New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-31
Football Subs
Should Be Seen
AndNot Heard
But Some Coaches Find II
Easy to Avoid
New Rule
By Louis Lee Arms

Dy LOUIS Lee FfrHio
Up on Morningside Heights the
other afternoon a gentleman named
Healy was sent in TO replace Full
back Shaw. Now II may have been
merely a racial inclination, but Mr..
Healy's lips were seen to move. the
Columbia quarterback cooked an at
tentive ear-and the Blue and White
was penalized Is yards.
So far as we know this is the first
working example Of the rule which
specifies that a substitute, like good
children, should be seen and not
heard. Think OF the miles and miles
that Johnny Evers would be penal
lied during the course Of o season,
and Deerfoot zm would probably
wake up some fne morning In Tokto'
The rules committee, by this SO
uhistieated mandate. aimed 10 wreck
the coaeh's line Of communication. a
coach who is being paid TO whit
amounts to that-has q most unethieai
way Of smashing the golden rules OF
collegiate competition as they are told
in song and story and absorbed By the
athletes mother and sister. The dear
old coach Is only prevented from esrry'
ing q machine gun on the field and
shooting the enemy dead by the knowl'
edge that if he did his team would Be
penalized half way to its goal.
Mote in Committees Eye
The paid coach has long been Q mote
in the rules committees judicial eye.
They know that somewhere back on
nebulous side line the paid coach "a
lurking, ready to spring q few new
curves on the visiting fremen IL b
gets half a chance. The substitute
dodge worked we'll for time. When a
coach felt that his team was absolutely
going to the dogs he loaded a subss'-
tute down with multitudincus orders
and shot him into the game to dis
seminate the same. While it was de-
sirablc that a substitute know some
thing about football, It was more i'm
portant that he have a good memory.
So this year the rules committees took
the substitute away from tho coach.
Last season Demosthenes might have
substituted for O'urady at centre, but
this year the coach would pick Colonel
House.
Yet with all the exceeding pains TO
keep the coach in order, this pictu-
rescue gentleman continues to hig1
spade the rules committee regularly anc
get sway with 1t. Ii is rumored now b.
Romeo Rumor himself that some Of our
best and most incorrigible paid coaches
have developed the wig-wag system,
popularized by Connie Mack. to such an
extent that they can virtually cit on
bench and call the fullbsck bone
head.
To the unsophisticated q eoach's
wiggling finger may be only nervous
reflex, but the initiated and the rules
committee will feel certain that the
coach Is telling his right tackle II he
does any more hsndshaking with his
opponent he will get the buns rush.
When the coach crosses his feet he Is
not taking it easy; he Is directing .
line plunge of left tackle.
More Effective Scheme
A scheme with less fnesse, but efs
fective, is that Of sending q substitute
quarterback into the game at an I'M
portant moment. The substitute may
taI 70 b;a copppaars hut he IL
prohibited from calling signals, aad 10
is just possible the coach has told him
what signals to call.
However fast the rules committee
runs, 1t seems to BIO half lap back Of
the coach. Perhaps next season the
committee will suggest that substitutes
BE muLzled and coaches brought to the
field in irons. In that event, when the
coach broke his irons and emitted O
yell, it would probably be the signal
20 tackle the runner who had busted
loose with a misdirected forward pass.
Among the Southern elevens trying
to find place in the sun is Tulane
University, at New Orleans. Tulane
has played most Of its football through
THE Times Picayune" in the past, but
this season "Nor Leens" Is Of the opin.
ion that the Audubon University is
about to come through. An over
whelming defeat Of Florida gave New
Orleans Joy. It was one Of the hrss
overwhelming defeats they ever had at
tended in which they had played the
part Of overwhelming. Their CUSTOM
airy role has been an Improvisation Of
Felix J. Defeat.
Rutgers has a corking chance to de.
LII 80.
Newark, and IL It does that will take
rank with the best Of the elevens In the
East Rutgers Is among the teams that
have suffered one defeat. Pittsburgh.
Brown, Washington and Jefferson, the
Army, Dartmouth, Williams and Ste.
vens are the Eastern elevens that have
yet to taste defeat.
Carlisle indians Play
pra rtirA Car,a To-Jey