San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
speed FIRST :
! PROCUREMENT
ON GRID NOW
Old Slow, Weighty Teams
Don't Fit Into Modern
Football Scheme.
SOME STARS TO WATCH
Speed Demons Of the Grid
iron Are Plentiful at
s. Big Colleges. ~
SOME STARS TO WATCH
By ROBERT EDGREN.

giant is over. Beef has given way to
speed. Youths who travel over the
rridirou with the speed of deer are
the ones who make" the team. LIE
player with both speed and weight rs
\ valuable find, but he must first OF
all have fleetness of foot.
A team nowadays cannot advance
fast enough with slow beefy players.
The successful modern offense must
employ wide formations and a clever.
ly-masked aerial attack. 1t takes speed
TO execute them and the side with the
greatest speed invariably WINS.
More and more football coaches are
raidiug track squads for recruits. NC:
only the backs but linesmen as wei
must possess sprinting ability. Track
men are usually reluctant to play
football. fearful Of injuring their legs.
But a little persuasion does wonders
and there are few elevens now that 10
not boast of att east one notable track
star.
An sorts of coaching tricks are be-
ing used to speed up football squads.
Coach Rockne at Notre Dame ordered
MI candidates for the varsity to take
dancing lessons. He declared success
full foot work would increase the
teams speed. Evidently Rocknes novel
pl in worked, reports from South Benz
saving Notre Dame this'year has one
Of the speediest elevens in its history
KOppisch Has Speed.
This seasons crop of gridiron stars
will contain a majority of speed spe-
cialists. One Of the brightest prospects
is Walter Koppisch, Columbia cap
tain. Koppisch holds several cham
pionships for the 40" Even in foot
ball uniform he's fast as rabbit.
In 1922 Koppisch did yeoman serv
ice on the gridiron although the Blu.
and White team was lamentably weah
and slow. No matter how fast anc
. clever. a back can't gain when HI:
, line fails to hold and his opponents
, sift through to nail him before start
, ing. That's what happened to kot'
pisch most of the time last season.
When Percy Haughton took charge
at Columbia this year one of the first
, things he did was to organize better
. support for Koppisch. Unless the Co
. lumbia eleven is another sieve Its cap
. tain should be one of the outstanding
: stars this year.
Yale has pair of speed maryels IN
O'Hearn and Neale. OHearn is one
of the most dangerous open field run
ners in the country. He has hlgh
( stepping stride that frequently folls
, expectant tacklers.
/ Remember seeing O'Hearn at his
| best two years ago against Prince
ton. Yale was on the Tigers eighteen
yard line. O'Hearn made a feint to
/ buck the center. The Princeton. right
! end dashed in blindly. Seeing his
nfIIoarr. naat1u twisted
1 around the incoming end and then
fairly daced his way through the
! Princeton backfield for a touchdown
1 thar won the game.
! BarcIiet and Hammond Fast.
! The United States Naval Academy
has in Barchet a running marvel who
seldom fails to gain. Barchet is short
and round. He runs full speed al
the waiting tackler and just wher
about to be tackled slips to one side
Raised on an adjacent Marylanc
farm, Barchet was a star the very
first game he played for the Middies
sThis season the Navy flash Should
ioutdo all previous efforts.
( Harvard usually manages to produce
IN speed sensation. While at Harvard
\ Haughton developed Eddie Mahar
and Eddie Casey and the Crimson
;opponents will testify these young mel
could run with a football.
For the last three years Georg'
sOwen was Harvard's scoring ace
Weighing nearly 100. Owen coui.
move along with the speed of sprin
champion. Z Each season Owen wa
mainly responsible for Harvard win
ming the game with Yale. This yea
I the Crimson is without the services o
Owen and other backfield stars bu
Coach Fisher trots out Jack Ham
mond. star of his freshman team, VIII
only cot in late during the 1922 cam
paign. Tall and rugged, Hammonl
promises to uphold the Harvard trad
ton of producing some of the great
est performers in the strenuous gamt
In addition to running, Hammond thi
year is likely to be one Of the leadin
kickers in the country.
Kipke Michigan's Star.
Not all the speed maryels exercis
in The East. Other sections will de
yelop their own shining stars this sea
son. One of the most promising run
ners in the West is Harry Kipke 1
Michigan. This youth comes near b.
ing complete baekfield himself.
Reviewing the Michigan stars 1872
record. Walter Ecsersall says: "Kips
was the shining light of the Michiga
attack. There is hardly anything O
the football field this player canno
do and do little better than mo,
men who occupy one Of the backfiel
positions. He was a tower OF strengt
Extensively. for he could skirt the end
dash off the tackles and execute 70
'ward passes with proper deception.
Kipke leads the Wolverines tn
season and Michigan's hopes are mo
/ ing skyward.
Centre should live up to past pc
/ formanees and flash one of the Sc
: sons stars. The little Kentucky CO
lese. after producing "Bo" McMill
/, and Red Roberts. is now ready Wi
a new bid for fame. Covington
f, quarterback. The newcomer stepp'
[, INTO McMillin's shoes surprising
+. we'll. He and Roberts did most
: Centres gaining last year. Covingtt
is not only dangerous open fie
u IL a Ill fo1 n