Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16
COACHES OIsPLAY
UNUSUAL INTEREST
NEW RULES CALL FOR INVENT
I'VE ABILITY
Because Of Radical Changes More
Plays viii BE Sprung This Fall
Than Ever Before in Foot
ball History
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BOSTON. Mass. Sept. l5-An un' m
ueual amount of interest is pelns 1. ul9
pIaved by coaches to learn WhSt ss' -, y
If game other coaches are thinklns VI
employing under the new IuleS ,be
,o1,cal changes there will be more new
uisvs and formations sprung this lalt,
nan In the entire previous history VI
rrbe new rules will make ii absolutely
necessarv for the coaches 10 use thelt
inventive ability, and good many VI VI
them have been laborng over new pay
for a good part of their summer Nae%
tions. Naturally good many ol Ia Ia
new plays will have to be discarueu
as useless. for their availability can
not he properly tested except in real
game. g.. beve
tal.en the most advanced steps in SOW
ing the new plays which can ana ana
should be used this fall. The Bns
held an unusually long and thorough
practice last spring and the players
mastered a good many points aoou'
the new style of football
The nresence of Walter Camp, the
editor of the new rules, enabled the
vale men to understand good many
noints in advance of the other teams
Inst what the Ellis purpose to spring
this fall no one knows to certainty
Information Leaks Out
Rut information has leaked out OF
one peculiar formation on Wnicn olt ost
most time was spent in practice last
snring. In this information there were
fen men on the line of scrimmage, the
only one behind it being the quarter
back. IT.
If can be seen at a glance that this
play is intended as trick and is capa-
BILE of more variations than the FAMOUS
wing shift used to such good advantage
by the Carlisle Indians.
The play is capable of a great many
tricks. criss- crosses and cross bucks. IL
should be noted, however, that TINS
formation was just as feasible under
the old rules as under the new
Under the old rules coaches appar-
emily did not think it necessary to use
their ingenuity. Now they are applying
all their ability to the new rules ana
as a result there ought to be mucn
real progress made in the matter OF
new and original plays
Is Feature of New Rules
What is to be one of the features OF
football under the new rules Is the
great emphasis which coaches every
where have decided to place on KICK
ing.
< long and consistent punter promises
20 be about the most valuable man on
the team. and a man who can outk,ck
ali his rivals is virtually sure to MS
place on the team, even IL ne 10 lieiA0
in other respects.
To make certain that this sort OF
game would be properly developed, tne
leading institutions last spring nelu
sneciaI hunting contests for their play
ers. and many of the men were m
structed to take footballs home WIN
them on their summer vacations anu
there to practice punting and drop
kicking.
The real reason for emphasizing the
kicking game is not that good kicking
is to be rewarded any more than II
ever was. 1t is merely because the
new rule requiring the ball to be ad-
vanced te yards III three downs VIII
so frequently put team in such
plight that it will be required to kick
much oftener, and long punting VIII
mean more than it ever did.
And under such circumstances 1t is
to be regretted that there are few
first class punters in any of the east
ern colleges. In fact, the east has not
been able to boast of any good kicker
since the day of John Dewitt, the old
Princeton captain.
Supply of Kickers Is Poor
But the poor supply of kickers is
not due to the fact that good klckers
could not be developed. 1t is rather
due to lack of attention paid to this
department of the game.
Now that there is a premium placed
on good kicking weg may expect TO see
a host of good kickers turned out in
all the eastern colleges. Furthermore
the rise i'll the standard of puntlng VIII
be followed by a similar rise in the
standard of drop kicking. Both of these
changes will be most welcome TO tol-
lower of the game
Manicures will be as essential to
the new football as bone settlers were
to the old, for no match may now be
entered into by any youth who has
projecting finger nails
If 1t should happen that he finds him
self on the gridiron without having
complied with this provision he has
just two minutes in which to avail
himself of the services of a manicure
Some of the candidates for gridiron
honors this fall say they could not
possibly submit to being forced to sit
at a little table OH the side lines with
one hand in rose water and the other
unScr an orange wood stick.
Must Manicure Nails
1t will be maddening, they aver
when the scrimmage is at its height
to have to say something polite to a
fair young thing with yellow hair, who
viii inquire:
pleasant day, isn't it? / have just
an awful cold. haven't L? Do | hurt
you? Where do you usually get your
manieurng done? What do you think
Of George Cohan? Lovely weather isn't
it? Are you i'm u hurry"
II stands none the less written. No.
|, section e, is as follows:
mo player having projecting nails
on his person will be permitted to play
In match. Penalty, suspension unless
the fault is corrected in two minutes" e"
No foot ball player who is particular
about how his finger nails look could
have them properly manicured in two
minutes, il is feared, but the length
Of the appendages Is left TO the dis
cretion of the umpire.
Several of the youths are deeply con-
cerned. for the prevailing style of foot