Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-28

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has not the best IN the world. The game
to which the most interest attaches is. Of
course. that with Pennsylvania. The eyes
Of all the foot bail world are on that game
and the Pennsylvania rooters fear the
plants Of Yost are not on the level.
Pennsylvania is without a good quarter
back. An idea Of the Importance the east
attaches to that game may be CLEANED
from what a Pennsylvania Correspondent
writes concerning the game: Everything
is now being centered on the Michigan
game, which IL TO be played here on No
vember II. The ouakers realize that not
only must they uphold their own reputa-
tiOn against the westerners. but that they
must represent eastern foot bali against
the western brand Everything else will
be subordinated to this one contest, and Il
Will certainly bring together two OF the
strongest teams from the two sections.
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Despite the strenuous foot ball that has
been in vogue at the Tiger camp at Doane
little real progress has been made. Since
the Peru game more attention has been de-
voted TO the kicking department. Doane
took bunch TO Peru last Saturday well
drilled in open field tactics. At most when
the team was making Its most consistent
otNdNh Ahe EuhuluE game ldheQ 10 CONeE
more than twenty-five to thirty-five yards.
'"rhe painting game is the game" says
Coach Fuhrer. So this weeks work has
been devoted to the handling Of punts and
getting down the field under kicks. The
scrimmage practice has been ragged, the
wet weather has forced the squad to play
on the turf ON the downhill part Of the
campus. which has made fast work impos-
sible The end positions are the weak spots
In the Doane line. Hall and Bates have
both received back bruises which may keep
them out Of the game for week or more.
Hartwell, speedy man, has been given a
trial at the left wing. while Gray and
Hooper have been working at the right
wing position, The training table is now
in full swing and fourteen have been sent
to partahe Of the new repast. c. b. Perry,
the 'O5 end, has been out helping coach
the scrubs and the varsity ends.
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w. A. Plxiey, one Of the recognized au-
thorities Of the west on foot ball. who has
oflciated in most of the important games
played in the west In late years, says he
is much impressed with the changes in
the rules, as 1t is a move in the right direc-
ton to make the game more open. Two
features are apparent under the new rules"
many candidates that report for a trial for
the team one man must be found who can
be developed into a quick end runner A
player to make good at this position must
subject himself to a strict discipline Of
living and become a sprinter. He not only
has to be quick-sighted, but quicker still
at skirting the ends the instant the bali is
passed to him. This year the end man
finds himself doing double the amount Of
work as formerly. He is as important to
his team as a pitcher is to a base ball
nine, as he forms one-half of the battery.
The more agile, tackle type are given the
preference. The 145-pound end man Of last
year will not do. Next, but none the least
important, is the kicker, whether he be a
drop, placement or punter Never before
has there been such demand for kickers
as this season. Every member of the squad
is given daily instructions at kicking by
coach, who hopes he may discover one
available man whom he can depend upon
to boot the ball toward the desired goal.
BY so doing he completes the other half
OF the battery for his team. The Bellevue
Creighton game last Saturday showed the
new game TO be more interesting for spec
tatorg."
While the season is not far enough ad-
vanced in foot ball to give any accurate
idea Of the absolute effect OF the new
rules on the game and how far the rules
have gone in freeing the game from some
OF its rough features and evil ways It is
certain the game is OF more interest to
the spectators. In the Creighton game last
Saturday the ball was in the air most Of
the time, Bronze kicking nearly every time
on the first down. Ten yards Is a long
ways for a team to try to 80 by line buck
ing and coaches have practically given
up that style Of play for the more spec
tacular end runs and punts. Up to this
time the experts have been rather back
ward in expressing an opinion, preferring
to walt until such time as the big elevens
meet, when a fairer test will be possible.
It can be said however, that there seems
70 be a general feeling that the game has
been improved TO a marked degree and
that whatever changes are necessary In
the near future will be purely OF a tech
meal nature and have little bearing on the
| game as II now stands. Under the new
code the game is remarkably free from
that monotonous plunging and general pill
ing up OF players which encouraged
roughness and unfair tactics.
In it's place has come the more spectae-
ular and dashing open play, which makes
for the greater enjoyment Of the players
as well as the onlookers. 1t does not
seem necessary. then. to wait for the ex-
perts to express an opinion, as It Is bound
to be in favor OF the so-called new game
under the revised rules.
The new rules have found general favor.
some deserved. Undoubtedly the game is
less exhausting. The restriction Of holding
ana hurdling and the absence OF scrap
ping in the line has accomplished this. The
neutral zone is largely the cause, and can
not be too highly commended. With men
less tired there are necessarily fewer in
iuries, though the chances of injury in open
play are unquestionably greater than in
the close mass formation. But the claim
that the play will be more open IN the
sense that end plays and field runs are
more frequent is not sustained by a care
full analysis. Gains on such plays are easier
and larger against the smaller teams than
they will be later. When the opposing
teams are more evenly matched the real
test Of the ten-yard rule viii come. and
there Is nothing to show that consistent
ground gaining can then be done by any
team. The risk entsiled by the forward
pass Is too great to make Il practicable. and
| that the only relief will be the inside kick