Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-04
INDIANA TEAM
GROOMED WE'LL
FOR TRIP EAST
|. u. Appears About as Strong
as Last Year as Harvard
Game NearS.
QUARTER JOB DOUBTFUL
By HEZE CLARK,

STAFF Correspondent of The Times.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Oct. with
Harvard as Indiana's next opponent
every follower of the grid sport wants to
know what kind Of a football team Coach
e. o. Stiehm has developed at Blooming
ton this year. The Harvard Indiana affair
to be fought out at Cambridge, Mass,
Saturday is attracting nation wide atten-
ton. Indiana has met some of the best
Eastern teams in other years, but this is
the first time that the Hoosiers have
ever made an eastern trip.
With the Franklin and Kalamazoo
games tucked away by safe scores all
attention is turned to the Harvard game
The Indiana coaching staff has a world
of work to do in preparing the Hoosiers
for that big battle. The efforts of the
coaches will not be directed so much on
the team as a whole, but to improving
the play OF men filling certain posi-
lions.
1t is well known at Bloomington that
the Harvard back field is wonderfully
fast, and that the end running ability
of the Eastern backs will cause the In
diana wing men a lot Of worry ana work.
Harvard also has one of the strongest
and best coached lines of any team in the
country. This means d smashing attack.
However, when the eastern team meets
Indiana they will find the Hoosier line,
tackle TO tackle, far stronger, heavier
the Centre College line last year. Indiana
Is not overlooking the educated toe of
Charlie Buell., the Harvard quarter back,
who won the Holy Cross game with
drop-kick last year and again this sea
son with a similar field goal The In
diana line is being coached to hurry the
kick
FIVE ASSISTANTS
HELPING STIEHM.
Coach Stiehm has five men who are
helping in the coaching department and
each man has certain work 10 do that
Will help In smoothing the Indiana
grid machine for the Harvard battle. As
sisting Stiehm are h. Minton, Jesse
Fields, Lester Null, George Lewis and
John Dawson. The last-named was one
one of the most famous lineSmen who
ever played at Indiana, being guard on
the powerful 1905 team. and later play
ing tackle at Wisconsin University.
The game against Coach YOungs hala-
mazoo College eleven did not tell the
story of the real strength of Indiana.
The team went onto the field under or
ders not TO open, up or use forward
pass play Coach Young guessed that
order had been issued, for he had spot
ted" a half dozen former Harvard play
ers whom he had known in the East ana
who were watching Indiana from various
points on the bleachers. Young knew
that Indiana would never uncork an
aerial attack and he planned his defense
accordingly. He frightened up his second
line defense until IL recalled the style or
defense used back in 1903, the last sea
son before the forward pass was intro
duced. The Kalamazoo defense was stub
born. and never has a little college team
fought harder against big university
eleven than did the pluCky Michigan ag-
gregation. but the power of the Indiana.
attack could not be halted by Coach
Young's men. This spoke well for the
ii ~ - n
The greatest fault with the Indiana
team was the tendency or some OF the
men to tumble the ball A horrible ex-
ample Of this occurred early in the game
Saturday when one Of the four men used
by Indiana at the quarter back job FUN
bted The tumble reminded the critic Of
the type OF fumbling often seen In high
ychool games. The quarter back caught
he started to run. He IS fast
and It was evident that he imagined
he was so fast that he could run
back. fumbling the ball on the six
yard line. He caught the ball on the
twelve-y yard line. The Kalamazoo end fell
on the bail. II this had happened IN the
Harvard game II would have been pres
ent Of a touchdown 10 Harvard. There
IN the Central West Ia the last twenty
years who have been fast enough to run
back after catching a punt and then be
reasonably sure Of regaining the ground
and getting away with long run.
Neither Of these two speed merchants
have been at Indiana and # is on return
ing punts that the Indiana back held men
need lot Of work. To be sure kalama
700 did not score. The Michigan team
lacked the power against that stone wall
defense Of the BlOomin gton team, but the
fact that Coach Youngs men failed to
score was not because they aid not get
the chance given them by a tumble made
by q back field man who ran back In
the direction OF the goal line he was de-
Tending Running I'm the wrong direc-
ton won't work against veteran ends like
Harvard has this season, and It Is a
sure bet that the coaches VIII tell the
Indiana backs a whole lot Of things this
week.
BIG HOLE IS
AT QUARTER.
Indiana has big problem to I'LL the
hole left by Mathys at quarter. The
other In6iana back field men on straight
football showed all that could be asked
on defense, but at times failed TO break
up a rather clever aerial attack of Kala-
mazoo. Harvard, however, has never been
famous for the overhead forward passing