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Yale's greatest problems will most likely be in building up a strong backfield and strengthening the offence. Two of last year's team, N. Wheeler and T. H. Cornell, are available for the position of quarterback. D. Markle and H. A. Pumpelly are the only two backs who have had experience in the final games of last season. Of these, Pumpelly, is a drop-kicker and line plunger of ability...
Yale started her practice in New Haven on September 11, when 30 men reported to head coach H. H. Jones, Captain Jr. On September 12, a squad of 20 lineman who had been working for a week on Nantucket Island, and a smaller squad of backfield men who had been receiving preliminary kicking instruction at Newport, R. I., under Dr. W. T. Bull, joined the rest of the squad bringing the total number...
...squad have shown up exceedingly well at the tackle positions. At centre Marking has shown exceptional speed and it is thought that he will given a try-out there, with MacLeish, another good substitute, as an understudy. Captain Ketcham would in that case be shifted to end. In the backfield Wilson, quarterback of the 1916 freshman eleven, has distance both Wheeler and Gornish in competition for the quarterback position. The backfield has been further strengthened by Guernsey, a powerful line-plunger; Knowles, a promising drop and place-kicker; and C. Taylor. With this array of good material the coaches...
...Princeton backfield will be a light one and hence Coaches Andrews and Bluenthal are developing the open style of play. Merritt, Streit, and Gile have been used in the fullback position, while Captain Baker and Glick have played halves. Boland is being tried at quarterback...
...While the line men of the team are fairly strong, the weakness of the backfield is a problem hard solve and it is apparent already that the task extraordinary for Coach Sharpe this year will be to find fast capable backs. The old combination, which at the end of last season proved effective, notably in the game against. Pennsylvania, has been broken up. Even if Taber and Fritz should play two, other halfbacks and above all a capable fullback must be found, to say nothing of a field general...