The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-22
IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD.
COACH TORREY On THE PLAI'
DISPUTED BY YOST.
Pert Legal. says the Pennsylvania Man
What Camp Of Yale says Regarding
the Point Princeton View % Forward
Pass -PractIce OT the varsity Teams.

Pass Practice Or the varsity Teams.
Evidently there il a wrong impression in
certain quarters in the West regarding the
, plays used by PENNSYLVANIA against Michigan.
which Coach Yost contends were not per-
missible under the rules. We are told that
-.he Quakers were determined 10 use their
guards and tackles for carrying the ball.
although in direct defiance of the rules.
and that two oil Pennsylvania best ground
gamers we're Draper. playing left tackle. and
Ziegler. the big right guard. These men
were drawn back OF the line. which Is In vio-
lation of the rules this season, but Penn
syIyania had TO win that game. and to do II
needed the services OF these men. both IN
the line on defence and back OF IL on offence.
90 they. twisted the rules TO suit themselves.
whether fair TO Michigan or not.
Yost went to Nashville yesterday from
New York. where he put in most of his time
since the Pennsylvania Michigan game. As
has been told in TIE SUN. the points he raised
had 20 do solely with line men running from
their positions in the line. They had nothing
20 do with line men dropping back. Penn
s~ylvania would not have been foolish enough
10 try to get by with any such play a. run
ming a line man from back Of the line, except
from Ave yards. se allowed. Yost doubt
less is sincere in c~ontending that he cannot.
as the rules are worded. and whether OF not
,he phraseology OF the code upholds him 1t
~ safe TO say that such a construction never
entered the heads of q majority OF football
followers. Coach Torrey Of Pennsylvania
says he never heard OF the play being dues-
toned before.
The play Is neither a guards back nor q
tackles back" says Torrey; because the
linemen remain in their position until the
ball is put in PLAY. After the ball Ia snapped
a man may play where he pleases and not
be offside. Every man IS in his place when
the ball is snapped back, and as long as. a
man merely runs, from his position, az in
is a PLAY that has been used by every college
IN the East This season and was used by loet
himself until a. z icy tSen W y pi sEo nsed G In bSt5
the Lafayette and Swarthmore games. Dur
ing his visits we talked over various matters
s ana u qe ssme 10 set an agrqem eTro on ali Of tihenme'
hut nothing ever was said about THIS point
Ygn o.T II S1S 9ft tbe p Iay I TfIadI out %rsA AS the play
"a considered perfectly legal all through the
Last VIC naturally refused to listen to Host's
proposal.
There vas a marked difference between
ton game and the .Harvard-fale game:
Messrs. Rockwell and Roper. coaches of
chickering's. But for the Harvard Yale
offcials there have been proposals and counter
pro osals and meeting after meeting. Har-
yard, according 20 accounts, even went so
Jar as TO declare. thar Yale had TO come to
game That would have been a fine stand
for harvard to "a ke when thousands Of dollars
had been, spent, for seats Tor the game and
trouble. The squabhle over the matter does
Cr.dt to two pugillsts Wrangllns over q
il was thought for some time that Mike
Thompson Of Georgetown would be the
TTeieTtes for The sa me 70 tbs he mp Tsts went ,o up to
IT~arvard~Clrlislt game, but was shunted
oil on the umpire lob. He made his reputa-
- - g. n~A IL avn nAnAA1aA 20
be one OF the best, The Minneapolis Tribune
says OF his work last Saturday. The game
west Thompson Was with the ball on every
play. and Minnesota has no objection what
evey TO make 70 any DECISIONS Of that official"
Ings took the form Of, proposal from Yale
that Evarts wrenp Of Harvard be one OF the
umpires Harvard Thought a Harvard man
Ia trying not to favor his own university
might uneonsclously lean the other way.
Mem 9Pf IliT pTovtded Il Sharpe. the Old Yale 6sIf.
Something that the Yale folks wanted time
weishty at Harvard that the whole athletic
committee was concerned in its adjustment.
dow Of the Charles River into Boston HarbOr
will go on again snd the business of the nation
be resumed.
Says the Princeton Atumni Weekly
That play-ths iorNsrd paSsEorginally pro
trst down LEGISLATION and OF opening IN the game.
" a. So hedged about with exceptions that. as the
long chances 10 Incorporating II as an important
part Of It's attack. one lesson the rules ommitte
the forward pass should be freed OF restrictions
THAT Leave Us legal execution too much in the dis
The opslde klcL. which was not so much restricted
r. tsS e c S56.r cosc S %sS ,1 gSfd 20 geo SdySn.sse
and developed II as a fundamental part Of the Yale
toward pass in early games. Princstoa had maid
less sttentOn to the onsde kick. and II was not a
factor IN thc homo t"am's plays for advancing the
The consensus OF opinion among Princeton
ihat the new rules have too many good features
10 be abandoned, but that II no score games are
most OF the present restrictions must he removed
from the furUard pass, and officials should not be
technical Violations OF the rules. such severe and
numerous penalties put the game too much into
ore . rc!als, cannot escape the fact that they are
human No doubt Il was The increased power
their increased duties, that made the or ciatlng
Of the gentltmsn pSrtoTmIas '5ose functions on
factory.
Football critics who have had a chance to
see the FoTdham eleven play this year be
lieve u is one of the best lightweight tennis in
sgoinst the heavy Vnlapovs. team indicates
that the game 20 be PLAYED against Holy
DAY viii be a hummer. Holy Cross scored
on Cornell, played a cracking game against
y ale and IN OfhPr ways has proved that its
team is up 20 the standard which prevails AZ
the New England college. Should Fordham
win from holy Cross II would give tho New
Workers a higher rating rhsn they have had
in recent years. and they are anxious 20 estab-
lish their sta ndlng in the football world in the
FRS season of the new rules.
The Fordham pIayers yesterday had a long
and hard practice, The second eleven lined
M against the varsity for rvo fifteen minute
halves. Siren gthened by the presence OF
orion and Casey, the scrubs PLAYED Strenu-
Gus football. The coaches have decided TO
make the varsity work especially hard, and
with this end in view are selecting a practice
eleven made up OF the fastest men from the
scrubs and the. crack prep team, orion
broke through the varsity line several times
for good gains, once making twenty Yards
on a trick plav The varsity scored twice
M each half. once 10y recovering a long punt
Of CoNeys which had been ruufed. GOOD
work by the second teams backh field and tho
line plunges OF Nctabe brought tho ball TO
the varsity 5 yard line, which was the
nearest ~" second team came TO scoring
The varsity line was weakened nv the All |,
scnce Of Fitzpatrick, whose work at guard
tg almost indispensable. Fuzpatrirk- con
ditiOn is causing the CoaChes some anxiety
His leg, injured in the HOLY Cross galns. has
Not recovered enough 10 Warrant his an
pearance against Villa Nova The guard
however. insisted On getting into tho pIgv
Fresh bruises have made II impossible for
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