The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-11-23
IN FOOTBALL
New System Of Coaching Gives
Many Players Chance.
Old Machine Gives Place 20 squad
Capable o. Experimental shifts IN
Course Of oane-Eleven 10
Made More Plastic.

Football coachlug has undergone rs
radical a change In the last few years
us has the game Itself and nothing
,Aomplincs this so much M the meth
DDS M vogue In the middle west
There is less change In tie east. tor
Cus tern c'ov,us dte 60 hodr'd about
with their traditions and coaching
tygtcwB" that reform IL hard 70 ac'
Compllsh with the big teams OF the
district. and as the smaller schools
ns u general rule. follow the example
Of the larger the change Is loss an
parent than IN the District known TO
western followers OF the game rs the
conference district
The conference district docs not
Nom the conference Itself. lui the
territory Influenced by that BODY
which ma. np summed up as thc
fiatps OF Illinois. Indiana Wisconsin
Michigan. Nuuc.o'a. iowa Missouri
and Nebraska SCHOOLS OF the Mis-
.ouri valley conference, follow the "a
ample so' hg the older aud moro 20"
,rul Dix eight" WIFI" most nf the
minor schools In that territory toll
low me larger
In no school o. the chang. ln coach
lnE moro apparent than boo an Inst
tuition mo- longer wtwb"IoI nronE
me conference The CHARGE in NicNi
aan's coaching has been thorough ard
tro work 81 Np.t rlorr no the inst
TOW yoors l0s nyon about as dIforcn'
from that used previous TO 1909 as
n.gh' Is from day
Thu, the change rs for the batter IS
shown hy rho increase on strength
Of the Wolverine teams toward the
close NJ The season and the bringing
out Of stars Even lu the palmtost
days ~ Nlcnlrau's steam roller Nost
rover was 9blo 10 ret moro than one
mon on an AllNmoriC0u football
eleven In any ouc year Last season
Yost had two men. RoUbrcoh and
Wc'a neither Of whom would have
bad much bp'tor then an outside
chance ~ mnh.ug the an star team
urdor ne o'd rys'om OF coaching
90 the year. when beef ana Drawn
constituted tho greatest qualification.
for q player the Michigan eleven often
was formed after The rr.t ar second
game OF the season and there was
little chance for q man who lad not
secured o place up 10 that time 10
get into any OF NJ" later games un'c s.
ono ~ tho regulars was b"nchod by
injury Everything WAS concentrated
upon eleven men and the whole WORK
was bringing these mon 20 working a.
a unit Little account was taken OF
substitute and. as q .cguonce. the
team obliged 10 put In fresh men ~
any ,tpro II the game luborcd under
q disadvantage rather than m adyan
tHge
From the start o. the season tho
cry was score. score and Nost
earned Ito aUpcllation ~ Hurry Up
In those days by his ability 20 Keen
his men running up and down The
field against opponents often pIlirg
up SCORES Of % hundred or more point,
against hi3 early season opponents
Indeed the ,fv FOR big scores wIs
such that % Michigan team which fHli
cd 20 score more than my point,
agalna, o., early season opponents
was counted q failure This WAS no.
confined TO Michigan by any mean
for an schools in the conference %.
that time we're score mad but iOs
seemed 10 possess tire faculty. OF 90
ting higher scores against his oru'
neuts than did any Of his rival met
tors In the b'r nine