The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-15

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Center. ..Des Jardien. Chicago......
Guard. Brown, Navy ............
Talbot, Yale ..s........,..
Eno......MeErilat, Army ..........
Quarter. Huntington. Colgate ....-.
aalfback Craig, Michigan .........
Halfback Brickley, Harvard ........
Fullback.. Mahan, Harvard .........
Western football players are not
given extended recognition in the 1919
All-American football team. The sea
Walter Camp in the issue of Golfers
Weekly Of Dec. 20 date. Camps ar
ticle was in part as follows:
The football season of 1918 was
characterized by the most astonishing
ups and downs! Harvard, the leader,
was the only team to show thorough
bred consistency of performance
through the two months.
The problem, not as yet fully solved,
seemed to be to find the happy medi-
Nun between the wide-open, reckless
game (Which, if it ZONES off, is a win
ner, but otherwise is fraught with dire
disaster at timesl and the old-fash-
ioned conservative running and kick
ing game of old-school football. Then
comes the added question: If this
aatetr method is adopted, where should
IIS 4lL1S ne UTGWn eLWSG GAlduSSluS
a team with running plays In its own
territory, and, on the other hand, go
ing to the other extreme Of using the
kicking am to such an extent as to
fail to get the full advantage OF the
eunning attack? Several teams made
this latter mistake. ..9.-r
If the game were to develop into one
where a C side purted and waited
for the other side to make an error, 1t
would not prove satisfactory to those
who care for the American game Of
football. This point, 1t seems. is pref
ty generally conceded. but there were
enough flashes of the running game
exhibited throughout the season to
show that, given another year, there
will be attacks which possess sufficient
variety and force to make their way
thirty or forty yards on the journey
down the field. To get over the goal
line from the 25-yard line was per-
dams than by any other team. Cornell
did it we'll in her final match with
Pennsylvania, and the Army in an en-
stirely different way against the Navy.
,,One Of the most enlightening games
from this standpoint was that played
between Notre Dame and h Army,
in which the former scored no less
than IS points, while the Army scored
r13. With Eichenlaub in the backfield,
q. a. good runner; Dorais as quarter, an
excellent forward passer; n Rockne
their captain, a good end at taking
passes, Notre Dame played g. combln
Tation' game which, as the above score
? shows, was altogether too much fol
1.-THE Army as we'll as the other oppo-
Enents of the season. The Army took
Ia leaf out of Notre Danes book, too
Iby itself developing the forward pass
game and defeating the Navy with it
There were various forms. of specia
~-gtLskA - Ali 1880
many of which were used by the most
prominent teams, II consisted OF
shift plays and what might be CALLED
-four square formation"-that is, tht
four men in the backfield arranged IL
a Kind Of pHrallelograYn. usually will
i. one man somewhat further back!
=" There were no especially new devel'
,oprnents along these lines. Eight mel
on the line were occasionally resortec
ito. The Onward pass was used rather
more freely, but, with the exception
of a few teams, the OF thu
play. lay in he execution, for there arr
almost infinite possibilities. for 1t. I'm,
till, however, the men spend time il
perfecting themselves in throwing tn
pass; until they are expert, no amour
of development of plays for his pur
pose will produce an effective game.
If some patron of football woul'
end east some Of the backs of tn
|%@INSWs AGAtdIlu LGdIlS uOW -pIaSlnS Ol III
Pacific coast, this would offer a posi-
bility of n Of the most suggestiv
demonstrations of passing skill tina
could be imagined. American player
have INDUCED in their own game s
long that it Is well nigh impossible t
persuade an American back to spen
the necessary time In acquiring skill a
passing-not alone forward passing
but eve passing back.
In, response. to the demand of tn
public, 1t is more h probable tina
the players will be numbered in tn
season OF 1914.
The An-Anerican team of the sea
son of 1914 is exceptionally strong
While the contest for one or two c
the line positions would not be calie
over strong, the number of first-clas
backfeld men has been larger than
any other year.
This was one of those seasons whei
in the case of many institutions, sta
ends really were the exceptions. Crac
teams were forced to take men frol
other positions and try them out o
end in hope of lettering the conditions
The. number of leading candidates fo
an An-American selection prove
smaller and smaller as the season ad
vanced. Probably this was due in n
small measure to the fact that tn
blocking of ends going down the fiel
has been carried now to such
scientific point as to make 1t very diff
indeed to performthe duties salts
Y&ctorily.. Hence. when one says tn;
Hogsett, the Dartmouth captain, hs
fairly earned his place in a year whe
the blocking OF ends has been especia
lys good, and so many have failed ur
der it. 1t can be taken as an assertiC
that reflects unusual credit upon tt
s1,ou AjfhnJIph 4nArhang regarded =