The Washington herald., 1921-12-04

should listen to. 1t is to rotate the
games, instead of having Yale -Har-
| vard always last on the list. With
one playing Princeton a week be-
fore the fnal game. and the other
| resting by putting subs into a
smaller game. the last game is al
ways one sided. Princeton really
| beat Yale for Harvard. Big Bill
Edwards says, because the Yale
team was stale after it's battle with
the Tigers and Harvard was fresh.
| 1t would be better. since there is
nothing 10 choose In Glass" be-
| tween these three, to rotate the
/ schedule year after year. shifting
| the positions OF the three big
| games,
Eastern football is without a
champion this year. although Penn.
state seems to have the best team,
and Lafayette ranks next. Both Of
these colleges are playing a more
advanced game of football than any
in the Big Three" which is a
somewhat new situation. Besides
that. Princeton lost to Chicago. 30.
Out near the Middle Western
section Notre Dame hss been show
ing some championship football,
and on an Eastern invasion beat
the Army by a score of $50. and
Rutgers $50. Notre Dome plays
modern football-the most modern
there 10.
One of the Notre Dame backs.
August Desch. looks like an all
American. He is fast as a streak
and handles the forward pass with
machine-gun accuracy. He doesn't
wear any pads in his football uni
form-wears a loose. light Jersey
so that his arms will be as free as
a baseball pitchers, light mole
skins and light shoes-everything
else sacrificed for speed
1 In fact pads are not worn at
Notre Dame at all. The team goes
sence OF the game, just as II Is in
many other Western colleges.
West strong on Pass.
Iowa's big team, Middle Western
champion, plays the latest style of
football. combining a strong line
with a perfect air attack and great
| speed. 1t was too strong for Notre
Dame-which indicated much class.
Since last New Years day. when
the University of California over
whelmed Ohio In Pasadena, the
Bears have attracted "a lot of at
tention in foot ball circles. Last
| years team was a marvel on the
Coast. but this year California has
an even more powerful scoring ma
chine. averaging about forty points
a game for the season, and against
good active opponents.
Men on other teams gave Cali
fornia the name Wonder Team
and said that the California line
1 was impenetrable and Irresistible.
| Probably California could give any
team in the country a battle this
year. The overhead game has been
developed more nearly to perfection
there than in any other college in
America.
In last New Years game with
Ohio State the first California for
ward pass was shot straight into
r Muller's hands--a sixty-yard toss
from California territory to where
Muller stood waiting with his heels
carefully placed inches from the
Ohio goal line.
And here's a story about Muller
that isn't known in the East. He,
by the way. is one of the greatest
all around athletes in America. He
clears six feet 4 and one-half inches
in the high jump. twenty-three feet
in the broad jump and throws the
discus about 140 feet. No wonder
in football he can throw a forward
pas. as well as tear down the field
to receive one.
Early this season Muller broke
his leg. He was out Of football
and had little chance to play again
this year. But when California
played the University of Southern
California Muller went on the field
in one period to throw a couple OF
forward passes. He threw from far
behind the California line, pro-
; tected by a pair of husky team
mates because it wouldn't do to let
h,m be bumped over. with his leg
just out of a plaster cast
Muller heaved a 60-yard forward
pass that connected properly for q
40-yard gain. Again the teams
lined up, and with the threat OF
another Muller pass the play was
shifted and California scored a
touchdown through the line.
1t isn't often a football players
leg IL taken out of a cast to let
him play. But YOU can expect any
thing in modern football.
\ Years ago none would have ex-
pected a college with less than 800
students to show much form.
Centre came into the northland last
year intending to trim Harvard, and
was cleaned up by the big red
team. Centre played fast open
game. and was crushed by Har-
wards powerful line. This year
Harvard expected Centre to toss the
forward pass and use open play,
and Centre showed up with line
fcrushing bunch that outplayed
| Harvard at her own game: using
modern passing and open play only
/