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BY Chuck Rattle
Pass Game May Get
Big Nod This Season
Portable Radio Aid
To Football GOers-
Shoot Team at City
Park Saturday $50
Pheasant Hunter Gets
2S Days to Blast Away
Old Sol Gets Fall Streak
Your correspondent, along with
thousands Of others, is getting itch
Ter to see football game than a
hunter in the blind on the first day
Of shooting, one minute before sun
rise. Add to the picture a flock
of ducks going over. Imagine his
itching trigger finger and you get
an idea of fandom's marking time
until football gets the kickoff sig
nal. -.
First off let's have a little pre-
view Of what may come. We say
may because there is every indica-
ton too that the brand of football
we've been seeing and hearing may
not materially change. But
there is also evidence that the
aerial display may be more poig-
nant this season than ever before.
f. Whether or not the wide use
Of airplanes in modern warfare will
have its effect is for more learned
observers. But 1t was pointed
out that the All Star-Pro Champ
game, that touches off little pre-
maturely, the football season is in
dicative Of what will be dished out
during the coming season. -.
II that be true the fans are
In for the most thrilling season
they've been given. That All
Star-PacIxer game this season
was the biggest scoring spree
they've had In q long time. 49,.
And the answer was the aerial
attack. They passed and pass
ed. One prominent coach point
ed out that that constituted q
new outlook, that such displays
at that game invariably pointed
the way to what the season
would hold.
It seems that the customers are
more satisfied with such displays Of
attack. Inevitably such games re-
suit in higher scoring for both sides,
for it has a multiplying effect on the
total defense. But If it gives
the boys on the bleacher the kind
Of thrill they want, then that's what
they'll get sooner or later. :. Be
cause the latch strings on the mon
ey bags that keeps the old ball
game out there in front as must
see" for thousands every week in
the fall are controlled by these
same people. -.
The passing game, once con-
sidered In more staid football
camps as dangerous and for use
Of weaker teams only, has been
finding more favor all the time.
While few years ago
such high class conferences as
the Big Ten pointed to brutal
power along with skilled mani
pulation on the ground, the
boys I'm the south were the
prime opponents Of the pass. %.
So they called It razzle dazzle.
Then Minnesota, with all
it's power on the ground, be-
came one of the foremost ex-
ponents of the razzle dazzle
with short passes, laterals, mix
ed with the ground plays that
set a new pattern. It's been
copied. -.
Just INV much use the pass will
get in high school circles over what
it formerly had is now conjecture.
If 1t does become the big
bombardment in college play, it
won't probably in high school
camps. :. High schools are always
a bit more conservatively coached,
usually follow the trend by year
or two. The reason is probably
clear. That such use of slightly un.
orthodox styles looks clumsy If not
executed to perfection. High school
mentors work with much younger
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