Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-27
STATE SQUADS
PREPARING FOR
MUDDY FIELDS
HoOsier Coaches Work Men in
Styles Best Suited for
Slippery Gridirons.
IRISH LOSING NO TIME
By HEZE CLARK.

DN HE'LL Ian n
College teams this week are starting
to develop a system of play to be used
on muddy fields and the forward pass
evidently will have a small part in the
style of attack seen on Hoosier gridironr
the coming weekend.
It is well known to football men that
the heavy team hasSthe advantage on
muddy field This is more than true in
the defensive part of the game, but not
always true on Offense. Sometimes
small player, who uses a short stride
and knows the art of keeping his feet,
can cause a big team a lot of trouble Oh
wet, slippery field
The split interference plays and de-
layed passes are the stuff that will be
seen Friday and Saturday on the muddy
gridirOns of the Hoosier State.
While all college teams of Indiana ex-
cept Earlham, viii play this week. all
may not find the field muddy. For ex-
ample Notre Dame meets the Army at
West Point and the weather may not
be in the East what it is in the West.
IRISH To HAVE
DIFFERENT STYLES.
However. it is safe to say that Coach
Rockne will have two STYLES Of Offense
developed at Notre Dame The forward
pass game is the one that the Catholic
athletes have brought to perfection, but
1t is possible that ROckne has given
few extra split interference plays and
just to fool the Cadets if the field hap
pens to be muddy, and the ball wet aud
slippery, making forward passing diff
ficult and dangerous.
Awhile the followers of college football
in indianapolis have their attention CEN
tered on the two games scheduled in
this city Saturday, the Butler GeOrgetown
game at Butler field; and the Indiana
Northwestern game at Washington Park,
still there is Friday game that is being
N11.a hot will he Tala a
Greencastle between DePauw and VAL
paraiso. There is way that the
'.dopesters" can compare the two teams,
for they have not played any of the
same teams, and it would be impossible
to say which might win.
Both De PAW and Valparaiso seem to
have the best team in the history Of the
two schools. Valparaiso has piled up
Notre Dame and Harvard, which teams
defeated the VafpO aggregation.
In both the Harvard and NOtre Dame
games Valpo made its best showing IN
the first half. Valpo held Harvard to a
9 to o score in the first half and NalpO
was lending NOtre Dame by a 3 to
score at the end of the first two periods
The grinding power Of the heavy Harvard
team defeated NalpO in the last two
periods. while Gipp's forward passing
won for NOtre Dame against Valparaiso
in the last half Saturday.
REAL BATTLE
PREDICTED FRIDAY.
De PAW won its game from Franklin
last Saturday, but Coach Thurber's team
fought hard to stop the Tigers. Coach
Buss has a powerful aggregation and De
Paw appears to be the type of team
which would lose little of its scoring
ability because the field was muddy.
YaipO is also 4 heavy team and should
go just as fast on a muddy field as on a
dry gridirOn. Therefore, the game Mt
Greencastle is sure to be one real battle
Friday afternoon.
Purdue and Wabash play at Lafayette
Saturday. Coach Vaughn's team showed
unexpected strength last week by piling
up a 35-to-0 count on Rose Poly. q
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