Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-17
Coach Explains Technicalities
HeiSman Writes About Plays

play at a given period earlier in the
game.
RoUGHlNG FULL5ACk ON PUNT
The only penalty heretofore pro-
vided for running into and roughing
the punter of a team after he has
made a punt has been disqualified
ton of the rude person. But this in
depreciation committee decided tc
give the malefactor a few extra
lashes II his offense was enacted
while the punter was standing be-
hind his own goal line and endeavor-
ing to get off a punt. They have
decreed that in such case the offender
shall not only retire from the draw
ing room, but the offended team shall
be further solaced by the award OF
a touchback on the play, which will
permit them TO take the ball out TO
the 20-yard line and kick II again
or scrimmase Il as in other cases
of touchback.
Serves him right, tool
WHEN EIGHT MEN ARE ON LINE.
II is we'll known that only seven
men are required to be on the line
of scrimmage when the ball is snap
ped: but sometimes coaches work out
q play that calls for eight of their
men to be on the line of scrimmage
Now, there are a lot OF rules as to
how these required seven men shall
stand with reference to that line and
to each other; but the committee de-
cided that when eight are on the
line only seven OF them need con-
form to these reules, while the eighth,
II on the end of the line, will be per
mitted the inestimable privilege OF
locating" at any place on that line
that lhe sees At, and of standing on
his head at that, If he prefers such
a posture.
POSITION OF MEN ON DEFENSE.
For years there has been more or
less doubt in officials minds whether
the rule relating to interchange OF
backfield men with inemen, and vice
versa, referred to offense or to de-
fense, or to both At last the com
mittee has grappled with that ques-
ton and Topped 1t with a double
nelson. II is now made plain that the
law relates only to positions of play
ers on the offense, and that when
il comes to defense q team may dump
all It's eleven men into coal bin,
shuttle them up and pour them out
like so many dice to play whittier
away they please for all the old rule
book cares
incidentally the discussion Of this
point brought out the fact that play .
ers are named with reference to the
positions they play In an offensive
lineup, not from the way or the
places they play on the defense. This
has become fairly important point
of late years, with the newspaper
men at least. For instance, We see
a man playing on the Tech team
right guard on the offense and right
end on defense; or the right half on
offense playing full back on defense.
Take another interesting point. The
quarterback used always to be the
man who first handled the ball from
the snapper back, and as, formerly,
he could not run with 1t until It had
first passed through the hands Of
some third player it followed that he
rarely ran with it at all But now
any man Except the guards) who
first receives the ball from the snap
per may run with it. Thus the old
time quarterback with his special
functions has passed away, and the
question under systems that do not
use him to pass the ball comes up,
who Is quarterback on that team? ,"
Why. In such a case nobody is quar-
terbaCk any more than the eleventh
man is halfbaCk or fullbaCk or
anything else; and no more than one
of the regular halves is quarterback.