Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — YALE NOT RUNNING SMOOTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

YALE NOT RUNNING SMOOTH

Team Is Expected to Improve Great Deal, However, Under Work of Its Expert Coaches. Yale doesn’t stand as Impressively as usual for superiority on the gridiron by anything evidenced as yet this year. Captain Daly hasn’t a coherent, smooth running football machine at his disposal. The team hasn’t got the punch, the power to forge a swift, sure attack when it Is needed. It is expected to improve a great deal, however, under the work of Its expert coaches. Enough games have been played and the season has advanced far enough to make the assertion that the chief aim of those who worked so hard last winter as members of the rules committee has been accompllsh-

ed. The game is much safer and the players are open to fewer and less serious injuries. The game is less exhausting and freer from much unnecessary roughness, which more than anything else opened the way to constant unfavorable criticism. There are bound to be some injuries. It could not be otherwise, in such a strenuous sport, but the injuries up to this time have been of a minor kind, except in two or three cases. Although Yale has suffered more than any other team by the new rules, Head Coach Ted Coy is far from knocking the new code. “Give them a chance,” says the greatest of Yale players. "Despite the fact that people claim there is just as much chance for injury as there. was of yore, the game as it is now played is . not as dangerous as before. And I believe that from a spectator’s viewpoint the new game is much more interesting and exciting. Every play can be seen now, whereas before, when the old rules were in vogue, attack after attack on the line could not be fully appreciated by the spectators, inasmuch as they couldn’t tell who carried the ball.”

Captain Daly of Yale.