New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-20
Ed Cochems Thinks 1t Is
Not Sound and That Har-
ward Team Will Win.
SAYS 1T DEPENDS
ON SKILL OF BACko
SUGGESTS Use of Stiff Arm and
Not Clean lacking TO Nil
PLAY in Its Inception.
BY HERBERT.

IA Cochcms. coach Of the Univer-
sitv Of Maine football eleven thus year
il hack I'm New York, following !nV
close Of the season against NeSt ROM
last Saturday. and dropped IN the once
he Gives it as his opinion that har-
,.ord viii heat Yale at New haven 70
marrow on the theory that the la'eIs'
,,assin- game. worked out so cleNerlN
nv Frank Hinkey. will be easily broken
nm by properly devised defence. ~
oIso thinks that the lateral passing
,,or,e 6cDerds entirely for It's success
on tbo Individuality Of the backs ana
tbat Tho pIav Will not be accepted as
c,c Of the basic principles OF oueh'~
for American college football.
Yale beat Maine in the opening game
~ tho season. and CochCmS says ms
mer. unprcparcd as they were stopPe"
The plav several times Tor q loss 49,,
II NAV be suggested here tnat
priDceton also stopped the play lor
ios, several times. but that II went
o,,ito well enough for big gains ana
ofton enough 70 Justify Us use ana eS-
toblish It's value, especially when com
hined with the forward pass. $500,
Going more deeply into the suoJe'"
"Tbo lateral pass is an old play re-
babilitat,d by Yale, the father OF ioV'
hall invention. iu an effort 10 mart 'ue
forward pass p real factor IN 'he o.
fensivc tactics permitted under '"e
"I. viii suffice TO say that il sny
ouartet Of backs in the country can
make a success of u wilson hno"ies'
Ainsworth and lie Gore, OF lale. are
The men. Under the fixed CONDITIONS
Of offence and defence PROVIDED py NY
rules committee. however, ana d"
other conditions being equal tne 'a1-
oral pass play Will prove lalluiV'
since the factors OF time ana sPaO'
will not permit of It's success o"CI
system Of offence is the primary pa"
of the Rugby game, IN when PoSSIv
sion Of the ball is OF niue 80
yyib seven men on the line OF scrlm'
mage and only four men PACE " "a.
80 he executed uniformly WI.
enough success 20 JUSTIFY us CsS' A.
,c,,rse II is cloverly mixed WIN lne
rush and forward pass plays a. az
Ian. those plavs cannot always ne car
RED out without a change % i0'
ton. 800 ,,1o,-s the
-. .~o con,noUod 10 stand well be-
b;nd the scrimmaCe line and some ols-
tsrco apart in order that the loca'loI,
IF tho ball may be rapidly changed
trom hack 10 back for the purpose o.
oivinr the PLAYER who will rush II
chance TO get away. In the rush pay
Tho hacks are compelled 10 play cioset
a. The line OF scrimmage IN ordeI '"S'
a. ,Ie,er carving the ball may reach
the line Of scrimmagc at the time wy
49, GRO made otherwise the player
on defence who can use his hands VII,
break free and make the tackle oehlhu
the opponents line.
Tbere has always been defence Tor
cvorv offence. and the one for inns
plav. I'm nv opinion, is simple u the
Harvard tackles and ends viii use tne
e4iF arm instead Of the clean tackle
ON an lateral plays. !. O., all plays tnat
start wide. IL will break them up ana
for irredeemable losses.
"If the Yale end plays loose the har-
ward tackle has just as good an oppor-
tunitv 20 break through, and PETER
chance TO break up line plays mean
while the Harvard end. being entirety
free. can pursue the same tactics, as
the lateral pass depends on no inter
ference back of the line.
"If Harvard plays a loose centre, say
three or four yards back Of the me,
he will be IN position 10 cover an
line plays, as we'll as plays INSIDE
tackle. THIS leaves the three defensive
backs free 10 diagnose whether the
plav Is 20 be lateral. obllque or direct
and plenty of time to reach the poIn'
Of attack before the play gains ground
and also 20 diagnose whether IL is 10
be a forward pass
Theory is one thing, practice is an
other. Mr. Cochems may be right az
he is q keen student of football, but II
strikes me that Harvard will not find
IT. so easy to break up the play and
the various and sundry varieties grow
ing out Of II.
When asked 20 express an opinion on
the Yale-H Harvard game tomorrow
George Foster Sanford said: 81 think
Rutgers will beat Washington and JEFF
ferson."
In fifteen punts against Princeton
Eddie Mahan, of Harvard, averaged 80
wards. In thirteen punts against
Princeton lie Gore. OF Yale, averaged
40 wards. Seven yards on every eX-
change is worth considering.
Yale has not won football game
from Harvard since 1909, when the
score was 8 TO 0. Two tie games and
two victories for the Crimson followed.
Percy D. Haughton, the Harvard
coach, wound up a speech at q mas
meeting in Cambridge on Wednesday
night by saying;
"It's the devil for a team to be on
to-. because that makes the other rel,
low the under dog, makes him fight all
the harder; and sometimes he gets
away with IL. The team that Harvard
IT, going to meet on Saturday is the
best one that the Ellis have had since
1909, and we fear them, and rightly.
TOO. They have good material, good
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