hinkev some of the liest raw material that ever hoofed a gridiron. Tt needed nnlv a bit of developing by lljnkey to bring it to championship perfection, and Hinkey failed. Theory vs. Practice. The trouble with Hinkey soonis to be that he tries to fit his men to a system sys-tem instead of making the system fit, the men. He tries to force them to do things that thev cannot do naturally. He fries to get them to play along theoretical the-oretical lines, instead of along the prae- t','al- , , The 'Mack of good material excuse in Hinkev 's behalf is shot, to pieces when one recalls what Virginia and Washington and Jefferson did lo 1 ale. Hinkev- has had about 2:)Hfl eligible students stu-dents to draw from each year to ninke up his varsitv squad, while the Virginia coaches had' to make up their team from about 80ft eligible, and those at Washington and .lefferson could call on onlv about SOU eligible?. Vet Hob Polwell, coach of Washington Washing-ton and Jefferson, drawing upon only JOO men of football caliber, was able to weld together a team in 101 t- that beat the pick of Yale's iVtbil bv the score of K) to 7, while the lill.T Washington Wash-ington and .lefferson team beat Yale Id to 7. The Virginia coaches, drawing draw-ing on Ihcir fiiin oliuihles, were able to assemble a machine that walloped Yale, lu to n. Cat vear when Wa.diin gl on and Jefferson Jef-ferson Peat ale. the o.cuse rwas offered of-fered that Hinkev had a ''green'-team, ''green'-team, while l-'olwell hail a veteran aggregation. ag-gregation. But the case was a different one this year. Yale lost but few of its stars by grn4iuition : Washing! on and Jefferson's great 1911 team was shot to smithereens. lis backfield was lost, its line weakened and it lost Cruik-shank, Cruik-shank, one of the greatest centers thai ever handled a football. It was up to l-'ulwell, with only a handful of material at his command, to weld together an almost ne.w team. Be did it. Bulk yvas lacking in hiR 05 niaterial, so he developod its speed, and he taught his men new tricks to offset the weight handicap of Washington and Jefferson 's foes. Tho Washingion and Jefferson team that we saw face Yale October 211 seemed ten pounds lighter to a man, yet it outclassed Yale to such an extent that Yale looked like a grammar gram-mar school eleven in comparison, Failure Is Patent. Can there be any better argument to back up a statement that Hinkey Is a failure at Yale than to point out what Folwell, wUJi a light green '' ee en 'lid against, Hinkey 's bunch of huskies? fan thero be any better case of fliv-vering fliv-vering than to show that a college with an enrollment of about br0 twico beat a college with an eligible enrollment of 2:-ifio? fir can there bo any belter example of fai'nire than to point, to the fact that Harvard last vear gave the Hinkey-coaebed Hinkey-coaebed Y'ale foam the worst heating Yali-i has suffered in all its football history? i t, doesn't, seem that lack of material if, the excuse. Tt seems lack of tutoring, tutor-ing, Hinkev has the material; he has 'had men with speed, with brains and 'with bulk. But he doesn't seem able to mold them into a. machine, that can smash its way to real victorv. .The Yrale team of 1P.1-! suffered tw-o beiiHngs. The Hinkey supporters excused ex-cused Hinkey ami said: 'Wrait until next year." And so the populaco, wait; ed. And what happened? l-Vaiili Hinkey, if seems to us, was a. much better fooiliall player than he is a football coach. |