Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-11
IN
SOUTH GAINS,
YOST STATES
Passes Are Said To
Be Becoming Part
Of Regular Plays
With All Elevens
BY FIELDING III. YOST
director Athletics, u. OF Michigan.)
ANN ID MI ~. ~ I'm.

NDtftttof AthicttGos u. VI siitui@dH+t
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 10.-tP
Use Of the forward pass as a play,
not as a threat only, widespread rec
ignition that good football teams are
an inherent part of each section of
the United States. a slight increase
IN fumbling, and an unusually strong
showing By Southern teams furnish
ed the high lights Of the first month
Of the football season. The period
also developed. as 1T usually does, in
dications of strength in n few or sew
eral teams in the different sections
Of the country.
Forward passing has been an in
tegral part of football play in the
central west for many years, but this
year the pass has taken O place with
punting in the play of all teams of
the country. On the third Saturday
IN October. nine ~touchdowns were
made by Western conference teams
by use Of the forward pass. On the
same day. for the first time in his
tory, Army beat Harvard. Forward
passes accounted for the t~ouchdowns.
Nave, who learned his passing at a
central west college (Ames), being I
part Of both the pass plays. Dart
mouth, first gaining note with the
pass IN the days Of Oberlznder, con-
tinues to use the pess brilliantly
while Brown proved a determined. If
ineffective opponent Of Yale By vir-
tue Of the fling. Georgia Tech. on
the same Saturday. ended the Notrc
Dame string Of victories over South
ern teams by two pass initiatcd
touchdowns.
IL would be interesting to take the
statistics Of ONE twenty Of the hard
or fought November games % deter
NINE u the same proportion Of scor-
ing passes are used i'm what are
called the tltular and critical battles.
IL has long been my contention
that the United States has too many
good football players to select any
eleven as m All-American team. Ii
was last year that the first All-Amer-
ican was chosen from the South. The
southwest has never been honored bv
such a selection. Following these
Two statements, consider the follow
ing October scores: Georgia Tech
~, Notre Dame o; Vanderbilt 13.
Texas II; A. a. NJ. 60 Sewanee o;
Army ~, Southern Methodist iS:
Princeton o. Virginia o; Navy S
Duke q. South Carolina 8. Chicago
9. All scores Of this years games
and most distinctly show that foot
ball ability is as widespread in lands
~ cotton and cattle as in New Eng
land.
The year IS proving "a past wears
have that football technique and foot
ball ability is not a matter az eli
mate or of section. Interchange Of
ideas and coaches has spread the
games knowledge "a every corner
and It has been proved that the
Texan and Oklahoman. the soft spok-
en- and hard muscled boys from Lou
lsiana and the youngsters Of the old
South are just as good a football
player as those Of any other section.
h slight increase in fumbling
can oe laid to more attempts u han
die punts, the fear that "old man
touchdown would make his apppar-
ance through a riscue having been
eliminated by the changed rules.
hile some few teams have shown
strongly in the early games ID IL my
impression that none OF the teams
TINS year are rs far away from the
crowd rs m previous years. On the
west coast. the three leaders were
selected early with other southern
teams Of California. Stanford and
Southern California. winning from
The strong northern teams. In the
Big Ten, the three western teams
Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. with
Ohio from the eastern part. stand ont
In the South, Georgia, Georgia
Tech, Tennessee and Vanderbilt have
shown impressively with South Car
DINA making an unusually strong
showing. The east has its best tears
apparently at Yale. Dartmouth. the
Army and Pennsylvania.
The long month Of November will
test most Of these teams and decide
whether any have claim to the MYTH
zeal honor Of national champion Of
this country's wide flung football
borders.