The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-21
FOOTBAI II COACHES
ARE Up In I HE AIR
Rules This Y ca / Are
Radically Chan ed ii
Every y .; az = Possible
PENN -HA r RID
PLANS a. OPTED

Il
Squads Of the Big Five Universe.
ties Will Be Asked to Report
for Earlier Practice, SO That
Players May Learn the
Rules Before the Sea
son Begins. 81
Philadelphia, August so.-Becauss
lof the deep interest now being taken
lin the two races for major Leagues
baseball championships the athletic
world has not observed the extensive
preparations which are under way 81
the present moment for the football
season OF 1915 But there Is not II q y
Ilbig university, east or west. which
has not outlined It's plans for the fnli.H
Harvard, usually the last OF the "a Biz IA
Five to announce Its plans. has taken !
the initiative this time and made pub
lie the date on which oil the Crimson
football candidates are asked to report
for preliminary practice. Harvard's1 d
announcement will be followed shortly
by similar statements from the other
universities. and within very few
weeks the pigs kin vii be sailing
through the aid and coaches and play
ers working out q new system OF foot
ball strategy to conf form, to the new
rules. Vi d; y sSS
There is abundant reasons for the 2
unprecedented Interest taken In thes
gridiron game at all the football cen-
tres. 1t Is to be traced back to the
radical changes made IN the rules OF Il
1910. The uncertainty which now ex- "a
lists In the football world Is not unlike
THAT which existed four years ago. n
/ when the forward pass was first in-s
troduced. Now, as then. the football
world knows not what to expect. Then
the belief was current that the new u
game would be one Of radical inno-5s
vations In which the old style would
be lost altogether.
I In a measure this was borne out.
but not in the sudden manner pre-
dicted. During the four years that
followed the game gradually UNDER
went a change In which the pendu-
lum swung to the extreme OF open
4 football and then swung back to close
] formations. though the latter condt
ltion was reached by "a new route.
Now we are face to face with another
crisis, The passage OF new and rad
zeal rules makes imperative an ont trely
II new sytem OF Il play In fact, there
Twill be q more rad teal change in the
lsystem than ever be FORE 8. -Four years
Iago the old game could still he played
with some degree of success. But
not so now. The new rules do not
lend themselves to old style football
land the coaches know That is4
why they have been holding confer
ences all summer to map out their.
fall campaigns. And that also IS why
preliminary practice this fall viii
begin earlier and be more thorough
than for years sS't
Oddly enoug h. there exists an inn
preston In some parts OF the football
world that Pennsylvania and Harvard
will have an advantage over the other
Representatives had IN working out
the new rules. u; It Is no secret that
DR.. Carl lliams. of Pennsylvania,a and
Percy Haug hton, of Harvard, were the
two men who evolved the system of
play that Is to be used this year.
When the OF Their m embers OF the cons
mitteeHi itself failed to construct any
sort Of an Improved system by which
the forward pass could be / retainedss
these two alternates, neither of whom
was member OF the committee. en-
litered into consultation and devised ~
system by which this important tea
ture of the game could be- retained
And after the other members OF the
committee had capitulated TO he M
they were ed sto draft to-
disable form all the changes agreed
upon. They not onl W did this. y bu tSs
they went & over the entire book 81
rules, stmplt flying and cod III wing every
thing that needed their attention. Ssss
M It us ed to be o. p opular belief that
some Of Yale's grid iron success was
due to the leading part as35 taken by
Walter Camp and OF her9ssY ale men si Il
amending the rules. Thus 81 the crit tcaI
accounted for Y la's advanced foot
ball STRAIT egy. There Is some ground
for believing that both Harvard and
l;Pennsylvania2iscoa coaches ~ will 81 have q S3
more thorough 3und erstanding OF the
new rules and the plays they demand
and make possible than those in some;
OF the other foo bal camps "a ugh-E
ton Is the head coach at Harvard but
with the Pennsylvania coaching stat -
It should ~ be said u thong I, the ls Dr.ss
WHllian1s's advice Il SOL gh ts on q nc
football matters q a ?ennsy lvania. sOsS
that heEis quite rs powerful In Quaker
football matters gas $IIaug ton An thosssa
of Harvard. fgss' Hi
that there wi IL be an unu sual amount A
OF secret practice th IA That was
the result four years ago. The suc-5S3
cess OF the new plays EN- dependeds
upon the 81 skill and invent lon OF the Il
coaches. There was nothln Ing In the
foo tballs Of the pas to guide EN-
and their success had TO be measured
by their originality, Conseq uent lySs
most OF the big coll ege tea ms 5Wor sed NJ
behind closed gates, he same condt
tions exist now. and no teal Is like yss
to cont ibute WI ling ansf IN orma-s
SttoIls to It's rival Isl. n $S s
I8S AS n preliminary to the fall pra O.
TIDE football coaches have seen to ttS
that their candidates did a good sde ~
OF work during the summer. AZ ltar- sSSs
ward and u X ale the coaches out lined ia
icoursa B9ot work to be TO flowed BY the
cand dates during their va ca Y on, lE'e-ss
cause Sot the late date when the foot
hal rules were tinal II ~ change ed The 81
coaches were not a BILE y e hold the
usual preliminary sprtng IL pract Toe
Several OF the lniversi ties did & hold
such acticas. but mostl Sto IAN out Z
aug gestions made by tn Ruiz Cssoln
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