The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-17
A FOOTBALL SCIENTIST.
He Never Played a Game in His Life
But He Knows All Abous II.

Some three years ago Mr.. Lorin q
leland saw game of football by ac-
cident, and, like many another man
was immensely taken with it. Then
ne went to another match and watch
ed it closely. and then another. fin he
finally began to appreciate the skill
required in executing the different
plays. and to realize how pIentifnllv
man would be rewarded if he would
put his mind upon the theoretical nos
sibilities of the game and study them
out into practical results.
lie spent year at odd times in tho
intervals of his active business study-
ing the principles Of The Sport in tba
abstract, drawing out his conventions
OF many new play on paper. and
gradually the idea grew upon him thai
the eVolutionS carried out during a
football match by the two eleyens
were relatively the same as those exc
cuted by two armies during a battle.
lhen he began to re-read his we'll
worn books on Napoleons military
tactics and the history of Napoleon, s
campaigns
One of the chief points brought out
by the great French general was that
1t he could mass A large proportion Of
his troops and throw them against a
weak point of the enemy he coulfl
easily defeat that portion, and gain
ing their rear. create havoc with the
rest. Following out this idea. Mr.. Do
land argued to himself that if he could
get a football team so arranged tina
the eleven men should throw their en-
tire weight strength and momentum
against weak poin. Of the opposing
team, which must be necessarily sta-
tlonary, detached and incapable of us
ing its full weight in opposition, they
would break through and make ground
very fast.
Mr.. Deland then proceeded to put
this into practice, first on paper and
then on the field. with the result that
by taking advantage of a rule in foot
ball which oblses the opposition team
TO keep con side until the ball is put
into play. he could get his eleven run
ming at full speed in a we'll organized
and compact body against the 'fends'
and tackles" to complete the military
evolutions; and cut of this came the
flying wedge of last years Harvard
eleven. which has been taken UP in 4
dozen different forms all over the
country this year
1t was a rather remarkahle case
where a man who had never PLAYED
the game, who scarcely l1ne7- the rules.
was yet able to touch a vital spot in
the game itself. and accomplish some
thing that old players had never taken
into account In doing this Mr. De-
land has opened a new field in the
science of football; for this new sys-
TEN of Zine up has been. or rather
is likely to be. only the beginning of
more different fornatio on the part
Of one team, together with uncertainty
on the part of the other as to what is
to take place.
Mr.. Deland is a resident Of Boston.
occupied with his business Of serving
as expert counsellor TO business men
in many different occupations and he
is only following out this chosen pro
fession of his in giving his expert"
counsel In connection with fortball. II
is entirely case of enthusiasm with
hinl-a love for the game itself and
an interest to discover what he can
do with the sport as it is presented
to him. And there can be little dnuot
that he has not orly done a great deal
with football. but that he has already
made himself famous in this novel
amusement. H. Sears, in Harper's
Weekly.
Little Girl Detectives.
Two little girls in Jersey City, one
OF them 10, the other y, captured two
burglars the other day. They we're going