The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-08
FOOTBALL COACHING INNOVATIONS MAKE
 APPEARANCE ON GRID
Other Comments of Sport News From All Parts of the Globe-M0ran Says He Knows Willard's,
 Weakness

New York, November 7-More than the usual number of football coaching inno- vations have made their appearance on the gridiron this season. In the middle west one gridiron mentor has erected a 15-foot watch tower from which point of vantage he can easily detect errors in team and individual play. At an eastern
 institution a canvas dummy, with a black spot at the height of the average play CTS arms. is set up well in advance of and to one side of the scrimmage line. Back field candidates spend considerable time each afternoon receiving the ball from the center and hurling it through the air in an attempt to score a bullseye on the dummy, which represents the re- ceiver of the forward pass. Incidentally Washington and Jefferson, which recent ly successfully completed p out of 24 forward passes in the game against Yale, uses an entirely different system of prac- tice.
 Athletic heart.' the nemesis of the oarsman, runner. football player and others who indulge in strenuous forms of sport, has been conquered. If you have enlargement of the valvular organs as the result of overcompetition a physi- clan, or on pinch, carpenter can quickly effect a cure All that is needed is slight tapping with a hammer upon the seventh cervical vertebra and your heart will shrink to proper proportions
 while you wait.
 At least that is the gist of an an nouncement made by prominent author ity, and it sounds so simple that even the layman hesltates 10 start a con- troversy, especially since the physician already has first call upon the hammer Furthermore the athletic enthusiast can not but hope that the report is true. Accepted at it's face value it opens a wonderful field for improvement in many lines of sport Think what it will near to baseball when the average big clut manager discovers that by pounding al certain point with bat he can change a solid concrete skull to a receptacle filled with something approaching human intelligence.
 The recent dropping of two prominent athletes by the Amateur Athletic unior and the withdrawal from competition o1 several Yale baseball and football stars has created a wave of athletic investiga.
 
 the country. Alumni rumor has it thai a number of eastern and western univer- stiles will uelve into the athletic history of some stars of the nine eleven anC crew during the coming winter
 The alleged evils of summer baseball excessive expense accounts and gate re ceipts will all be discussed together with the status of so-called amateurs who spend their summers pot hunting with out other visible means of support Ii this proposed house cleaning Is instituted as has been suggested by some of tho leading universities and amateur sporI governing bodies of the country, the re- suit cannot be even forecast Certain ii is. however. that English newspapers anc sport publications will find room, despite the press of war matter, to explain tc their readers for the hundredth time why the United States always wins the Olym. pic games.
 Shanghai. China, will have its regular autumn race meet this month, although many of the Englishmen there made strenuous protests 's ainst it. The op ponents of racing argued that no Britor could enjoy such sport while his country and her allies are fighting in a life ant death struggle in Europe. After a pro longed controversy the English director. of the race club decided that by holdins tho meeting as usual they would proclaim to the world their firm conviction of tho ultimate success of the allies
 An educational authority once remarked Curing the course of lecture that, 'Th, faculty of successful teaching Is not al ways possessed by the brightest scholar Disciples desiring elucidation are referred | to the case of Messrs. Rush and Hinkey i Speedy Rush was not good enough tt
 make the Princeton football team in hi undergraduate days, while Frank Hinke, l was one of the greatest ends that eve pulled on Yale jersey. A careful stud, | of the records of the two elevens coache, l oy these gridiron instructors this sea son would lead to the opinion that tn fates were balancing the accounts o previous years.
 | Apparently the next few months not to be an off-season for baseball. N sooner was the worlds series slipped int
 its proper place in the archives of tn national game when the winter leagu l stepped into the spotlight Already sey erai peace pacts have been sealed be 1 tween organized and independent base 1 ball and broken again before the wa had hardened. The selling of clubs i the National and American leagues is
 daily pastime played without the ali of real money. Unless Ban Johnson in
 terferes soon the pennants and world