Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-01
PASS DEFENSE
OUTSTANDING AS
SEASON RESULT
Camp Expects to See Much
Development in Aerial
Work This Year.
BY WALTER CAMP
snseiaI Correspondent of Great Falls Trihuns
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New York, Oct. 31.-Already very
important developments have been in
dicated in the seasons football play.
1t is somewhat difficult TO pick out
the one of greatest Importance, but
after close study and reports from
various sections, it is manifest that the
most vital is the development of the
defense to the forward pass.
This was excellently demonstrated
in the Iowa-Yale game at New Haven
in mid October. Howard Jones men
showed a ~deployment of defensive
backs which was SO effective that in
a half dozen attempts by Yale, not one
of the passes was anywhere near com
pleted and three times the passer was
practically compelled to hold the ball
because there was no place where he
could throw it without imminent dan
ger of direct interrogation by ar Iowa
back who stood looking at him and
practically waiting for the ball.
H%urrying Passer important
There are three lines upon which
this defense is based by the modern
team. First, and a cardinal point the
hurrying of the man who is going 10
make the pass. Teams have always
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it has never been carried out thor
oughly before. The writer makes this
statement adYisedly, because on all
sides one hears coaches complaining
when the opponents complete Il for
ward pass against them that their
team did not hurry the passer but gave
him all the time he wanted.
West Point tried to hurry the Notre
Dame passer last year, but ineffect-
lively. Time and again we see ii n
with the ball running around loose,
waiting for his men to get in position
and apparently not very much fius-
tered BY one or two men who are try
ing to prevent his throwing,
No more remarkable instance of this
was ever given than in the game in
which Ohio State defeated Wisconsin
at Columbus n few years ago. when
Workman in the fast few minutes of
the game succeeded in making two
long forward passes TO ~Stincheomb.
which carried the bail from Ohio
States territory over to a touchdown.
They were SO long that Workman was
running back and to the right a long
time to enable Stinchcomb to get well
down the field.
Recalls Centre Hurrying Man
One must 20 TO the Centre-West
Virginia contest of some years & to
find a really effective hurrying of Il
first class, able backfield q West
Virginia had defeated Princeton % to
o, and largely through the ability of
Rodgers, both in the running game
and in making long as well as short
forward passes. Central knew this
and attempted in the first period to de-
fend in the usual way with seven men
in the line and the backfield as well
placed as in judgment could be done.
But Rodgers was too much for them
and West Virginia scored a touchdown
in the first four minutes of play.
Then Centre took the gamblers
chance by sending Roberts up into the
line to hurry Rodgers and depicting
the backfield defense by one man. The
ability of Roberts and the cooperation
Of the other linemen in going through
ers in such Il position that he could
not hold the ball long enough for his
ends to get down the field. He was
therefore confined to short passes.
The second method of defending
against the forward pass, md of
course, this is always coupled with the
hurrying of the passer, is the placing
of the men in the backfield, and this
way as well done by Iowa rs the writ
er has ever seen 1t performed. by
this is meant the placing of the ordi-
nary backfield men. not necessarily the
withdrawal of men from the line.
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The third method of defense is the
reverse of that prncticed by Centre,
and has been used by Harvard. 1t
consists of the withdrawal of linemen
in order to have more men in the back
field. This has been effective against
forward passing to a reasonable degree
but it presupposes that the running
attack of the opponents is not so Sc
we're and 50 varied in its possibilities
as to make this dangerous.
1t would practically permit Of q first
class varied running attack winning a
certain number of yards until the line
stiffencd. In the deployment of men
i'll this fashion, the men who are in
advance positions in the backfieid are
rushed speedily up into the line when
the play develops into a running play.
These three methods of coping with