The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-20
WIDE OPEN GAME FEATURES
FOOTBALL SEASON OF 1894
cophors Rated National Cham
pions; Intricate latorals
Gave Fans Thrills

first incomplete heave over the goal
lire, worked 10 open up the defense,
and resulted in the employment Of
deceptive laterals and forwards by
every major school In the country.
Probably the outstanding coaches
in use Of this new, intricate system
OF football we're Andy Kerr. Of COL
gate, and Bob zuppke, the wrinkle
faced Dutchman Of Illinois.
Kerr's Red Raiders put on q Jug.
Cling act every time they carried the
ball, and finished the season with only
one loss-to Ohio State. Zuppke's
fighting Illinois team, outweighed BY
nearly every opponent It met. took to
the hocus-pocus game like . duck to
water, and came out with that intri-
cate and confusing Flying TrApeSe"
play In which five men handled the
ball before the runner was stopped.
Others who were successful In this
type Of game were Bernie Bierman,
whose Minnesota team employed Z
lateral TO beat Pitt and win the Knute
Rockne national championship trophy;
Frank Thomas, whose Alabama Tide
earned the appointment against STAN
ford in the Rose Bowl: Tiny Thorn
hill, Stanford mentor. and Ray Nor
rison, coach Of that aerial circus from
Southern Methodist.
Fans Like New Game
Football attendance increased Ill
over the country, due to this WIDE
open game, which gave the spectators
. more spectacular contest, and to the
fact that al sectional contests were
nip and tuck affairs right down to the
last whistle.
80 close was the fight In various
circuits that Minnesota and Alabama
were the only two major united and
indicated schools In the country.
In the east. the acknowledged
champion was Pitt, whose lone loss to
Minnesota removed none Of It's pres
tige along the Atlantic seaboard.
Aligned with the Panthers were Navy,
with one loss to Pitt: Temple, with no
losses and ties with Indiana and
Bucknell: Princeton. which lost only
to Yale, and Columbia, q team beaten
only BY Navy.
Here are the results In the remain
Ger Of the conferences:
Big Ten-AGinneDota first. with Ohio
State. with only one loss. Z ll-13 de-
feat ct the hands Of Illinois, second.
Big Six-Kansas State.
Rocky Mountain - Colorado and
Colorado Teachers.
Southwestern-Rice.
West Coast-0tanford, only Z TT
tie with Santa Clara marring its rec
ord, and Washington State. undefeat-
ed In the Pacific Coast Conference,
second.
Southern-Washington and Lee.
Observation-Disclosures.
Coaches Gene and &c
4 couple Of new powers rose in their
might out west when Coach Amos
Alonso Stages little College Of the
Pacific almost beat Southern Califor-
mia and Stanford. and 6pud Lewis
San Francisco University Dons came
within inches Of defeating Stanford,
Santa Clara. and Oregon State.
Several first-year coaches complet.
ed highly successful seasons. Among
them were Jimmy kits, who won the
| Southwestern Conference title IN his
first year ct Rice; Ducky Pond. Who
took Yale to victories over Harvard
and Princeton In his first season: Il.
mer LAyden. who inausurated hts
regime 1t Notre Dame By defeating
lall but Pitt. Navy and Texas: and
Lynn Waldorf. whose Kansas state
Wildcats won the Big Six crown IN hts
first year.
Coaching changes which came 1t
1.-THE end Of the year saw the veteran
Dan Mcdugin resigning from Van
Iderbilt after 30 years: Major Bob Ney.
land leaving Tennessee for Army duty
In Panama: Frank Carideo leaving
Missouri; Dick Hanley stepping out Ut
Northwestern: Navy D0l Ingram
packing up 1t California U favor o
Stub Allison, and Eddie Casey step
ping out ct Harvard.
with the wide-open game In eU.
dence backfield men came Ia for even
greater glory than In past years.
Linemen were pretty well forgotten,
as usual. In the rush 70 acclaim back.
field men. Few were OUTSTANDING o
All.America picking time. but those
who were played sensattonAlly.
Grid Deaths Decline
Football deaths declined during the
lyear, fatalities totaling n, . decline
OF = In thrse years. This indicases