New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-16
METHODS OF DEVELOPING
OUICKNES.S AND ALERT
BRAIN WORK.
SOME INSTANCES IN WHICH THEY HAVE
AYAILED To CARRY THE BLUE
To SUCCESS

examined, weighed ana every possible question
answered as TO his condition and antecedents.
Then he is directly TO the field. where he
hseins work under the eye of his captain and the
,rsner the coach being development of much
later IN the season. Some men never learn the
FIRST rudments Of the game. and TO watch the first
,hree days practice of the falling the ball
or getting up speed from the line at the word of
she captain is often amusing. The way to fall on
. hall is 10 throw ones self at II and IT, curling
I'D around and squeezing with legs and stomach.
GOOD many green set the grandstands bowling
With laughter they jump cumsiy for the ball
and then lose il. After a week two the men
have learned falling on the ball and jumping for it
from the line. and then initiated into the
iutricacies of tackling about the hardest thing a
football has 10 learn. il is the most danger
GUS good many aspirants never learn IL at all
lIost universities have swinging dummy hung
from crossbar. which off and falls the
ground when tacl1ler grabs it, For several weeks
every the team is instructed I'm the art of
,scking the dummy before il is safe for him 10 try
his knowledge a fellow player. II has 10 be
fscked around the waist knees and with a
iunge forward the tacAer shooting headlong
through the air he makes his try. II is diff
cult and dangerous thing to do. but often in
big game doing 1t score. Nowadays there
ere few natural and furious tackles any team
and the small colleges have just many as the big
ones II is only occasionally that tackler like
Hinkey or Murphy. OF Yale. is found. Most players
try TO get their without the flying tackle
When the candidates Know All the documentary
things they begin the actual work, and by that
time their number is materially decreased. For
the FIRST month the team is taught straight
football. that is, simple formations, such as eno
runs. centre plunges and tackle plays. This year
Yale used only few complicated formations IN the
minor games Later on. the team is instructed IN
very complicated tactics in which plays are used
that are tricky or which bring into the interfer-
enoe 4 greater number of men. The team that
can use these besides regular play is much strong
that account.
In the big games II is the hardening process
through which the team has gone that makes it
most effective. Brute force and ''prizefght tao
tics" have much smaller play in modern university
football than the public generally supposes. MOST
often the men matched against each other tight
Il out" by pure skill and cleverness and rough
house" play is not at all popular with the best
trainers To get the jump on the opponent is
Of course. necessary. hut ii is seldom nowadays
that actual hghting takes place, all OF the cohese
teams froWning down on such tacucs. but years
ago in was a little different. story Is tolo OF
..Finv, Rhodes the famous Yale tackle of dec
ede ago who went up against man half as big
again for three years in the big games. hhooes
was plucky tackle, and a brilliant one Out ne
was not match physically for his opponent The
first year they met. his antagonist had no trouble
IN ..putting him out Of business. The second year
they fought il out in the first half I'LL the hale
man was getting badly used up. on every play MS
big opponent would bring his fist up on the snap
hzrk halter him on the AloAAl- IN 800
rlayer stood this as long as he could. and then
thought OF a scheme. On the next play ne Drought
sis foot down on his opponents shin hare on
the snapback and then, jumping back held up MS
hand and shouted:
Mr. Referee."
when she referee looked up it just In time
20 see the Yale mans opponent hitting him square
~ in the Jaw and, of course. he was Immediately
ruled off the field Rhodes ii Is said. did the same
thing the next year and so freed himself OF man
whom he had hard work 10 handle
In bsrd game between two well-known college
teams some seasons ago II IS said that little cen
ire played much the same game on his bag ahtaeo-
mist who had been bothering him. The snort man
was getting the worst of the combat at centre
when ne discovered that his big opponent had a
well developed boil on the nape Of his neck AFTER
receiving A severe pummelling every time he had
70 snap the hall he began 10 hit the ball each time
me other leaned over, with the cage OF ms
hand and this quickly put the bigger man out OF
the game.
But cases OF heroism the football field are
much more numerous than those OF mere brute
force because heroism is one Of the quantes mat
the sturdy game Of football teaches. In nearly
every year stories told Of this or that man VINO
rlayed through a game with broken collsroone
as Norris Ely did for Yale in the Princeton game
Of 1895 and either did not know It because OF ms
intentness on the play, or refused 10 ADMIT IT,
Never does a man have 10 leave the srioifon no
matter how had his injuries without making pas
sonste demand be allowed to stay in the eruei-
ling contest. A sprained ankle twisted nluscle' a
sont displaced brain shocks, are OF less mo-
nent 10 football players than 20 the ordinary run on
men ana few injuries of that kind does player tell
sbout until sfterHard The training season brings
this out because during the long preliminary season
:. Is The man who can show he has tine SUM ia
him" that wins a place. II is not an Unusual INNS
20 see al any Of the large universities player pau
+, burt leen on his feet because he doesn't want 10
tel the trainer he is hurt And trainers oeheVe IN
letting an injured man go long way before ne Is
,ued nm .'Babying' football players Is uhhea'u oi.
Along with actual physical and moran heioI s-.
mental alertness and Quickness OF Judgment 49,
most in a football player who goes lhlo S
- r, d,fncult goal from the field which
,,o,,, poe Kicked a year so ago at hale Fieiu
vas q remarkable instance of this. zoe hao new 5
k,ckad a goal before. and within a re" hiiiu l'
az the END Of the game Princeton was t"".i'' -
yards from Yale's goal. ana aiihost oii ~,
i,-as here she angle is so difficult that even t"s
-. ,,l,sned hickers would not be sure oil
ve,,srg over the bar. Stories nave "liiereu % -
hon Poe came 10 do il, but the one mus So
sc.on,ed has been that he VoiuhVee.eu q" ~ =,
,o,,. council of his team just peloie 'IiA
called. and so got the chance, 49, -. 49,
xnanne6 hack 20 him. not princeton Paye "-1
Ss - oo,,Id kick the goal, and certainly nc
va. -, had but the ball lett roe lool any
sanes Nth perfect precision between the
vas a rare show OF perfect conuoi VI iiN ''
Poe % do the trick -. !. - r.sllv @ diff
-. .se.s - 40 and hardly one man IN tnre'
vs.-x h.~oroes profcient al IT, Goal oroppe's liA'
sharpe. OF Yale: Daily. OF Harvard ai,o ne W.
% Pr4noston, are rare. the usua' ..-o,.,s,.s
errstically or not al all Csuaiy $50 80. - -,
kt.lo- a. .sken IN hand early In the year Oy som
-. :. ..s~s,s- ~ renown and his nose Is KEEP
:, - vs.,ane-or his toe 10 the ps4i-ssta-eH
tbrouvh she season One OF the most famous %
Kicks IN Ysle's football history oeeu -. 49,
outset. in 1876. when iho ols ~ ss,d rzba, ,