Evening star., 1905-11-05
COLLEGE FOOT BALL

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stipulation being that he so five yards out
ss~e OF center. Woodruff has read this rule
more clearly than other eastern coaches.
Judging from the style OF game displayed
Dy otner colleges. one would conclude that
the quarterback was the only man who
could carry the ball on the first pass.
WoodruR-Eet -eaiy used his quarterback.
Mt. Pleasant. to carry the ball. but gave 1t
70 the other backs and thus put his entire
back neld In the interference. To make this
play successful the back field lined up about
three yards back of the line of scrimmage.
The backs punched together and the quar-
ter made feint as though Co receive the
other backs. either the haIfback or full
back When the runner received the ball
the entire back field was in motion and 1t
was seldom that the play failed to gain.
Like the quarterback run. this is a trick
play. and II used too often will not gain
ground consistently. The advantage of the
Indians exhibition was to show the many
possibilities Of this play which other
coaches apparently had not thought of. The
play as used by the Indians can undoubted-
iy be greatly improved. but 1t showed I'D
the lack OF invention by many of the mod
ern coaches.
The prevalence of good drop kickers on
the minor college teams and the lack Of
them on the big university eleyens have he.
come so market as to attract considerable
attention The 1905 season so far has not
produced single drop kicker of note.
The only possible exception to this is
Scnuitz OF Columbia, who saved J.olum-
pia from defeat at the hands of Amherst
Dy crop Kicking a goal In the last thirty
seSonos or play; But Schultz at best is
only a third substitute. As matter of
fact the big universities pay very little
attention to drop kicking.
With the minor colleges the reverse Is
ene case. The most notable drop kickers
OF the year In the east are Shuster of
Lafayette Crowell of Swarthmore, Nor
ton OF Annapolis and Tooker of Princeton.
the latter. however, has not kicked any
field goals this year, but because of his
1904 reputation is expected to do so before
the season ends. Crowell. the Swarthmore
captain, Is one OF the best drop kickers the
east has seen. In 1904 he kicked thirteen
Held goals. and one of them from the
hfty-four-yard mark. has never been ex-
celled. In that year he kicked the only
goal scored against Pennsylvania. and he
Lafayette is a close second and in two
games this year averaged three goals in
each. Against Princeton he saved his team
from whitewash by kicking a goal from
the forty-two-yard line
Nothing has occurred within recent years
to SO stir up the amateur athletic world
as the confession and charges of Arthur
Duney. the former worlds champion
sprinter. In series of magazine articles
he Is writing. Duffey admits that he has
been professional since 1885, and that he
has been deceiving the amateur and inter-
collegiate public since that time by posing
as an amateur. Duffey's athletic asso-
ciates are not SO greatly surprised that he
should be proven professional, for he has
been under a cloud for good many years
the SnSpiciOnS heipo haca oP bfc
frequent trips to England and other places
for purposes of competition. What has
aroused the athletes. however. is Duffey's
insinuation that the majority of college and
amateur athletes are also professionals
just as he is.
Just what means the A. A. U. and Inter-
collegiate Association will take to punish
Duffey is not known, but they do not
propose to let the matter drop. AS a pre-
liminary they have stripped him OF, his
records. which included three worlds rec
and English records. Secretary Sullivan de-
oJares that the English and American
unions will act together in the case. One
of the results of Duffey's exposure will
be the prevention of college and other anna
teur athletes going abroad during the sum-
mer months under the sanction of the A
A. u During the past few years this evil
has been growing and the A. A. u. pro-
poses to refuse permission to American ath-
leteS to make summer tours of England
or elsewhere
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The action of the Intercollegiate A. A.
A. A. in deciding not to let the University
Of Pennsylvania hold the annual champion
ship track meet on Franklin Field next
May was to have been expected. 1t seems
to be the consensus Of opinion that these
games should be held in New York. which
is a more central location than Philadel
phia They were transferred to New York
for the reason that there were no suitable
grounds there two years ago. when the
Berkeley Oval was destroyed. II was then
suggested that they be given to Pennsylva-
MIA or Harvard. The officials declined to
give them to Harvard because of the objec-
tions raised by Yale, who thought this
would be giving Harvard an undue advan-
tage. The same issue was raised last
spring. and since Penn was too weak to
be dangerous to the leaders the games
were once more given to Penn.
This year Penn Is barred because Mike
Murphy, the greatest trainer in the coun-
try has been secured by the Quakers, and
the Red and Blue has once more become
a dangerous factor in track athletics. Now
neither Harvard nor Yale will concede to
Penn the advantage OF holding these games
on home grounds. Penn and Yale will un-
doubtedly vote against Harvard, so that the
meet will probably be held in New York
again IL Columbia does not have a field
of her own by that time the meet will
probably be awarded to New York Univer-