The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-09
Washington and Jefferson
Past Master at Aerial Game
BY FRANK O. MENkg.

NEW YORK, Nov 9-Tnd Jones OF
Yale. uttered truth. when he said
"Thc only way to break up that for
ward pass attack OF Washington and
Jefferson In to oppose him with n team
feet tall"
No team IN America can use the aerial
play with tho uuCnuuy perfection OF those
w. and j. men. They are the standards
by which all other forward passers must
he judged. They are absolute masters
~ II. and handle II In way that almost
defles lts checking
W. and j, attempted fifty-elght such
plays In that game with Yale week
ur so ago and thirty were successful
only two or three times were the alert
ale men able to intercept the remark
able pitching OF Lloyd McCrelght. the
" and J tulbuCk " and j., on its
thirty completed tosseH gained something
lkc 800 lards-a single game record for
bah advancement by forward passing that
may cndurc for years 10 come.
Never saw anything IN my life like
that air attack OF w. and J ." declared
Jones, after the w and J.-Yale Ramo
was over The way those Pennsylvania
boys handled that ball was battling our
men tried 10 stop ita-but. they were help
less We had built Gp what we thought
WAS sure defense for that play and W
hetIger Perteots Pass
Rob Folwcll was " and Js flrst tI-
tor In tho forward pass Bob believed i'm
plctN In the short pass. and rarely va
ricd II with "a long throw Folwoils pass
vas 10 a point Just a few Yards beyond
the scrlmmlgc line, ana right into the
s'"thhg mass OF battling players Metz
pcr, however, mixes up his passes. and
therein lies the beauty OF " and ~
l'lG sky attack The enemy. after "a
while, would check the Folwcll short pass
Drcuuso they knew mat invariably n
could hr made lntu-lhr line But they
can't do II with Meyers, because soils
Most teams use only two or three men
on IA" receiving end ~ the play Sooner
or later m" opposition lrlrus the idcu-
tiy ut those men and they cover them
every tim" play is started Az n re
suit the forward passes hy other teams
have not been extremely successful But
M'tzgcr has sChUolcd Carh and every ono
OF hts men I'm IN" suatchiug ~ the ball
Aud each and every one n used at one
lime or another during game
AZ the moment the ban is passed, the
" and ! PLAYERS. break through the
opposition line ana run us far into for
rlgn territory as possible Then II iH up
to MCtrcight to determine which man
In least covered 90 That In tho man to
whom Mc'r"ight makes the heaVc be
no M 'lu. hilbNtht guard, center or
mckle when the center snaps back the
ball no on,--nOt even McCrcight. knows
20 whom the bah eventually will go No
wonder II Is an Unacceptable play
Sometimes McCreight makes 30-yArd
throw TO n player near the sldclines
The next time they throw may be to a
w and j. man twenty feet beyond near
midneld. or McCreight may cross" tho
enemy by making short throw to a
man who Ia standing Just II few fec,
ahead OF the scrlmmage line. He doesn't
operate on schedule he throws long ones
and short ones, into the aCrlmmago line
, or far beyond t and his mixing" OF
the torser ir one Of the biggest factors
In Its success
MoCreIpht a Master pssset.
TO watch McCrelght hadllng the bali
game In which he ngurcs lie stands
from ten TO twenty yards behind tho line
realizing that he must have much lee.
way because when the ball IL mapped.
his line at once quits guarding and de-
tIon to take the McCrelght throw. Calm
lv, coolly. McCreight stands there. with
m" hall I'm his hand. waiting until he
can determine which OF his men IL least
covered. And then, with the control and
almost the speed that Walter Johnson
makes tihe throw II IL u mystery how
. fellow with hands ms small as Nc.
Creisht. can so grasp the big pigskin
MS 10 perfectly guide It's course
Those who saw tho Ynle-W and ].
game which was won by the Bulldogs, 80
20 II. are unit In declaring that had
w and J. opened with It's forward pass,
the result would have been vastly differ
ont. But " and ], elected. during nj.
most all OF the first half to use every
Other offensive play hut ITS remarkable
ground gamer. In the second half W.
and !. actually started It's forward pass.
ng and Nalr was hcwidcred The nght
PENNSYLVANIA eleven ON succensivA "sky.
line phlys, moved the ball up and down
then field ~ II pleased. Yale tried des-
peratoly-hut yaluly--tO stop H. But with
monotonous regularity. McCrelght threw
tho ball and ". and J men grabbed IL
for long gain And NO u went Once
w and J. got tho bnll on lts own 20.
ward line and In four passes by Nc
Cre'sht. had carried n across the Yale
goal line for touchdown II was remark
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