The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
TRACK MEN ARE NOW
IN FOOTBALL T0Gs
Fast Runners Come Into Their
Own Through the New
Rules.

NEW YORK. Nov. 12.-The revolution
in the rules OF football has brought about
a very interesting klnk in college ath-
letics and for the first time in years the
stars of the gridiron squad can no longer
look down upon the members of tho
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 thing OF the
past and that pushing or pulling would
be no longer permitted,
The first team TO feel this change ad-
Princeton. Dartmouth and Harvard be-
gan TO profit by II. In all OF the colleges
q distress call has gone out to the track
teams 10 come 10 The rescue. In Prince
ton, Pcndleton is track man and is as
fast as lightning. He is, therefore. the
star OF the Tigers for the coming sea-
son.
In Pennsylvania. Ramsdell was yanked
from The Sprintng class and TO him the
team will look for speed. At Dartmouth
Lovejoy who can run 100 yards In con
siderabiy less than eleven seconds is
tearing things up. AT Harvard. the twc
fast men arc Corbett and Leslie, and
their speed has counted for much In the
season which is yet young. AT Dart
mouth, Harry Hillman, the trainer, VINO
knows runner the minute he lays eyes
dug up the men who will show as sprint
ers on the gridirou. He Is helping TO train
the entire squad on the lines usually
adopted for developing runners. !,
The fastest man on the fale Team IL
said to be Fitzpatrick. Unless some OF ths
youngsters develop very rapidly, ne VII
have to do the ball carrying for the
greater part OF the time.
The new rule which prevents interfer-
cnce hit Yale the hardest, because there
are experts at New Haven who have spent
years devising means of protecting run
ner In going around the end or through
the lines The system has been so per-
fectiy developed and the experts nave
worked so long with that one object IN
view that the minute the change occurred
they were lost. They must now work &c
undo what they have built UP for the
last decade. No matter how strong and
heavy a line plunger may be. he VIII
find it almost impossible TO plunge
through hole in the opposing line un-
less there is someb body TO go ahead oi
behind him and check of the opposing
tackers. 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 TO se. sc, !,
cure q combination of speed and strength
for the backs an dends. Now they must
fnd men who havS powerful speed re-
gardless OF whether they have the bulk
or not. In other words. speed is OF more
value than strength and everything must
be sacrificed for speed. II is a natural
consequence that the track teams must be
looked 10 for the athletes with. speed.
Up at Harvard they are of the i'm
preston that nobody can beat them.
They realize that Princeton has a team
of exceptional speed but so long as the
Crimson does not have TO play the Tiger
that makes little difference, A Harvard
alumnus who was formerly q member OF
the Crimson team said last night that he
expected Yale TO be beaten by both
Princeton and Harvard.
The necessity OF speed In preference 10
weight and strength is certain TO break
down the prestige of the famous Big
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