Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
CRIMSON WILL USE
 NEW STYLE OF ATTACK
Harvard Will Employ Lateral and
 Forward ?asses.

Forward ?asses
 A style of attack, thus far only | hinted at bT the Harvard varsity foot | ball team is more than likely to fig iire conspicuous,ys and possibly vic | toriously, for the Crimson in Satur- | days football classic at the Yale l Bowl. Passine Game.
 This attaek wil embody .ate-aI and i forward passing plays such as never have been employed by an Eastern eleven, a much more elaborate coilec- ton than that which Frank Hinkey re- vesled in the Yale esevep of 1914 and unless Yale has secured information. i which is unknown and undreamed of l by Harvard men, except those on the varsity squad Yale will have had no 1 opportunity to fSEluate a studied i defence and such a defence is the only method by which such plays can be successfully met and overcome. Accounts of Iarvard's practice ses- i sions this season. well censored by the Crimson coaching staff, have contain ed no mention of the drilling the Har- yard team has had in the passing style of footbaf. So contrary is this sty,e to the style Harvard has em- ployed for years, that even the few l whfsperings about Cambridge con- cernirg it. have been laughed at Yet i Harvard has been most thoroughly | drilled in this type. of play; possesses men who are unusually capable in throwing and handling passes, while ] the events of the season as regards | the two ancient rivals of Saturday.
 emphasizes the wisdom Nof employing overhead football against the sons of Eli Yale.
 l Harvard for years has carried a sys- | tenn of elaborate passing plays. It has found 1t necessary to uncover this sys- tenn, but few times Two years ago, | in the Harvard-Penn State game. how ever, with Penn State leading in the score, up to the last few moments of play. Harvard won the victory by
 means of a quadrupie pass which saw
 the ball ziz-zag three times across the
 field. and then forward into the arms
 Of Wilcox. a Harvard back who raced
 with 1t to a touchdown. And. although the bulk of the passing plays Harvard has used resularly are direct forward
 passes familiar to all teams, there
 have been other notable instances
 when more unusual passing has fig
 ured in Harvard's play.
 Dark Horse in Field.
 Coolidge and Harte, the regular Har-
 yard ends, and Casey. the regular left
 halfeback already this. season have
 proved them Selves adept at receiving
 forward passes, and Harvard's per
 centage of completed forward pass
 plays this season is far ahead of that
 of any other Eastern eleven. But in | to COO!1OSe-- 1aTLe ana casey.
 there is a man or Harvard's squad
 a comparativelv unknown pInyer so far as the East is concerned - who
 two seasons ago was considered the
 greatest forward pass received in the
 West
 That man is Joe Ryan, the star end , of the great Notre Dame eleven of two . years ago.
 Ryan, being transfer student last
 season, was ineligible for the liar yard varsity, and worked through the 1915 season as an end on the Har- 1 ward subs. but such an end was he, } particularly in handling forward pass es. that those familiar with his ability
 were then convinced that he would 7 win regular position on this sea sons team.
 Ryan reported for the team: was given a seat at the varsity training
 table. but was not selected for the } varsity squad with the first group picked, and those familiar with the situation wondered. That first week I found Ryan playing end for the scrub l tenn again: found Coach Haughton l solicitous as to how he was getting , along. and a few weeks later found ) the Harvard censors finally allowing against the varsity to escape to the | newspapers.
 At the Varsity Table. l All liiIS tltiiS Al Sllll T6fIlHlnSu 8
 guest of the varsity training table . instead of the scrub team table, at } which all other of his scrub mates 7ined t Finally Ryan was moved up to the t varsity squad. and again those fa- niliar with his ability predicted he would win out in the fight for reg ular end position. But such was not
 the case. Tn fact, since Ryan has
 been a member of Harvard's varsity
 squad he has taken part in but one contest and on that occasion was in the lineup but few moments. Tn that
 few moments, however, a forward pass play was called for. and Joe
 Ryan was the man to dash down the
 field. and Joe Ryan was the man to receive the pass for 15-yard gain,
 and in a fashion that showed he pos sessed all the ability he had been 1 credited with.
 Consequently, it will be seen that Harvard is wonderfully equipped in
 forward pass receivers, and all who , have followed the team know that it