Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-24
REVISED FOOTBALL
WILL FAVOR UTAH.
Her Style Of Play VIII Readily
Adapt Itself to the New
Game
MACSEO PLAY GAME MUST co.
Football Authorities are Rapidly Agree
log on a More Open Kind OF Play
Suggestions By Yost

II the new rules fayorug 10 yards as
requirement for first down should 20
into effect, Utah University would be in
no wise a looser The Yost game has
been headed back to the open running
style for several seasons, Football as
Utah has seen 1t this year has been
played as It is only played where Yost
has Influenced IT, When Walter Camp
made his already famous suggestion Of
a l0-yard rule he only brought football
into line with the method YOst has been
winning by for three seasons,
One prominent football authority
Halowell Of Harvard, In an open letter
70 Walter Camp, published In the Bos-
ton Herald, says:
Il ask you to do away with these
oyerdone oyercoached, pile-drlying ma
chimes which are now annually served
up for our applause We are tired OF
this contest Of ponderous tort0ises Give
the hare a chance" lie summarizes the
faults with the present game as fol-
lows.
1.-THE element Of concentrated brute
force Is allowed to play too important
part I'm the winning Of games. The
effort now Of a successful coach Is to
weld II men together into a compact
battering ram. This battering ram II
directed by the quarterback at the most
vulnerable points IN the opponents de-
Tense. The team which In It's machine
In Its machine like regularity most re-
sembles a pile driver can win nine times
out Of TO-
"2-This maxlmlzlng the element Of
brute force limits the possible players
on an IL with the exception Of few
positions) to a comparatively small
number Of undergraduates, towit, TO
those weighted down with the n ost
beef The light active, wiry man, whose
brilliant tackling, running and lodging
add fascination to the scene, has little
place In the modern rush-llne, He has
not the weight to be Of sufficient use IN
either assisting or resisting the fateful
monotonous, stupid. and, when properly
executed, Irresistible strokes Of the
present style Of play The game, In
stead OF being limited 10 beef, ought TO
be open to an entire university IL
should be a student recreation, open to
ALL
"3-MoTeoyer, the value OF the bruls-
ers Of sufficient muscle and -ayolrdupois
Is now so unduy emphasized, and the
supply OF requisite material is therefore
so limited that a premium Is placed
thereby upon a desirable feature which
now EXISTS 10 great extent, towlt up
on efforts to rake over the preparatory
schools and scour the country for suit
able material II material was not so
limited the competition for II would not
be so keen. II Is the ordinary law Of
supply and demand"
The fact that Utah's team, except for
It's three center men. Is composed most
ly Of the highest Of track men, Is a
worthy tribute even by this indictment.
Of modern football, for the style OF play
In use here.
A comparison Of scores acquired this
season illustrates the results attained
by the Yost game, as contrasted to that
Of the old school In the table below Il
VIII be noted that while Yale only
scored 900 for the season OF II games.
Michigan scored 493 for a total OF nine
games Utah5s total for seven games
Of POI is greater than the score OF Yale.
Pennsylvania, Princeton, Harvard.
Stanford, California, West Point, An
napolis, and in fact Of all colleges ex-
cept Michigan, Carlisle. Northwestern,
Chicago. and Wisconsin.
The lesson that Utah is In the fore Of
the new movement Is obvious. The
comparative standing OF theb liz teams
In as follows.