Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
Track Men Now
in Foot Ball Toys
Fast Runners Come Into Their Own
Through the New
Rules.

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-The revolution in
the rules Of foot ball has brought about a
very interesting kink in college athletics
and for the first time in years the stars of
the gridiron squad can no longer look down
upon the members of the track squad as
subsidiary heroes. In fact, the track men
are the athletes who must be depended
upon to carry the ball across the goal.
The trouble started the minute the rules
committee decided that locked interference
was a thing of the past and that pushing
or pulling would be no longer permitted.
The first team to feel this change ad-
'ersely was Yale, and at the same time
Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard began
to profit by It.. In all OF the colleges a
distress call has gone out to the track
teams to come TO the rescue. In Princeton
Pendleton is a track man and Is as fast as
lightning. He is. therefore, the star OF the
Tigers for the coming season.
In Pennsylvania Ramsdell was yanked
from the sprinting class and to him the
team will look for speed. At Dartmouth
Lovejoy, who can run 100 yards in consid-
erably less than eleven seconds. IS tearing
things up. At Harvard the two fast men
are Corbett and Leslie and their speed has
counted for much in the season. which is
yet young. At Dartmouth, Harry Hillman
the trainer, who knows a runner the min
ute he lays eyes on him, has gone into
the track team and dug up the men who
will show as sprinters on the gridiron- He
Is helping TO train the entire squad on the
lines usually adopted for developing run
ners
The fastest man on the Yale team is said
to be fitzpatrick. Unless some OF the
I h.
have TO do the ball carrying for the greater
part of the time.
The new rule which prevents interfer-
ence hit Yale the hardest because there are
experts at New Haven who have spent
| years devising means OF protecting a run
ner In going around the end OF through the
lines. The system has been so perfectly
developed and the experts have worked so
/ long with that one object in view that the
minute the change occurred they were lost
/ They must now work TO undo what they
have built up for the last decade. No mat
ter how strong and heavy a line plunger
may be, he will find il almost impossible
to plunge through a hole In the opposing
/ line unless there Is somebody to go ahead
or behind him and check off the opposing
| tacklers They can go around an end
without locked interference, but the man
who takes the ball must be exceptionally
fast
The same thing is true OF the man who
catches the forward pass. IL was formerly
the intent OF all coaches 20 secure a COM
binauon of speed and strength for the
backs and ends Now they must find men
who have powerful speed regardless OF
whether they have the bulk or not In
other words speed is OF more value than
strength, and everything must be sacri-
feed for speed. Il Is a natural conse-
quence that the track teams must be
looked 70 for the athletes With speed.
Up at Harvard they ate OF the impress
sion that nobody can beat them. They
realize that Princeton has a team OF ex-
eepuonal speed, but so long as the Grim
son does not have to play the Tiger that
makes little difference. A Harvard alum
nus who was formerly a member OF the
Z Crimson team said last night that he ex-
pected Yale TO 10 beaten by both Prince
ton and Harvard.
The necessity OF speed In preference Il
weight and strength is certain to breaA
down the prestige Of the famous Big -Four