The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01

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 And probably some time during the course of the discussion some- body will pipe in with And How ard Jones-he's good, too"
 Good, too? Well, maybe if he would sweep out the locker rooms after the games he might be lit- tie more useful around the place. But after watching the devilish mockery his football team enacted before a pop-eyed Notre Dame line and backfield, this correspondent is almost inclined to believe he's just a little better than good, too."
 Jones maybe good, too," but the team that plays in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Years Day had better take along some- body like Thurston, now that Sig nor Houdini is not available in the flesh. The visiting firemen are going to come out of that one with what Mir Sweeney would call a hang over.
 Huddle Short and Sweet
 The Jones team at South Bend was the best coached team I ever have seen. This was demonstrated clearly not only from the stand point of the sleight-of- work ed in the shifts, but from the way each man went through his own particular part of the parlor trick cry assigned to him.
 They huddle. But the huddle hardly has been formed than 1t be- gins to turn, like a pinwheel on the Fourth of July. It remains hud- dle, with the units running around in ring-around-a-rosy fashion. It's enough to make the observe in the stands dizzy let alone the men out there who play against the Jones juggernaut (Think of the saving you can make on fack-demurrage spectators.)
 After the pinwheel of men has stopped revolving, three waves of bodies attired in football suits en- erge from 1t. They form in three lines, then "hip!" again, and they are into line and backfield. But not the kind of line and backfield to which the effete east is accustomed to seeing. The whole thing is un- balanced. It's almost what you might call irrational.
 The tackle called upon to defend himself against this shifting wave might find himself playing opposite Wilfred Zilch on one play and Mor- timer Abercrombie on the next as- sault.
 Guards Bewildered
 Al various stages of the South Bend mystery play, the Notre Dame ~..o .1a ,.o,,ot h un foind thepnqelVqq wondering if, after all. couple of other fellows were playing guard for Notre Dame, and they were really ends.
 The Jones system of gridiron leg erdemain is the Rockne system, the Warner system, the Houdini sys- tenn and a couple of snappy ges- lures thrown in by Aimee Semple McPherson. It Is as hard to figure out what the next play is to be as it Is to guess how your next-door neighbor ever happened to be elect ed Alderman. It wouldn't surprise me to see those TroJans suddenly break out into a frenzy of hand kerchief waving.
 There are those double shifts, the Notre Dame shift, the Warner sin gle and double-wing back forma- tions balanced and unbalanced lines spinners, reverses and double reverses. You could take the whole thing, stir it up, mix well with four parts of forward passes and find yourself with a handy recipe for getting out of ait-jackets.
 The shifts are all executed swift ly, leaving the defensive linemen precious little time to dope out what is about to happen. To be brutally frank, the word that best describes the startling suddenness with which these shifts take place is "kaleidoscopic."
 This speed effectively hides the direction of the maneuver. I saw fighting Irish getting themselves all set to fight some end runs when forward passes were the intention. They became groggy watching the variety of the attack.
 Coaching A years.
 Notre Dame beat the Trojans last year. Jones thought up new tricks. Ten years ago, as coach at Iowa, he did the same thing, and beat Notre Dame eleven that had won 22 straight games. Hunk An derson was q guard on that Irish team, so peTHhpS you Sdh uiuVi stand why he said after the defeat of the 1881 Irish that 'Notre Dame has not forgotten how to lose." Jones is a great fellow to remind folks how to lose.
 Jones has been coaching for "A years since leaving Yale and he has made trouble in every part of the country. I n his seven years at Southern California his teams have won 61 games, tied two and lost 10. And in the last four years Pop Warmers warriors at Stanford have scored just 12 points against the Trojans.
 The team that plays against the Trojans New Years day really ought to take along some tam bourines, saxaphones, etc. There is a possibility they may find relaxa- tion between the halves with little music, after the ordeal of
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