The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-10


versity OF North Dakota.
Player Wright. on the Michigan
scrubs. was ripping-beg pardon-he
was playing cleverly against the var
sity. Coach Yost called in fresh man
and said: Get in there and do that
Wright" The fact that no lynching
followed this atrocity is proof that
iost is real idol at Ann Arbor.
The new rules do not acknowledge
such rough method of PLAY as charg-
ing. When the ball is snapped one
team does not get the charge" on the
other: the players simply move to-
ward the restraining line" Isn't that
nonbrutal for you?
Coach Sweetland tells his men it
will be fata: 70 drop forward pass
He means it would be tough luck.
Anything as brutal as fatality has
been given the skidoo sign.
A number of stars of the Grand
Forks high school have suffered in
juries that will keep them out of the
game for some time. They are in the
hospital with the disease called neg
new thing in football.
North Dakota used triphammer
play Burtness around to cleave the
Grand Forks high schools line in her
first game. II makes one shudder to
think what such play means OF
course the coaches will give it softer
name.
Michigan has new play called
'skying ends" This has mild, nice
day ring to it that seems in keeping
with the game as she is to be played
Everybody agrees that when the for
ward pass works it's beautiful play.
But. like other things of great beauty,
it's rarity.
Whatever may be the eventual YER
dict on the new football rules, there
was more optimism than pessimism
among conservative experts after see
ing the revised game in operation last
Saturday. Certainly the contests
were more Kaleidoscope than those
we have been accustomed to. and If
1t turns out that the game has been
improved spectacularly and the re-
mainder of the season keeps in line
with Saturday in the scarcity of
roughness and accidents, any objec-
tons Of technical nature that play
ers and coaches may have to the new
rules are not paramount.
1t. of course, remains to be seen
how the ten yard rule will work out
IN a practical way. The questions
at present are: Can ground be gained
consecutively under this rule: Can
plays in connection with speedy team
work be planned and executed so that
two strong teams evenly matched will
rot mean a game Of purposeless tuss-
ling and no steady ground gaining?
One thing is sure, they can't If the
players don't try to devise such
manoeuvres. A great deal depends
on the spirit with which the players
set about to make the most of the
new rules. Unquestionably, there are
possibilities in the 1907 code for a
variety of fast, open, spread out plays
winch the proper spirit and enthusi-
asm in developing will bring about.
On the contrary if one has made uD
his mind beforehand that the rules
will not do he is less likely to do
much with them.
- eAAS Aiiei'h oOJCSllOu6 W lOOl-
ball the last few years was that there
was too much monotonous line plug
ging. too much use of beef at the ex-
pense of skill and too little seen of
the ball by the spectators. The ten
| yard rule was designed to diminish
these faults. If team cannot gain
it's distrance by line plugging then
other methods of advance are forced
In it. That's where strategy and re-
sourcefulness will be more at a pre-
MUM.
| 1t is true that last Saturday four
teams were able to make ground con-
sistently; that is. where they had any
sort OF opposition, but the new rules
are in their very infancy and no teams
as yet have ground gaining PLAYS in
woodworking order. But there was
frequent change of ownership of the
ball last Saturday, more open play
than ever took place under the old
rules and the ball was in sight of
the spectators more than it ever was
before.
The forward pass, which cannot be
otherwise than stirring play; the
quarterback kick, double passes.
dashes for the end of the line. punt
ing with the chances of getting the
ball by the new onside kick-all
! these things were seen with a cor