The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-19
Football
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Mass. Aggies. Centre. Cutter
Michigan ........ Tackle. ....... Curtis
MMii ssn,sl|pp .,-..T B.....,, ;Huggins
oberlin ........ Tackle. ........ Waters
PENNSYLVANIA III B. Greene
' springfieid iaek'e' Dillon
Training School Centre. ........ wrigh,
Tufts .ni,:.s;;,: Tackle. Reynolds
G.ah :::::::::::E B:.:.:.: fissn
West Point. $500. H. Hill
Wisconsin 900. Tackle. ...... .Gelbach
Yale H. B............ Morse
Within few weeks the heroes Of
the baseball world will have to give
way TO new band of warriors-that
of the college football players. Sep
TENDER always marks the exit of the
one and the entry of the other.
Not the least interesting feature OF
the season will be the schedule itself.
For the first time in several years two
OF the strongest teams of either Sec
ton will meet in intersectional games.
On Nov. II the university of Pennsyl-
vania, which has divided honors with
Yale for the Eastern championship.
will meet the great Michigan eleven on
teams are to be very strong, the re-
suit will go far toward settling the
merits of football in the two sections.
On the same day the Indians will play
Minnesota in Minneapolis. This has
been essentially a year of new foot
ball alliances. Penn and Harvard have
broken in the East, Columbia has
given up the game altogether, while in
cOnsin have broken OFF football rela-
tons for the present at least. But
all these things add to rather than
take from the interest in football.
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. A consistent distance punter
| promises to be about the most valu-
| able man on the team, and he who can
| outkick all his rivals is virtually sure
of his place on the team, even if he
be inferior in other respects. To
make certain that this sort of game
would be properly developed, the lead
ing institutions last spring held
special punting contests for their
players, and many of the men were
instructed to take footballs home with
them on their summer vacations and
there to practice punting and drop
kicking.
The real reason for emphasizing the
kicking game is not that good kicking
lis to be rewarded any more than it
ever was. 1t is merely because the
new rule requiring the ball to be ad-
vanced ten yards in three downs will
so frequently put team in such a
plight that a team will be required to
kick much oftener, and long puntine
will mean more than it ever did.
But the poor supply of kickers is
not due to the fact that good kickers
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, we may expect to see a host
of good kickers turned out in all the
colleges. Furthermore, the rise in
the standard Of punting will be fol-
lowed by similar rise in the stan
dard of drop kicking. Both of these
changes will be most welcome to the
! followers of the game.
An unusual amount of interest is
being displayed by coaches to learn
what style of game other coaches are
thinking of employing under the new
rules. 1t is safe to say that because
of the radical changes there will be
more new plays and formations sprung
this fall than in the entire previous
history of the game. The new rules
will make it absolutely necessary for
the coaches to use their inventive
ability, and good many of them have
been laboring over new plays for a
good part of their summer vacations.
Naturally, good many of the new
plays will have to be discarded as
useless, for their availability can not
be properly tested except in a real
game.
=. A peculiar formation that will be
used at one of the state universities
this season was defined by the coach
I yesterday. In this formation there
will be ten men on the line of scrim-
mage, the only one behind it being the
quarterback. 1t can be seen at
glance that this play is intended as a
trick and is capable of more varia-
tions than the famous wing shift, used
to such good advantage by the Car
Isle Indians. The play is capable of
a great many tricks, noted, however.
that this formation was just as feasible
under the old rules as under the new.
Under the old rules coaches apparent
ly did not think it necessary to use
their ingenuity. Now they are apply
ing all their ability to the new rules,
and as a result there ought to be much
real progress made in the matter of
new and original plays.
Almost by common agreement
coaches everywhere are looking for
small scores this year. The new 10
yard rule will cut down the scoring
ability of team nearly one-half This
is not theory, but has been demon
strated in games played under the
1O-yard rule. The Michigan team,
which was accustomed to roll up
scores of 100 points and more in a
single game and more tnan 500 in a
single season, will not repeat these
performances. Yost's men must now
content themselves with small scores
and If the teams are evenly matched
1t may be no score at all.
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