Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-08
EPOCH MAKING
IS COAST GAME
Football Of Jordan and Wheeler
May RevOIutionize Amer
lean Sport.
TEAMS ARE NOW AT WORK
Eyes of Eastern College World VIZ
Turn Westward To Watch the Out
come Of Interesting Experiment.

Perhaps football in America will no.
where be SO interesting this fall as oh
the Pacific coast. where Berkeley and
Stanford will fight tn introduce tn,
Rugby game as it exists today in Eng.
land. The move is backed by TIVE
strong men In the academic world
Jordan and Wheeler. Their reCommeh.
dalton Was first accepted with storm
Of protest then with milder protest
and now IS cheerfully accepted as
good experiment. II Il should prove
successful the entire country may hi
looked 10 as candidates TO fail into line
one OF the features Of the adoption OF
the English Rugby game by Stanford
and California, Is the fact that Jamei
r. flanagan, who has coached stanford
FOR the last three years and has de.
yeloped into one Of the best football
coaches IN the country, has given the
English game trial and has declared
himself for IL. When IL was decided
that the game for the ball OF 1906 wa,
TO be a new one, Mr. flanagan had
been secured as a coach for football
and baseball for the mex, three years
He az once realized that ne was a nov.
Ice al this English game and placed hii
resignation with the Stanford student
body, But the loyalty Of flanagan wal
SO great and the confidence 50 strong In
his ability TO coach any kind OF gam,
and instill adequate college spirit, thai
his resignation vas refused without de.
bate.
HAS REMARKABLE SUCCESS.
flanagan then began to prepare him.
self 10 coach the new game Just as b.
did the old for il should be mentioned
that flanagan. although a thorough
athlete. was never a varsity football
player. He made himself a successful
teacher OF the game by a long and un.
renting study Of Us every detail. He
went east and watched the work of
some OF the best coaches and mad this
benefit Of the advice OF Billie Reed
the famous Harvard coach and athlete.
LAnagan's success was remarkabv
and he has never coached losing
varsity football team He Is nov de.
claring strongly Tor the English Rug
BY and the Berkeley football PLAYERS
and enthusiasts are beginning TO show
interest in his work. FOR flanagan he's
lately been Ia British Columbia watch.
ing crack teams and expert coaches in
the so-called new game that is In resn.
ty, however much older than the old.
ABOUT BERKELEY COACH.
The man who will guide the sturdy
players Of the Blue ana Gold standard
IN their gridiron trials, is oscar n,
Taylor, who is a graduate OF the Uni.
Yersity OF California and has spent IN,
past three months IN England. watchins
the game as played In the colleges and
schools. lie has come back with his
plans pretty well formed for the Eng.
hsh game He has even entered and
played Il himself IN order to know
what II IL from the standpoint OF IN.
participant He said recently.
Inc American game Is played By II
men and the English by Is The phys.
lque required Is tho same for both
games, except that there IS hardly
place IN the English game FOR the biz
tat man He. indeed. has had his day
IN the American game. too. for any
coach would prefer the sleek. 100 pound
muscular man 10 the 22O-pound man
VINO merely carries much useless EXTRA
weight II the 200-pounder. however
should be six feet four inches tall ana
an muscle. ne would be invaluable 10
either kind Of game, The English eams
has places FOR several light. speedy ans
heady players. while such men would
have a hard time making good in m,
American game.
GAME ENCOURAGES MEN.
The increased number Of PLAYERS in
the English game also encourages NOR
men TO come out and try for the team,
The English ALLOW no substitutes h,1,
the California Stanford rules allow
three substitutes and a total of fivs r,an
on the side lines. allowing the captain
some range IN the choice Of his men
But ne can use only three OF the ave"