The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

Just a cool day, with a tinge of
fall, just a few dead leaves
that's all it needs here to start
the talk on foot ball, and that's
what happened last week.
Since last December, when the
antemortem statement for the
season of 1910 was written, foot
ball has been tabooed. Then re-
Gently, on a hot day, Yost, old
Hurry Up" came to town. He
opened enough to admit that the
new rules suited him. All he ask
ed was men to play them.
Then came the cool day; a few
leaves dropped, and presto! the
country is again talking foot ball
and Fielding H. has come into his
own.
Yost says the rules are all
right, and his fntimates believe
they could not have suited him
better had he ordered them. The
Jealous ones say they were made
to order for the foot ball wizard.
AS a matter of fact, the rules
make less difference to Michigan
than to a majority of the big var
sity teams. For instance, the rule
that a player may be removed in
one quarter and return to the
game in another quarter; every
one who knows foot ball knows
that Michigan men, under Yost
and Fitzpatrick, were seldom re-
moved because of injury. They
were so thoroughly conditioned
that they were able to go through
grueling contests unhurt. SO
this rule will not appeal to
Michigan as it does to teams which
use two or three elevens in a
game.
New foot ball will be a game of
strategy, and that's where Yost
shines. The wizard is expected to
make more out of the rules than
the rest of them.
Last fall Yost told his players
that the new game contained much
to learn. This was last fall, and
since then the rule thinkers have
ripped the game to smithereens-
they have experimental. But their
experiments have brought them
pretty close to the Yost brand.
THE quarterback is a dead one
now" the fans declare.
Didn't Yost subordinate the
quarterback last year? The first
play Michigan mastered last sea-
son was the direct pass to full
back for an end run. The play
was effective all season. Yost de-
mands speed. He always has.
That's where he gets the name
Hurry Up" He has never had
enough to satisfy him. The elm
ination of the double pass means
more speed.
The new game will be one in
which the trick plays will play an
important role. Watch Michigan.
Since the death of the old hit-'em-
in-the-mouth game Michigan has
used a basketful of trick plays.
triple forward pass
against Penn shows the brand of
stuff Yost works out of the rules.
This play was tried in 1907 and
Michigan lost. Michigan was also
defeated in 1908. After the 1901
game Mike Murphy said, They
tried to play basket ball and we
beat them at foot ball." 1t was a |
sneer every Michigan man felt. In
1908 Penn defeated Michigan with
Yost's own tactics. Murphy taught
his men the forward pass and they
won, call 1t foot ball or basket
ball. 1t proved Yost's way right.
Last year Michigan made twol
touchdowns against Penn on freak
plays. One was delayed pass,
the other forward pas. Penn
didn't score. Since the introduce
ton Of the forward pass, Michigan
foot ball has been full of trickery.
Last year Michigan made twol
touchdowns against Penn~on freak
plays. One was a delayed pass,
the other a forward~pass. Penn
didn't score. Since the introduce
ton Of the forward pass, Michi-'
gan foot ball has been full of
trickery.
The prohibition of the diving