The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-29

Tho good football team In the old
days had a line that stood like a
stone wall' on tho defense and
moved like a steam roller when ad.
vancing the ball. Tho player who
could settle his number II shoes
into the mud and hoayc hard enough
TO turn over n loaded truck was tho
bird who wore the golden football
on his watchchaln at the end OF the
season.
open play and forward passing
have changed all this. Modern foot
ban eliminated the big beety player
several years ago. For n time only
fast men Of medium size and weight
were considered as good team mate
rial.
But lntely the coaches have been
busy digging up all the fast, big
men they can find. Szo is an asset
when speed In combined with It.
As boys are growing bigger all
over tho country now because OF
schoolboy athletic sports there are
many llnesmon on college teams
who would compare well in aize
with the bulkier heroes or former
days.
Boxing Champ on Harvard Team.
Football coaches like to got men
who have had experience In boxing,
wrestling and other sporta. because
these men usually have speed and
know how TO handle themselves. A
good boxer makes n good football
player. Harvard expects 10 have "a
star tackle this year in Charlie East
man, who was ineligible last season.
Eastman IL naryard'e heavyweight
boxing champion.
A big man who isn't active cant
make any college team. Tho for
ward pass has added n lot Of run
ming to football. Tackles weighing
200 pounds are expected to show
as much speed down the field as
the ends.
Among the notable big men now
playing an college teams n Jim Me-
Mahon, the Penn State right tackle.
lnchea tall and weighs 200
pounds. Very few gains are made
by opposing teams through the right
side OF the Penn state line. Ac-
cordlng 90 the pedigree credited to
Mcmahon at Penn state, he In half
Indian, But the men who meet him
on the gridlron say he's 'an indian
and a half"
No section OF the country has any
monopoly OF big men. although
Washington ana oregon probably
develop more six f0Oters than any
other state Big men are common
In the prairie country, too, along
tho Mississippi
Iown's Giants Smashed Yale.
when ] saw the iowa team beat
Yale this month / was struck by the
expression that the Iowa men were
all big and square shouldcred, Iowa
had two COrkiuE big tackles In En-
gledingcr and Thompson. Last year
Thompson ana Duke Slater Of Iowa
were rated two OF the best tackles
In the country.
Slater. a colorcd player, had enor-
nous hands ana long arms, ana was
fast runner Oftcn he would catch
tho man running with the ban,
reach out one big hand take n grin
on some part OF hts uniform. and
pull him back.
Thompson is feet "a Inches tall
and weighs 2O7. EnRledinger ~ even
bigger, weighing 212 pounds. Those
two giants ado remarkably last,
They not only SINAI shed holes In the
Yale line 20 let the backs through,
but Were an over tho field making
tackles with the ends,
u was chiefly tho work of Slater
and Thompson, with DeNlue and
Locke, the -plunging Hawkeye
back, that won the Western Confer
ence championship for Iowa last
year. Iowa went through the sea-
son without losing n game, and for
good measure took on an outside
game with NOtro Dame ana gave the
South Bend team ils first football
beating in three years.
Herbert Treat OF Princeton s. an
other big man, lie was great
tackle at Boston college before he
went 20 Princeton. That was in
1920. Last year he couldn't 20 out
for the Tiger team because of the
one year rule
Herbert Treat Is 6 feet az
inches tall ana weighs 1876