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Show I MONTY REVIEWS If FOOTBALL STARS I I ffl ' Brawn, Speed, Courage and II I la Brains Main Qualifications 1 jj ; for Pigskin Winner. 111! WHY LEGORE IS OUT III ( IU ' Head Coach of Blues Fears I H J Mighty Tackier Will Make f(l ' Disastrous Slips. Ill I I m ! New York, October 9. Brawn Is rc- IHJij garded generally as the main qualifl- !l ilUii' cation for a football star. Speed ranks Il'l flilllf second to brawn If not quite equal III! ijgi to it in value Courage, of course, ln Js an absolutely necessary attribute tfillf WItn tncse three fundamental charac- in terlstics exhibited In large amounts. JIM it would not seem that anything could lllil' lceep a man of tliat type off a team iSilin' But tnerG ,s one more element that UM counts brains. Head Coach Frank rwfl- Ilinkey of Yale ranks brains first of Ffflfft a11- III1! Wall' During the later stages of the game I LlB 8r ith Virginia last Saturday, there I li Imn wer0 loud crIes of "Le6re' Legore. ' I 1 wrl "Give us Legore," shouted the New llififl Haven partisans as they saw their II If! fl prides being humbled, crushed to the Um'i turf b the amart Plav,n o the wel1 MMiw drilled southerners. Virginia had 'I M madc tlie scoro 10 t0 and there were Ml Urn' onlv a few Jn'011165 of PIa' left" "Now lirS' Hinkey will put in his trump- card," PI fill St opined many of those In the stands. III 111' But ne didn't. Legore sat on the side-kHMI side-kHMI 1Ines wit t,,e substitutes and the BlIMJifl? Blue was trotldon t0 dereac u"cr iLllffif T tuose same figures 10 to 0. rlllSjl Legore Marvelous Player. WlHif Harvard remembers Harry Legore $!jffft -ircll. So does Princeton. The great fc'IN work of this big fellow in the battles JjUrl last year was the outstanding bright JJrFG BPot in Yale's performance in both kfp the loading games. His marvelous Mffj! passing, fine open field running and 9Bf T sure, hard tackling were important i ffi L" factors in nearly every successful fMBi move the Elis made. If j "When the season ended, a largo (mBHI number of leading critics ranked him IjJWh! second only to Harvard's Eddie Jla- ki bail as a valuable all-around backflcld HIE ' man. BSl Loses No Prowess. IV ! Legore has lost none of his prowess H He can pass just as well if not better BB, t than last year, and does everything nHHjji else in just as capable a way as he IB, J? did. "Why. then, has Legore been kept IHr on the second eleven so far this sea- R Bon' That is the biggest mystery jflm of the college football world. Various HM i explanations have been advanced but IlH i none of them have been proved to IP Hi I be true. Moreover, not one of those IK iff ! guesses has been tho right one pBltTJ "Hinkey Is saving Legore for the lkI big games later on and doesn't want JijM to risk his getting injured in tho llJlifl early affairs" that is tho most pop- lilUilll ular Suess- Legore on the second IjHf team in practice has been the big sen- HK I sation. The daily reports of progress lR S behind the barred gates at New Hav- mmm'. ' en contain regular accounts of how lY j the husky lad has smeared the var- IBJi sity, several times peeling off long runs that have enabled the scrubs to lHj triumph over the regulars. He has IK1 powerful football player at Yale. t Hinkey Saving Star. jfl "Legore is being kept off tho var- iH . ' sity team for the present so that the nM ', other men will get a chance to de- gn velop; thus Hinkey will have plenty AH of first class substitutes available ! when the big time rolls around" IB I there is another of the guesses. This IB seems to be borne out by the fact that I BR a whole lot of men have been tried I Bi ' out in practice as back on the first Bi 1 combination. Guernsey, Scovil, Cap- . B j ta'n Alex Wilson, Easton, Chatfleld- ;H Taylor and even young Charley Taft ih son of the former president, have B been employed behind the line. This JM hunch and several others can be IB found doing the varsity duties in ev- Ifl ery scrimmage practice while Legore. lBj the greatest of the entire collection, 2BI outshines the whole lot on the second team "Hinkey will use the early part of the season to select the best from this hunch and then will line up those fellows alongside Legore in the big games." That guess also is a highly popular one. All these speculations are wrong. The real reason Legore has not been on the first team Is an entirely different dif-ferent one. We were talking, to a former Yale man, one who once held a position of great prominence ai Yale, but now is rather obscure from the standpoint of the public eye He has nade a number of visits back ta-his ta-his alma mater to help out, and is In touch with every phase of the situation situa-tion as it stands at present. It may, sound like treason for a Yale man toj be exposing a fact of the kind he has I divulged, but he reasons that it will be a good thing for the Bluo to have, it generally known, so that outside pressure will be brought to bear on Hinkey to change his mind on the subject. For, be it known, this informant in-formant thinks Hinkey is making a mistake His explanation of the Legore Le-gore situation will bo presented in his own exact words, as near as we can remember them. "Hinkey is deathly afraid of Le- f gore," says the Yalo wellwlsher, "every "ev-ery moment Legore is on the field afraid he will mako some mistake in tactics that will mean disaster Legore Le-gore has been known to miss a signal and then not say 'Chock.' The signal may bo for him to carry the ball, but he will take a chance on it. Sometimes Some-times he falls to catch just what tho signal Is and thinks it Is something entirely different from what It is and will act accordingly, theteby jumbling jum-bling the entire play. "Legore is a mighty tackier, a fine man In defense in all its physical phases but is likely to be fooled completely com-pletely by some trick play of the opposition. op-position. There are other phases of his lapses in this line that could be mentioned, but the ones I speak of are enough to illustrate the point. Hinkey is keeping Legore out of tho game because be-cause he fears his slips at a possibly important moment when he may lose a closo game. Star Makes Little Mistakes. "Legore, however, is a physical player of such a wonderful grade that I believe his little mistakes can be overlooked. Eliminating the times when he errs, he is so valuable that his presence makes tho team at least 50 per cent stronger Ills slips could not figure more than C per cent of the time. On that basis, it seems to me that Yale would be 45 per cent more effective with him on tho team. "Maybo Hinkey feels that by keeping keep-ing Legore on the seconds he can fill tho star full of new ambition to keep his mind on every detail of play Maybo May-bo he intends later on to put Legore in when he has developed tho giant to tho desired stage Perhaps, though, he merely is intending to make him stay off the team for good and all during this season. If so he Is making mak-ing a fcarrul grror I sincerely hope Hinkey will change his tactics beroro It is too late and that ho will got Harry Legore in there soon enough to fit in with the others. If Legore Is kept out, T really believe Yale will be beaten by . both Harvard and Princeton. If he iB in the game, I think Yale will have quite a bit better bet-ter than an even chance " |