The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-27
Hes ) q Hero If
It Works; q Boob
If 1t Doesn'i
By HENRY L. FARRELL


/ UNITED Press staff Correspondent. ]
i NEW YORK, Dec. ~. Anything
goes il football if you get away will
lit.
/ The rankest piece of judgment be.
cones the cleyerest strategy anc
great generalship when the play goes
Through.
The quarterback who violates al
the unwritten rules Of the game in
trying to outwit the opposition Is q
hero when everything connects. But
Ehe's hopeless boob, crowned with
bone when the attempt fails.
Consider Chic Harley. greatest Of
western stars and one Of The wonders
Of the modern game,
Harley had habit Of doing the
things that the first lessons Of coach.
es to green players said not to do.
But he got by with them in every
ease and he's the greatest Of the
lgreat.
In the Michigan game With the bal
on 0hio's fifteen-yard line he called
for forward pass. The terrific
chances taken need no enumeration.
But he got away with it. He pulled
similar stunts in every game until
some critics accused him Of no,
knowing any better.
One Of the most aotable examples
Of taking chances occurred in the
Penn State-Pittsburgh game. Hess
dropped back Of the goal line for
what according to the unMritten law
of the game should have been des-
perate punt out. But Hess didn't
kick. He stood there with the ball
in his hands dodging Pitt tacklers.
Then Bob Higgins, the SENSATIONAL
State end, got loose and Hess tossed
the ball to him. Higgins ran 90
yards for a touchdown. The play
went through and both were heroes
What would have happened If the
throw had been blocked and Pitt
man had fallen on the ball?
They don't always work in that way
however. Sometimes the breaks cd
the other way,
Take the case Of Herb Kempton
Yale quarterback, who took chances
and when they failed he became the
target of assaults from the four corr
ners. Early in the season he was
touted for the all-American team;
now he is called poor.
In the Princeton game Kempton
tried to pull a play that would sur
prise the Tigers. On Yale's Is yard
line, the blonde quarterback called
for laternal pass-a complicated
play involving a double pass and de-,
pending upon pass to hifnself in
full speed for its effect.
Neville took the pass from Gala
han and tossed it wide TO Kempton
who was speeding around Princeton's
right end. Kempton missed it and
Scheerer, the Princeton sub, snatch
ed the ball from the ground and ran
for touchdown winning the game.
Again in the Harvard game, Kemp
ton tried to outwit the Crimson de-.
fense and failed so badly that he was
made to look stupid as field gener-
al In march down the field, Bra
den and Neville had smashed through
Kane, the Harvard tackle, time after
time until Yale had advanced the ball
to Harvard's one yard line. Every
play up to that time had been driven
wedge-like into Kane and he was
badly battered. Kempton evidently
thought the Crimson would mass its
secondary defense behind the weak
place in the line in anticipation Of
another drive at the hole through
which all the Yale advances had been
made. Kempton thought he migh1
take the enemy unawares if he shos
Braden, the big battering ram,
tilrough center. He tried that and
found the whole Harvard team piled
up like big red wall in front of th1
smashing Eli fullback. He couldn't
'lave gone through with a tank.
Kempton was outguessed.
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