The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19
A HARD SCHEDULE.
Gophers Will Open Siren
uous Season With
Ames College.

Minneapolis. Oct. la.-With the
opening OF the football season but a
few days of. secret practice is the
order of the day 1T Northrup field.
October q marks the debut OF Min
nesota's team in the field of football
shorn OF brutality, the game being
with the husky Ames college war
riors. This game will be followed
by the stiffest schedule ever prepared
for the Gopher team. Nebraska como;
on Nov. 8, Chicago, Nov 10, on Mar
shall field at Chicago; Carlisle In
dians on Northrup field Nov IL and
the Indiana university also at North
rup field Nov. "a.
Considering the uncertainty OF the
new rules. and the disadvantages
heaped upon Minnesota, the number
of critical games to be played is the
largest ever attempted by any OF the
big nine" schools.
The success looked for by the Co
pher followers depends. just now up
Oh the ability OF certain OF the stars
to work off certain conditions in their
studies. Much depends upon the out
come as it will determine whether
Minnesota is to have one of the best
teams in her football history. or
whether it will be a nonentity in the
division of football honors.
The discussion OF the new rules
is now at its height. There are some
critical coaches who declare that
they are farce and have not opened
up the game or lessened the injuries.
But the reformers, on the other hand,
are loud in their praises OF the re-
vised code. AS matter OF fact, it
is still too early to judge the worth or
worthlessness Of the new rules. How
they will work when two teams of
equal strength line up against eacn
other is totally different from the
way they have been working in the
preliminary games in which strong
teams have opposed the weak.
The forward pass is quite easy to
operate against minor eleven which
has not been versed in its workings.
But it will be found before the season
is much older that this play cannot
work SO easily against a team of
equal skill and speed 1t is most in
teresting to note, in this connection,
how the different members of the
Big Five" regard the new rules and
their possibilities. AS was predicted,
Yale has taken the iniative in employ
ing the formations made possible by
the new code, and the work OF the
Ellis has been both revelation and an
object lesson to other teams.
Yale has emphasized first of all
speed and accuracy in handling the
bail. Coach Rockwell and his assist
ants have applied the hurry up
theory OF Coach Yost, of Michigan
In every game the Elias have been on
the jump every minute. Failure to
make accurate passes and handle the
ball clearly have been regarded as
serious defects which had to be over
come before a man could secure a
position.
And on this point other teams will
do we'll to follow the example of Yale.
The Ellis have evidently made a close
study OF the manner in which Cana
dams have operated the quick and
long passes, for their style is rad
ically different from that taught and
pursued by the other members of the
big Five" For instance, the Yale
quarterback, or other man who pas
ses the ball, does it with one hand
and not with two, as in basket ball.
The ball is grasped securely at the
end, and ii the second hand is uesd
at all it is merely to guide the pass.
In this way Yale is able to make a
much quicker and far more accurate
throw than when the ball is passed
with both hands, as at Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Cornell and Harvard> The
Yale way is the Canadian way and the
right way. And before the season is
over the other big college teams of
the country will have to come to this.
Ii they don't they will have trouble
to operate the forward pass and the
long pass.
OF the big Eastern teams there is
just one which seems to ignore the
plays possible under the new rules.
This is the University of Pennsylvania
The Quakers experimental with the
forward pass for weeks, but if their
style OF play in the Franklyn and
Marshall game may be taken as d
guide, they now have very little use
for. it, Their experience has been
that the ball is usually lost with this
play and that the few times it does
succeed in gaining ground are not
worth the risk that is run.
The Quakers have caused not little
excitement by their evident determine
ton to play the old style of football.
At the beginning of the season most
coaches seemed to think that the ten
yard rule made 1t incumbent on them
to develop a totally different style
OF defense. But the Quakers have
noted that all the other big teams
are weakening their defense to provide
for the forward pass and other new
plays. Consequently, taking advan-
tage of this weakening of the defense
the Quakers have decided that the
handicap after all. In the Franklin
and Marshall game on Wednesday the
Quakers used Draper at tackle and
Zfegler at guard in their attacks al
most constantly. Those men, of
course, could not be brought back Of
the line, but in this game they seemed
to advance the ball from their posi-
ton quite as easily as they could have
done under the old rules. The month
of November will prove the worth or
uselessness of the new rules.-E X.
Bushnell.
HOW PLAYER IS FOUND.