Evening star., 1933-04-10
NEW COACH ST|RS
REAL ENTHUSIASM
Old Grads Who Have Met
Him Sure He'll Lift Maroon
Eleven From Mire.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.
LARK SHAUGHNESSY ha,

~ LARK SHAUGHNESSY has
1 has been on the Midway
" only short time, but al
ready there is a new en-
thuSiaSm among candidates for
the University of Chicago foot
ball team and such of the alumni
as have met Shag are con-
vinced he will lift the Maroons out
OF the slough in which they have
played for a half-dozen years.
Shaughnessy begets enthusiasm among
young men. The play of his Tulane
and Loyola teams bear out that state
ment. He Is very exacting as to de-
tails, but not at all the Furnishing type
of coach nor one who heps verbal abuse
on his players. He set himself solid
with his players in his talk with the
squad when it reported for the first
Spring practice.
The first thing I want to tell you,"
he began, 'is that 1 am your friend. I
have learned many things during my
% years in foot ball. One is that foot
ball teams are made off the field as
much as they are on. am no person to
be afraid of. Come to me first with
your problems. l mean this
ssvxIE are going to pick out style
w of play that is flexible. that has
variety, speed and deception and
we are going to stick with 1t against
superior bulk. We won't have any set
system. Results will be the measure of
the method.
LET me give you tip. If you can
do anything better than any one else
on the squad, you can't be kept OF the
team. My tendency is toward speciali-
zation. II every one does his specially
in the right way, we won't need bril-
liant team. The fellows who are quar-
terbacks on my team are in for hard
time. I won't have a mechanical quar-
terback I want q man who will know
what to do at every time and every
place and he must be respected by the
whole team"
After looking over your squad.
what type of offense VIII you probably
use?" asked
Probably loose single wing back
formation" Shag replied. Il think we
can get most out of that type Of offense,
but will adapt the system to the play
ers rather than the players to the sys-
tenn. That always has been my method
of coaching"
CHAUGHNESSY will largely discard
y the conventional nomenclature of
10 positions. THE terms, center.
tackle, fullback, ETC., no longer are en-
tirely relevant to the duties of the
players" he explained. 1.-The key man
in the line. heavy fellow who knows
how to drive will be called the pivot
man, playing the equivalent of the
tackle position. He will be fianked by
a heavy guard. One of the guards will
| be chosen for his speed and the other
| tackle must be both fast and heavy.
| The center will be called the ball
snapper because he will not necessarily
| be in the center. One of the ends ac-
tually will be the fifth backfield man. ;"
The ideal backfield according to
| Shaughnessy's ideas will include field
general halfback who is specialist
in broken field running and passing, .
plunger and blocker. "Of course these
men will interchange duties to some ex-
tent" explained Shaughnessy, but I
have yet to see q good plunger who also
is good broken field runner. The
temperament is different"
| COME coach may scoff at Shaugh-
! - nessy's ideas. but they were sue
| cessful at Tulane and Loyola and
should work at Chicago.
Making no promises, no boasts. but
winning the confidence of his players
and alumni, Clark Shaughnessy may
be heading Chicago back to place In
! the gridiron glow