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Show THE FOOTBALL OUTLOOK OPINIONS OF AN EXPERT By FRANK O. MENKTJ. NEW YORK. Spt. 10. Yale's foot-hall foot-hall prospects are hrighter just now than for many, many years, and the Kli enthusiasts are sure that the Bull-dorr Bull-dorr will come hack into his owe this season. Yale was hit by graduation last .Tune and hit in quite a number of places. But Yale LaO 't Rrog(j" as a result. With the exception of Captain Talbott, the eleven doesn 't Beam to have lost aov man that it will miss. The absentees ab-sentees were among the best Yale had last year, but Yale's best in 1914 was not up to the Yale standard. Lack of real footballers handicapped Coach Frank Hinkey last year, and it was that that enabled Harvard to give Yale the worst beating it has suffered in all its football history. But this year things are different. Yale Has Great Backfield. The Yale backfield for 1H15 seems sure to gaiu fame as one of the greatest great-est in the country. Alex Wilson, captain, cap-tain, is a certainty for quarterback: Gnernsey will be at left half; Seovill a terrific line-smasher, will play the other half. a;ul the wonderful Harrv LeGore will he at full. Wilson and LeGore w-ere regulars last year; Seovil and Guernsey were first-string substitutes. Yet the four playe-l together often enough to perfect per-fect team work, and with Hinkev to school them further in the trickeries of the open jrame, and with the quartette rankinj- as one of the speediest iu the name, there's a promise that some brilliant bril-liant and darrlinc plays will feature the operation, of the Vale backfield. LeGore will do the punting end the drop-kicking, as he vdid last year, unless un-less H in key finds a ' ' rookie ' ' who is better, which seems almost outside of the range of possibilities. Wilson and Guernsey, who boot with eclat, power and accuracy, can do the relief work whenever called upon. Brann and Hilltnan, ends, and Cowov and White, linesmen, are among the men that Yale lost in June. Rut none of them ranked as stars. Knowlee and A ins wort h also were graduated. Both were good halfbacks, but Seovil and (luernsev look good enough to hold down their jobs. Hinkev has left from the 1014 team enough linesmen to form the nucleus of a stone wall line this vear. The sophomore class of lOifi will send to hit!) as candidates at least ten men who are sure of being in the battle for line jobs. Hinkev Vims for Speed. "The bacUfield has alwavs been mv greatest worry,' said Hinkey, 1 a.) ways feel that when 1 have a powerful backfield that T can build a strong line in front of it. And that is how I feel now. "It ij too early just now for me to predict what men will make up the line, because I haven't had a chance to see all the candidates in action. But T am confident of the future, because the mteri that is offered to me looks so good naturallv that 1 am sure it won't take much work tn develop it. " I want weight m the line, of course, but more than anvthing -lo. 1 want speed. The new footb.ill rules place a premium upon speed, and Vale will have speed this year" above all else.' |