The Daily Missoulian., 1912-07-28
UNDER NEW RULES TACKLES
WILL HAVE HARD JOBS AND
WEIGHT is NEEDED.
PROBLEM NOW SHIFTED
Question OF offense Is Comparatively
Simple This Year and Coaching Es.
perts Are Worried About Another
Department. OF the College Sport.

New York, July 27-Young men
who have weight as well as speed VIII
be welcome at the colleges in the fall.
Under the new football rules there
will be something OF a premium on
ayoirdupois. and the coaches of the
defense are casting about for the ZOO
Founders. for IL IL generally agreed
that the tackles will have harder
work to do than last year. The lead
ing coaches took very little rest after
the close of last season, and they
have been busy working out the plans
for the coming season ever since the
playing code was changed. 1t seems
odd To talk football AT this time OF
year. and conference of coaches with
the persplratIon streaming down their
faces would be funny If IL were not
so serious
thing can be cold at the moment
many of the best coaches are serious
ly worried over the tackle proposition.
Even sashing good tackle like Jim
Scully of Yale. who played at a
weight as low as l6G pounds last year.
would be hard put to 1t To stand the
work he would have to face under the
new rules. There are plenty of
coaches right now figuring on how to
Keep putting the plays across the
tackle. and they are sanguine OF sue
cess ia the fan.
All of which means that last years
conditions are reserved and that the
problem has been swung over from
the attack to the defense. Last sum
mer the coaches were running
around the country listening to any
body and everybody who had "brain-
storm" 70 suggest, while the coach of
the defense calmly sat back and en-
joycd his vacation sure OF the theory
of his defense, ana certain that he
would be in shape to stop any and all
running plays short OF the goal line.
The fall campaigns are being
planned right now, and the masters OF
"ziggers." triple" projections and all
hand-around shifts are thoroughly
enjoying themselves. on the defense
the tackles are sorry for
for themselves and the tackles. The
rules committee certainly shook the
game to its foundations. and II IL
probable that its members will not be
SO proud Of themselves when they see
the amount Of bostering up the de-
fense Is going to need.
II is little early for the man with
the unstoppable play to be abroad
III the band, but he IL not nevehthe-
less ana the chap with the impregnable
defense has not yet turned up.
Hitherto he has come around much
earlier There Is wide difference of
opinion over the restoration OF the for
ward pass. Mel Webb, the Boston ex-
pert does not seem TO think that It
VIII have much effect and can make
out good case with the charts he
has Kept of the big games In which
the old long heave figured extensive
~ He maintains that, measured from
The line of scrimnage, the old pass
seldom II ever went any further than
the more recent restricted fling. StIll,
ihe threat Is there. and we shall be
able 10 tell more about II when the
Carlisle Indians take the field. for IL
anybody can make the long pass work
II Is the redskins, Warner used the
long pass in the old days with dead
ly effect. as Pennsylvania players can
testify.
With the longer pass II IL believed
that there is far less danger of its be-
ing Intercepted and brought back for
long gains, and this means that II the
passer can get the necessary distance
he can make his heaye as far TO one
side AZ the side line will permit.