Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23

hVe yards behind the scri,,r,.
line the play is spoiled: for '' re
requirement practically gives fhs
play away before it is star4ad az
makes 1t useful only as blur
4. That the abolition of the -,
side kick is a retrogression "'
A lot of us were inclined to tb,..
that the change from three don-1
TO four was going to shift the va,.
back to the stone age AGAR -
seems, however, that the r-ules 49,
mittee knew more about II thu, w.
.d1d-which isn't particularly 80.
ptising The danger Of the -.
time, messed-up alb ut-sorsr ,h,.,
struggle IS gone, thanks 70 so-.N,i
changes in the rules. and :, 49,.
likely TO return.
We are quite OF the pr,n,...-
notion in regard TO the fo-u,,.s
pass provision If the play is ror.h
retaining 1t is worth making val
play From the very start II Ia.
been hedged around with oonH
tons and penalties. Last wear +bo,.
made it ridiculous. This year thew
have simplif1ed it good bit Nsvt
year perhaps they will allow mas,
TO be made from any old place
which will be better still
ONE virtue of the present gam.
it seems really to have ,as.
Sened the number of injuries. n,
course, there will always he in.
]uries from football. But the nr,,.
Der seems less this year than ever
before. A boy was fatally inturad
the other day. But It was in .
Sunday game and doubtless he.
tween a couple of picked up teams
whose members We're in no condi.
ton and who knew no football Ma
really serious accidents have han
pened this year among trained
players.
I'm fact, in All the history Of foot.
Dali there have been only very
few fatal accidents to trained ath-
letes. Not since football was In.
troduced. nearly 40 years ago hs;
there been fatality al Harvard
Yale. Pennsylvania Princeton or
cornell. This year. under the new.
est rules, there are even less in.
1uries than before. Just WHY the
present game should be less wear
ing and tearing We can't say for
sure But. anyhow. IT Is. as the
records show.
A MOTHER interesting feature u
the present game Of footba,, is
the vast possibility it affords for
variety of attack. The dav Is gone
when a team can know only hall
dozen plays and get by with them
Now, the forward pass. the various
shift plays, the trick plays and The
o!d straight football offer unrim.i-
ed possibilities
The Tech team this year. for in.
stance, has some formations the
like Of which nobody ever saw he
fore. Coach Heisman entered the
season knowing that his team rad
no weight and that if the Jackets
We're to make any showing al an
they would have to do il by means
of some football that hadn't been
discovered up to that time So he
sat down and invented just such
football. That II has worked well
the scores of the games Tech has
played this year demonstrate
Football men say that the Tech
attack is the most puzzltue they
ever saW-that just when they
think they have = certain forms-
ton diagnosed it develops into
something else entirely and leaves
them still engaged in a hopeless
guessing contest And Coach FJeis-
man admits that he has had Z
world of trouble teaching the new
formations and the new plays to his
men. and that, a that, he has as
smart team as he eve saw.
Georgia showed a lot of int est
ing and puzzling plays here Satur-
day. and will learn a lot of Others.
And as for Vanderbilt-Wei that
team is loaded with new stuff
They say that in the East they Iook
on the forward pass as a good bluff
and nothing else. Well, If Harvard
keeps on thinking that the Crimson
players have a terrible awakening
coming to them when Nande,oli
journeys there. If McGugius men
uncorl1 the sort of stuff they have
in other big games there WIFI he
lot of surprised players up In Cam