The Washington times., 1935-01-03

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Charles D. Carter, the Che
Welch is a welcome visitor a
meetings of the indian Bureau
and his few statements carry g
vast deal Of weight. He is per
forming an outstanding service fol
teh Indians at Haskell School.
Talks Of Old Days
We were sitting at dinner the
other night when the old Carlisle
Indian teams came under discus
sion. WEIGH played over some oi
the colorful gridiron battles of his
career at the school and ther
made the startling statement that
Warner first used the double wins
back formation in 1918 and that
it was first launched against the
Dartmouth team of 1918, the In
dianS winning that game by a
score Of IS to 10 after trailing al
the end of the first half.
Football histOrianS,have writ
ten many stories about the
double wingback formation"
said Welch over the steaming
coffee cups. "They have said
that the formation first was
used at Pitt in 1916 and later
developed when Pop Warner
went to Stanford.
"This is not true. The double
wmgback formation first was
used against Dartmouth in the
Polo Grounds Of 1913, and in
the second half.
GREAT PASSING ATTACK
There was q football game"
said Welch. Dartmouth had
been winning its games by wide
margins. They had q wonderful
fOrward-passing attack, and had
. couple Of boys who could
throw the ball half the length
Of the field. We were pretty
good at passing the ball our
selves. We also had a fine rum
ming attack.
II remember that Pop was
worried over the Dartmouth
aerial game. We had a long
discussion, and cOntended
that il Dartmouth threw any
passes more than 20 yards, 1
had as good a chance of inter-
cepting them as they did of
completing them. Warner was
not so sure I was right, but
he hoped I was. and told me so.
Before the game 1 told the
backs to take care of their
territory and leave the long
passes to me. / had the right
dope all right, for 1 intercepted
those paSses-l guess half a
dozen Of them, and knocked
down good many more.
TON OF MONEY BET
"There was a ton of money
bet Oh that game, and some
friends Of Pop wagered heavily
on the Indians who were the
short enders. Dartmouth went
out and got a touchdown in the
first half and added field goal
to that. The odds heightened,
for q lot of folks thought the
Indians would become diScOur-
aged when the score was
against them. We heard after
the game that the men who
came down with us sent in the
checks between halves.
Pop Warner didn't come in
to the dressing room between
the halves" Welch continued.
''He wanted us to get mad,
and he succeeded. I waited for
him to come in, but the umpire
blew the whistle and I jumped
to my feet. I was captain of
the team. I called upon those
boys to fight as Indians should
fight, to beat that Dartmouth
team.
USES NEW FORMATION
eve went out on the field
and when we got the ball
called for the new formation.
We had been fOOling around
with 1t on the campus trying
out plays. 1 saw that by using
. balanced line we could use
all Of our stuff and 1 let the
boys run.
"JOe GuyOn and Peter Calac
were my power backs with Guy
Bracklin, q powerful big Sioux,
and l, playing the wings.
Bracklin tore the line to pieces
on his reverSeS and SlantS off
tackle. The Dartmouth team
simply wilted under the fury
Of our attack and we rolled
up four tOuchdOwns.
''The New York newspaper
men said that 1913 team was
the greatest Carlisle ever had.
i certainly think it was, and
there Is no doubt that the
double wing back formation as