The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-01
Corbett's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
By JAMES J. CoRBErr

ried me. I used to lay awake in bed
 for hours trying to figure out new forma- tions and new methods of attack.
 "One night I had a dream of dou-
 ble pass that would result in the final
 play through center When l awoke in
 the morning every detail of that play
 was still fresh in my mind. l could scarcely restrain myself till practice came
 that afternoon and I had a chance to try it out. The very first time the play was attempted against the scrubs 1t re- suited in touchdown. And 1t was that very same play that was my mainstay for years and won for me more games than any other play that ever em- ployed.
 "The play was this:
 ''The center passed the ball to the guar | ter and the quarter tossed It to an ehu who was standing a little back Of the rush line The end would run across as ! if to make a sprint around the opposla | end. preceded by interference As the | end. running back of the scrimmage line, was about opposite center he would pass ] inc ball 10 a lettering halfback. By that
 time the opposition had rushed toward the end in an effort to head OH tne man it supposed was carrying the pa.l.
 Then my halfback would run straight 1 through the center of the original scrlm-
 mage line and, there being no one there 1 to halt him. frequently would hurry
 along for a touchdown
 While coaching the Oberlin (ohio) l University team I introduced boundary l trick which won many games for my
 team It worked in this way;
 | "When our team had the ball near the boundary line the center apparently 1 would toss the ball back to the quarter l But he didn't Instead, he would sWihg the ball back of him and then nolo !. up so high that il would be opseureu from the view of the enemy hhes.'ls"' @ At the same moment that he scoopeo tne hall back, my quarterback would fake receiving the ball and also pretend to nass if to one of the halfbacks. AS soon las this was done our interference would
 start shooting toward the end opposite the boundary line Of course, the men
 on the other team would gaiiop atsel that interference in it's efforts 10 reacn ! the halfback As soon as the opposilioH
 was well started on it's wild goose chase inc end who belonged on the bounuars jline simply reached down, took the pau out of the snapper's hand ana tue"
 slIipped right down the boundary hue- often for touchdown. ''One of my most successful mass pias
 was with Oberlin in 1894 l pulled tn' , ends and tackles back of the hhe-as i was nermissible under the rules in thos' , ldavs leaving only the center anu tn' , guards on the line. As soon as the pai was snapped back, the two tackles ah' f the two ends forming the flrst me v i interference would move iorwalu'
 balfhaeks would form the secondary nm r of Interference, followed by the tulloaci , with the ball That gave a seven mai I interference and when 1t hit an ehenn! a line with its concentrated force, some 9 thing usually happened
 D That tackles back play was oIi' n that was used by my teams TOT Hlan
 vaars-and always with splendid gainin il results. But | abandoned it with the neS V era of football that ruled out mass play :. of that sort
 : (To be continued tomorrow)