The Helena independent., 1891-11-27


Fush lines as they stand in sorimmaRe,
We notice that there are eight spaces
Through which run can be made.
2 8 4 3 6 Z 8
Two of these, and 8, are outside the end
men and extend from them TO the boundary
ines. These two spaces are constantly
changing according to where the ball ia down
for serimMRge. II the sorimmaQe 10 mid
way between the side lines they are equal,
but % it approaches one or the other side
inc tho space next the line decreases while
Tho other increases. Thus opportunitios
ero constantly given for making what is
termed an END play" and generally speak
ing tho chances are best on the side whore
the space is larger.
Playing around the ends has come to be
pne Of the most popular plays because, if
buocessful, it usually results in long gain.
In this part of the rush line there is less
protection, for experience has taught that
t 10 better to strengthen tho center by keep
ng the men close together in that place,
hnd trust to the distance runner with the
ball would have to 70 to reach the end to
give time to send assistance to that spot
An end play is tho most interesting of all
The plays to the spectators bsceuss of the
open running and dodging which always
lakes place, the fine blocking of and then
khs brilliant tackle which, II likely to follow
Dn that play, but to the careless observer
what sometimes seems like long run on
this play 10 merely run yaorOss the nsld
with little or no gain.
In 1889 the end play was perfected BY the
Fystem of interference then originated. Be-
fore this the half-baok making the play had
10 depend largely on his own end man for
his assistance, but in that year Princeton,
BY skillfully running their two half backs
Ind quarter back ahead of the full-back or
Faokls with the ball, were able to get
areund the ends moro frequently and to
make longer gains. happened to SEQ the
Harvard Princeton game of that year whore
the new system was put into use, and with
terrible eject against Harvard. Time and
hgain SNAKE" Ames ran around the HRr-
yard ends, being beautifully guarded, and
tmads touchdown after touchdown after
brilliantly covering thirty. forty or fifty
cards.
The most common way is for one Of the
phalf-backs to take tho ball and to run
around the opposite end preceded by tho
fnterfersrs.
Spaces two and seven, between end and
tackls, are tue next largest in size. Plays
through these holes have become moro and
more frequent. Systems, Of interfersnos
opening one of the best for playing. Last
J ear this spot in the line was a frequent
place of attack by both Harvard and Yale,
knd this year it will be uaed even more fire.
Auertly. In this play the end man is
showed out toward the side of the fsld,
while the tackle il showed in toward the
bsntsr.
Spaces three and six have to be made by
ths tackle and guard pushing their oppo
hents out and in, respectively, ss tho play
brs stand close together in this part of the
Pine. These are used great doal in ad-
Fancing the ball, not only by the backs,
put also by tho tackles and guards whom
fhe quartsr-pack. think that these spaces
hre used more than any other pair, esps-
Pially for plunRing for short gains. ra-
member very sorrowfully the way Prince
E.n plowed for sixty yards straight down
The field through this spot in our Yale rush
(ins aftor Billy Rhodes was put off in the
Oval game of 1889.
Spaces four and five are not quite 10 vul-
herable ~ three and six, although they can
ee made very effective for playing whom
Ehe center rushsr and guards thoroughly
understand their werk. A remarkable in
btancs of this occurred in the Yale Prince
lon game Of 1856, which contest was also
hotable for Lamar's famous run Of over
Ewe-thirds Of the length of the field, there
BY winning the game after Yale had it we'll
in haRd and with only six minutes moro to
play. Princeton had forced YAle down to
her five or ten-yard line amidst tremendous
phesrinR on the part of her supporters,
who thought that = touch down must fol-
low. But Yale here made grand rally
memorable series of short plunges through
ths sentsr by Ben Morrison and Watkin-
BON, carrying the ball from near their own
goal line we'll into Princeton's territory, a
feat only surpassed in the large games by
That of Yale in last ysar's game At Spring
Held, when tho ball was carried from tho
penter OF tho field for touchdown without
nncs losing it.
No member of an eleven il debarred from
running with ths ball from sorimmage If
be conforms with the rule that no ono can
run forward with the ball until it has
touched . third man. This then. would al
low everybody except the center rushor.
Who puts it in play, and the quarter back,
Who receives it. to run with the ball. but
y would be unwise to run every player.
up to 1883 the center lushsr sometimes put
The ball into play by making hunt kick,
IND then picking il up and running with it.
u the alo-Harvard game of that year
Corbin, Yale's center rushsr, distinguishsd
himself by doing this twice for long gains,
quarterback also was more frequently used
!or running through the line than now, but
he ball used to be handed to him by one
II tho guards, who picked 1t out from
indsr the snapper-baok's foot.
Harry Beechor. Yale's famous little
Iuartsr- back, used to make this play TO
scarcely ever falling to make
rood gain. Frank Peters, who was captain
y Yale whom Bsscher first played quarter
back, had the curious signal of splitting on
he ground for this play, and then little
3scchsr would be scen emerging from
lols in thu opposite rush line and 20 dodg-
ng down the flsld.
said that everybody except the center
usher can run with the ball from scrim-
mage, but that 1t IL unwiss to run some on !