The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-24
PUZZLING PLAY
STILL B0THERS
GRID EXPERTS
Halvard-Centre Series is
OFF; East Wants Visits
Continued
~ DAVIS j. WALsII

SEW YORK. oct. 2I.-T.nro bel
l pol ability. rather rEYo. lus' nt
present that Ccutrc college VIII
come north t1 Sew YORK f.r in
Diy football game in 1913 quite a
,,z.able bit OF monoy Is 10 Dos made
from doing business with 'hs Colo
ueIs. ss Harvard will aitcst. aud
since the crimson ia bound d. agree
mout 20 drop lniorzoctonal games
Manhattan feels that it o. tho log
ical gate.
II Centre could draw moro than
VI Centre could draw moro thru ii'
U.s. thousand OF tho stadium. " would
most certainly ull tho new stand
NJ Tho New york Yankees 20 iia So
200 capacity and rich golden mar
vest FOR all concerned would be the
gratifying result.
some Of its alumni would like to
Huve Columbia or cornell figure Ha
tho partv Of the second part iu 'hla
transaction and the ,MOruingnldn out
III. having local appeal. would NOT
hc Cd bad box. office bet provided
10 can muster something better than
scond -cils- football uoNt fall
study PuIlling play.
Football experts of the east wore
.ull studying today tho puUliug lock
zen fhIn employed 10y tho doughty
eleven foh Centre college, Dam
,ll.. ky.. which lost 10 Harvard az
cambridge saturday. "a 90 80.
should II be taken up and employed
widely. critics arc wondering how
the rules would be affected by such
hits.
uut N tho idea should tud popu-
Iar favor and be widely used by q
number OF teams II scmes probable.
according 10 reports thnt the rules
committee win be asked 10 tako
ougnizance OF n and. perhaps. be
asked TO place "a time limit on the
completion OF such shifts. A. tho
rules now stand Centre could have
marched back and forth until the
whistle blew-though II would have
been poor policy for losing team.
East Fond OF Centre.
The cast has become fond OF Con-
re. It's slnshing team aud It's rebel
veil and II an observer were 1udg-
ing from what he saw aud heard IN
iho stadium Saturday he would be-
leve that half of DiNieland had
urned out To see its team In action.
And though Harvard, Yale and
Princeton have mutually agreed TO
discontinue International contests. II
yeoma probable that Centre will be
asked To come east aguin.
Reports today were that Cornell,
Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown and
several other colleges were anxious
TO meet tho Praying Colonels next
year either In Now York or Bos-
ltn. probably In New York. to dcdi-
4 ass
tadium, which will he completed
ieNt spring.
As used by the southcrucrs Satur-
iay. II was In conformity with cs-
tablished regulations. including tho
new clarified rule on short plays
which has been made sufficiently
clear by the rules committee OF tho
intercollegiate Football Hssucia iiuu
To be universally interpreted to pre-
vent all but one man on the at
lacking team being IN motion before
the ball In passed. Those who saw
the Harvard Centre game know tho
iockslep Is effective even II they
aren't quite clear why It should be
more demoraliSing 10 team on the
defense than, the moro common
SHIFT plays arc.
Freak Performance
Being new, II had the element OF
.urprise, not only 70 tho spectators
but to the Harvard team, which re-
quired a number OF plays TO accus'
tom itself 20 the strange sight OF
. whole team marching, hand on
the shoulder ana In the approved
Sing Sing style and then troopine
back before tho ball was snapped.
The one objection raised against
the lockstep shift seems to be tn,
time II requires, particularly wher
tho quarterback adds an extra
figure To his signals and the whol'
teams fronts and "right-abouts'
with the precision of a troop oi
circus Zouaves.
Now that the play has beer
shown. Il will probably bo less of
tectlye when used again.