El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-23
BEST FOOTBALL SEASON CLOSING;
TEAMS SOON PLAY LAST CANES
Season Has Been Most Spectacular, Profitable Finan-
ciaIly and Successful in History of Sport; Open
Style of Play Has Been Responsible for
Great Growth of Game in Popularity;
Paid Coaches Are Best
BY FRANK C. SIENKE.

By FRANK
"HE 1914 football season which
closes this week will go down
l. in history as the most surprising,
the most spectacular and the most
successful financially of any season in
the long history of the rah rah sport
The season was filled with surprises
of startling nature Not one week
went by that some big eleven did not
90 down to defetat or was tied by one
of the SO called weaker elevens Not
one week fitted hence without the
grand old dope being upset in a fashion
that made it dizzy.
The new style game that was uni
Versally adopted this year was the
cause for the surprises and it also was
the cause for spectacular playing that
featured nearly every game in which
evenly matched teams figured.
me open style game changed foot
DaA from game that was rather IN
interesting and marked by only a few
spectacular open plays to a game re-
pIete with open and spectacular plays.
Practically every college team in the
country will finish the season with
bigger profits than ever before. The
three big cOleges-Yale, Princeton and
uarVard-will have a bulky net profit,
due to the fact that the Harvard
Princeton drew 10000 persons the
Yale-Princeton game about 1000 and
the Haie-Harvard game over 70, 900. The
spectators paid 81 each to see those
games, so it may be seen that the total
proceeds from these game alone were
over 100000.
One thing that the season has proved
is that the professional coaching sys-
TEN is better than that of graduate
coaching.
Harvard pays Percy Haughton some
thing like $1,000 for his three months
work, and ever since Haughton has
been coaching Harvard the Crimson
HNra IL T.
those present. Yale hired a coach
this year and Yale this year has shown
better form than any of the Yale teams
for the past four or five years when
the amateur coaching system was in
force.
Princeton has graduate coaches and
Princeton's showing this year shrieks
against the graduate coaching system.
Michigan has a professional coach It
has had a professional coach for many
years in the person of Hustle En-
Up" YOst and in all those years AIichi-
gan has figured largely in football af-
fairs.
Washington & jefferson hired Bob
FolweH to do the coaching two years
ago and ever since Washington & JEFF
ferson has been one of the big noises
in the football world. The Uuniver-
sity of Pittsburg has a professional
coach, and Pittsburg this year had one
oe the very best teams in the east.
Most Of the football elevens in the
east have considerable difficulty in ex-
ecuting a forward pass In the big
games in the east in which the for
ward pass was tried more than a score
OF times, it was successful in only a
few instances. Judged from the
spectators viewpoint, the forward pass
ought to be successful at least five
time out Of ten.
Princeton tried half dozen forward
in 10 inc NIsrv-~ rrz1
Only once did it take" That re-
suited in 20 yard game for the Tigers.
In two Of the other four cases Har-
ward got the ball while in the three
and was to be taken back to the lay
ing point.
| Carlisle has had a professional coach
! Carlisle has been one of the most
/ feared teams in the country.
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It seems from the spectators view
point that the man who handle the
| throwing end of the forward pass wait
! too long before making the heave
/ They got the ball, pull back their arms
| tipping the opposition to what is COM
! ing and then usually wait and take
| aim. The business of taking aim
may be all right, but it hasn't proved
so.
While the thrower is taking aim II
/ gives the opposing players a chance
| to shoot toward the man who is to re-
| ceive the ball and kill off his chances
/ to catch the ball.
It seems that if the signal is giveI
| correctly there is no need for the pass
! er of the ball to take aim before throw
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