Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
RUMOR Of CHANGE
I IN YALE'S SYSTEM
Declared That Ellis Plan to
Depend More on Speed,
Less on Power.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.


X guide appears and, even with
Il preliminary practice more than
two months away the old grads
already are talking of the gridiron
game.
Stevens, with Walsh of Notre Dame as
his line coach, is going to scrap the
accepted Yale system and go in for
wing backs, putting more stress on
speed and less on power. 1t is said
that Sam Willaman, at Ohio State, with
Don Miller of the old Four Horsemen
as a backf1eld coach, also is going IN
for speed and timing, with all backs
carrying the ball, instead OF certain
of them being trained almost wholly as
interferers.
This is a fine system, if you have the
men for it and can get the necessary
perfection of timing. Ohio State is said
to have extremely fast backfeld ma
terial and men who can be made into
speedy interfering guards. Willaman
apparently plans to use this speed to
capacity.
Team Play Big Thing.
As a matter of fact, it makes little
difference what type of attack you use
in foot ball If every man does his job
ANY play will go II each of the IL
men involved carries out his assign
menu peileeh!. PeiAoNUAJ LneSuVSS
play is impossible to stop without
certain gain. If 1t is a good play.
long gamer, and every man does his
full job, the result must be touch
down.
That might grow monotonous, but
fortunately for the suspense, ii men
rarely function perfectly. Ten may 90
eleventh makes a mistake, or Is up
against too strong an adversary, and
some one breaks through and smears
the play. Foot ball is team game
and, like a chain, team is only as
strong as it's weakest link.
know of no sport which has a
greater hold on those interested in 1t.
4 foot ball fanatic will talk the sport
- months year and argue his theories
to the bitter end. And it is one game
where the amateur stands high in In
terest above the professional. There
are at the present time about 45O col
leees listed In the foot ball guide. and
the high schools, preparatory schools
and grammar schools where the game
Is played are almost countless.
Will Test Instinct.
It is a natural thing for men or
bows to kick a foot ball. They have
PLAYED some form of game in which
an inflated or rubber sphere was used
for thousands of years. taking kick
at a foot ball would appear to be
instructive. -,
am about to experiment with TINS
theory. DELFT J. Akeley, who leads her
own safari through the dark places OF
Africa, who shot one OF the bull ele-
nhants which now stands in the New
York Natural History Museum, and VINO
is the only white woman in the world
who ever has seen the okapi, that mys-
FERROUS animal which looks like sor-
rowful, long-legged moose calf, with
bat ears and white shin guards on It's
legs, is about to go on another expeol-
ton.
Mrs Akeley has promised me that she
will take with her a foot ball, and that
when she reaches the great 1turl 1oreSC
in the Belgian Congo. she will innate
the spheroid and give 1t to the pygmleS,
observing and reporting what they 90
with it. believe these pygmies are
called by the tribe name OF Bambuti,
so one might refer to them as the
little Bans, to different1ate them from
Mr.. Ruth, the big Banl.
Thanks to the product Of Henry Ford.
certain parts of Africa are now as per-
meated by Caucasian culture as the
backWoods of America, but Mrs. AKeley
with few native bearers reaches places
where DIX caravans CduIOL W. AZ
British. East Africa, for instance, am |
told that the Waganda natives already |
kick foot balls around with their bare |
feet. but to the little Bans foot ball |
of any description will be a brand new
article I am anxious to know what
they will find in 1t in the way OF sport.
Not Exactly Sportsmen.
They are not exactly sportsmen. as
they have a habit of creeping up on
birds or beasts and, with their bows
and arrows. shooting them sitting, but
they have the play instinct. Mrs. Axe
ley taught them to skip rope, using the
lianas, or monkey vines, for that pur-
pose, and they became so excited that
they would stop skipping to sock each
other over the head with the skipping
rope.
Give them empty bottles and an UNI
pire and they should make great base
ball fans.
But Della j. Akeley believes that she
can teach them the essential purpose OF
a foot ball, and, in spite Of the fact that
they are not noted for their intelligence,
I believe she can. A woman who can
put a hair net on an African sultan,
and make him like 1t, should be able to
do anything.
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