The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-22
FOOTBALL THIS SEASON is
MORE OPEN GAME THAN EVER
Forward Pass and End Runs and Strategic Plays
Will Win Touch-downs, and Not Batteria6
Ram Form ations---W Of the Teams.

bulk in the line will be OF value In
defensive work
Llne-buclsing by heavy mass playa
has been almost wholly eliminated. X
team that depends upon hammerina
the opposing line cannot win In 1907
over an antagonist at all Formidable
Quickness. alertness in thinking, plans
ming and moving are the characteris-
tics OF the game. The element Of
roughness is now almost wholly limited
to hard tackllng In tho open, when q.
sprintlnG back Is nailed by a crouch-
ing or leaping tackler and thrown.
That Is where collarbones may crunch
and a rib crack. and where occasionally
runner may be thrown so hard as to-
injure his skull. But mass plays and
battering-ram tandem formations are
things OF the past. The forward pass,
the spectacular feature of last season,
will be the most conspicuous play OF
1907, and now that the penalty, which,
was almost prohibitory upon attempt
Ing 1t last year, has been removed, 1t
will be oftener tried and more accuracy
and skill demonstrated in It's use. With
a mere distance penalty now, any team
may try the pass. and IL 1t fail a punt
may be resorted to- The quick-think-
ing, alert player. who Is watchful fot
every opportunity and swift to seizs
1t, will be the star. Fleet running and
clever lodging will be at premium.
and strategy will be the decisive fac
! tor in many even battle of we'll
trained and finely coached teams.
Outlook at Georgetown.
Georgetown has added one of tho
hest football players ever developed in
| the District to its list of candidates.
The player Is Thompson, who played
quarterback for the Army and Navy
Preparatory School few years ago.
The candidates for the eleven have
reported to Coach Reilly, on George
town Field. Only four old men
| Stuart, Bocock. Morton and Hodgson-
will be missing this season. Bocock.
Stuart and Morton graduated last
June, and Hodgson has entered v.
iP. I.
Eddie Duggan, who Reilly thought
would fill the quarterback position
this year. will not enter Georgetown.
There will be three candidates for tii<
| Observation-Disclosures. Devine and
Cohen. Both Devine and Cohen are
track men and are very fast.
Following is Georgetown's schedule
| for the season:
October 5-Gallaudet. at Georges
town.
October 12-cathoIic University. at
Georgetown.
October 1a-Bal,imore Medical. as
/ Georgetown.
October 26-Fordham. at New York.
+. November 2-V, p. l.. at Richmond.
November 9-North Carolina. at
IGeorgetown.
November 1s-virginia. at George.
4 town.
November 2s-George Washington.
at Georgetown.
Army and Navy Teams.
/ Football practice began at the Naval
i Academy Saturday. most OF the men,
hers of the team having forfeited
A week of their leave to start In at that
4 time.
4 sllngluff Wright, Northcroft. Leigh
A ton. Lange and Mccormick, of last
YEARS squad, who are members of the
4 second class. are now in Annapolis.
and several likely men have come n
4 with the new fourth class. Spencer.
i A. Newman. brother of the captain of
Hast years eleven, may take his broth
! ,er's place at half-hack
i The practice will probably be under
lsGates. field coach last year, will re-
4 turn Monday.
West Points football season officially
Ibegau last week. with Captain II, O..
i Smlther, Fifteenth United States Cav
4 Hairy, as head coach. Captain Smither
u played quarterback on the army team
Il In 1876, dlu WIS
last year. but was ordered to another
part after he had been with the team
i for two weeks. His assistants this
h year will be Fob Forbes and Lieuteh-.
ant C. II. Thompson. Thirteenth lnfan-
iItry, who is on his way from the Philip
n pines, and who played at right guard
4 on the 1904 team. Captain Smtther ia
4 confident Of successful team this
4 year, for of last years men only three
A sultan. centrs; Captain Hill. half
A back, and Christy, guard--weres gradu-l
Il ated and In the new fourth class there
His much good material for fllltng these
vacancies.
4 "Jimmy'' Johnson, the famous Car
'Ilisle quarterback. will he Glen Warmers
Heading assistant this season In coach
ling the Indian team, Bill Newman.
4 Cornell's big centre of last falls team,
4 will be second assistant. Carlisle has
4 a hard schedule this year. They play
Harvard at Cambridge. November 9th;
Minnesota ut Minneapolis, November
18th, and Chicago at Chicago, Snven,-.
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