The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-31

holding him upon his feet, and by united work, moving that mass stead fly onward for sometimes many yards before the play could be broken up, by the defense. It Is no wonder that with the elimination of this the team play of 1910 seemed crude, and it will be season or two yet before the new form of team play can reach any per lection that will really satisfy the old player for the loss of this type of united efforts.
 There were some indications of the different kind of teamwork portrayed in the teams of the attacking side last season, and this form will be more marked as experience aids coach es and captains in the development. The teamwork of 1911 will show still gre3ter progress along the line of de- cepfive movements tending to put the defense in an awkward position for meeting what will be the ultimate opening Or the play.
 Minnesota in the west had the start on these plays through having used that character of attacks previous to the introduction of the rules of 1910; Brown in the east, through having begun very early in the season on plays of this character, acquired bet ter perfection in the execution of them than any of the teams in her section. DSINH ltlO SCdxoOll W dS SlFQCO, llONON- CT many teams had turned to this method, and the plays of former years, which lend themselves most readily to such alterations were revamped and brought in.
 Every ones recalled, however. that with this additional and different work which must be performed by the play CTS there was decided compensation in the fact that the heavy impact of massed plays had been eliminated. The spectators saw more of the game and could much better iStinguish which player had the ball, and finally although injuries in the open were as numerous. as ever, those which came from pulling up an extraordinary pressure of several men against one were greatly reduced.
 As far as individual work is con- ceaTbed the abolition of the the flying tackle hurt temporarily the spectacu- lar work of brilliant ends, but for the most part the players Of this po- sition learned to get nearer the run ner before attempting to tackle, and thus slowing up they were less likely to overrun their man or to miss him. It was hard to learn, and for the man who was really a brilliant flying tacklers it seemed like changing from a very skillful method to one much more, crude. But still, for all that, CiIOiO WClC NOl 1SW llISlcIICCS CO W dl U the latter part of the season where the ends were rendered very much less effective by the new ruling.
 There was one element which was not sufficiently, appreciated early in the season, and that was that the work of the backfields, if they were given too much hard pounding in the attack, suffered correspOndingly in defense, because the men were not fresh enough to be "on their toeS'' and ready for the unexpected.
 It was quite noticeable that the backfelds in most teams were weaker in defense in the second half, and a fresh man substituted in the fourth period showed by the contrast how much the work(of the three previous quarters had played upon the speed of the man who bore the brunt of the attack during those periods One of the new problems therefore will be how to conserve the energies of the four men upon whom almost solely comes the strain of carrying the ball, for it is these very men that must provide the quick and active defense necessary in these days of forward passing, onside kicks and shifting of the runs.
 The onside kick under the new rul- ing that 1t must go 20 yards has been rendered much less effective as a standard play
 The successful forward passes of 1910 were those which took as great distance es was safe on this 20-yard zone, rather than the quick tossing which some had hoped would come into the game. Whether this quick, short pass will develop to be very dangerous is a question which the season of 1911 must answer
 By scharacterizing a play as one that looks simple from the side lines rather than is simple, I mean to say