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Show PAPAL TO COACH HARVARD TEAM Cambridge, Mass , Sept. I Coach Joseph A Papal, of Orlontal College, Los Angeles, will assist In preparing the Harvard football team this season. sea-son. Coach Pipal will act as advisorv coach during the first few weeks o'f training. doelopJng the open style of play, with which he has been so successful suc-cessful in the West Coach Pipal is recognized as one of tho ablest exponents of the open game now before the public. It was he who introduced into American football foot-ball the Rugby passing rush, a play used successfully by Princeton last season. Coaching a team in California, up to this year the stronghold of Rugby, he has had every opportunity of 'selecting 'select-ing Rugby tactics which fit the American Ameri-can game. Pipal will bo with the Harvard team until about September 20 Practice Prac-tice will begin next week It was in 1912 that Pipal began his sensational work on the Coast. His open play was discussed by eastern university men that season, with the result that in 1913 Princeton attempted attempt-ed it to some extent. Yale followed suit. Last year both Yale and Princeton Prince-ton adopted many of the Coast coach's tactics in their open play, tho Yale- ulu00n battle belnS tho greatest exhibition of the passing game over seen in the East. With Brickley gone, the advent of the Coast coach may mean an entirely new style in Harvard's offense for the coming year Speed will be the chiel asset of the Harvard back field this season, and Head Coach Houghton will try to use this speed to the best advantage Hence eastern critics believe be-lieve that the adoption of a "radical system of open play will follow the visit of tho Callfornian to Cambridge 1TItJhfd been "oped, according to Head Coach Houghton, to secuio Pin-al Pin-al for the entire season, but his con-tracts con-tracts with Occidental pi evented this |