Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-27

HOOkS
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waiter camp WdS onc VI iHS
first football heroes to have his
picture taken as he sat with a
football under his manly arm on
the Yale fence. Pictures OF football
players seated on that dear old
fence have become a tradition at
Old Eli.
And today perhaps such photo
graphs are more than a tradition.
For Yale has adopted q flock OF
football systems this year that
seem 10 need nothing Sc much
as a card-index TO keep them
straight. The yale quarterback this
wear will have TO be q better mar
than prof. Einstein, or he Will be on
the fence all the time.
Let us suppose 1t Is Oct. IL. Yale
has come TO Chicago to play an
eleven schooled by an old yale
hero, Alonzo A. Stage.
1t is the last quarter. Yale mas
the ball on the Maroon 25-yard me.
the score is nothing up and the
Midway rooters are shouting,
Hold 'em, Chicawgoi"
what to DO?
Yale goes into q huddle.
I'm going to call that flat pass
that Coach Benny Friedman taught
u.s." pipes up Able Booth. It'll
fool everybody"
Hold IN. fellow" rumbles Pat
Sullivan, veteran fullback, none
OF that new-fangled stuff now.
Let's have some OF that Of line
football that Tad Jones gave Yale
In the old days. 1t used TO win !
1899 and it can win now"
At this point Hans Flygare, an
end, breaks in with:
Hey. Booth, remember that
end-out stuff that Charley Com
erford taught us? That would be
a .lulu right now. IL seems to me-
Irish InterIude
Halfback Joseph Patrick Crow
ley becomes impatient now. Through
clenched teeth, he mutters:
Booth, you know good and
well none of that stuff will work
This is first down. Do you re-
member what Coach Bucky O'Con-
nor told us about what Frank
Carideo used to call at Notre
Dame last year on first down in
enemy territory? Let the backs
shift right. Send the lc half
through right tackle preceded by
a guard to knock { the second
airy. What have we got Notre
Dame men coaching us for. II
we're not going TO Use Notre
Dame plays?"
Booth rubs his chin ~reflectively.
Then: n.
"WeIl. now. let's see. We could
use that Michigan pass OF Fried
mans but Stagg has been coach
ing in the Big Ten for years and
Did You Know That
Some old friends have bobbed
I'D at West Point this year..
now that footballs here.
there's Chuck Broshous.. .
played two years at the Uni
versity of Kansas Travis
Brown. who spent three years
At Alabama Poly where he
PLAYED a bit OF football. and
aCowboy" Elliott who played
two years at Lehigh, winning a
letter. ken Fields. the for
| mer University OF Illinois quar-
terback, Is sim at West Point.
due TO graduate in 1888. Bill
Frentzel, also one OF Zuppke's
boys, Is a No. 3 back at the
Point again this year We'll.
WE'LL and Spinner Herb. who
played five years at Medford.
Mass. high school and two
years at Colgate. Spinner will
be around for a while yet. too,
graduating in 1888. maybe.
he knows that play backwards.
Therefore the team must know II,
too.
eAbout that Notre Dame shift.
There is some difference OF opin-
ion about its origin, but Rockne
himself used to say he got II
from Stagg. Nope, ! don't think
you could work that n on a
Stagg-coached eleven.
"Now remember, men. Stage is
an old Yale man himself. and he
knows old style Yale football like
q book. We can't pull any OF that
on a Stagg team. Let me think a
minute"
And while little Able is think
ing the whistle blows and the
game Is over. score 0 10 0.
Boola. Boola. Bow-wow-wowi