Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-01-07

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NEW YOR Anything goes in
football if you get away with it.
The rankest piece of Judgment be-
comes clever stategy and great gen.
eralship when the play goes through.
The quarterback who violates all
the unwritten rules Of the game in
trying to outwit the opposition is
hero when everything connects, But
he's a hopeless boob, crowned with
bone when the attempt fails.
Consider "Chic" Harley, greatest
of western stars and one Of the Won
ders of the modern game.
Harley had a habit of doing the
things that the first lessons of
coaches to green players said not
to do.
But he got by with them in every
case and he's the greatest of the
great.
In the Michigan game with the
ball IN Oh.o's fiften-yard line he
called for a 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 not
knowing any hstter.
One of the most notable examples
of taking chances" occurred in the
Penn State-Pittsburgh game. It was
States ball on her own three-yard
line. Hess dropped back of the goal
line for what according to the un
written law of the game should have
been a desperate point out. But Hess
didn't kick He stood there with
the ball in his hands lodging Pitt
tacklefs. 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
a Pitt man had fallen on the ball?
They don't always work it that
way, however. Sometimes the breaks
go 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 cor
ners, Early in the season he was
touted for the all-Amerlcan 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 lateral pass-a complicated
play involving a double pass and de-
pending upon pass to himself 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,
snatched 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 oadly that he
was made TO look stupid as field
In a march down the field,
Braden and Neville had smashed
through Kane, the Harvard tackle,
time and time until Yale had ad-
vanced 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 might take the
enemy unaware if he shot Braden.
the big battering ram, through CEN
ter. He tried that and found the
whole Harvard team piled up like a
big red wall in front of the smash
ing Eli fullback. He couldn't have
gone through with a tank. Kempton
was outguessed.
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