The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-17
TODAY'S SPORT
 PARADE
RY HENRY McLEMoRE
United Press stan Correspondent)

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 Los Angeles, Jan. l7-(UP)-- Hearing that Harry stuhldreher was in town, and remembering that he wan one of the -Four Horsemen," l naturally went out to the Santa Anita track to look for him.
 found him there, in huddle, and what do you suppose he was talking about in the huddlep He waU talking about how much {oot- ball would benefit, both as some- thing to play and something to watch. if the huddle were abolished
 Stulhdreher, whose record at Notre Dame in the early twenties estab- lished him as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and whc now coaches at Wisconsin, believes the huddle has no more place in the modern game than the flying wedge and tackles with moustaches and chrysanthemum haircuts.
 ''Coaches who argue for the hud- ale system of calling signals will tell you that the huddle simplifies matters, and that eliminates any interference by the roar of the crowd" stuhldreher says. But that isn't true. As @ matter of fact, the i1uddle complicates matters, offering as 1t does, the opportunity for all eleven players to suggest the proper play. As for the crowd drowning out the quarterback's voice, well I've played before big and noisy crowds and never once was both- cred in any way"
 a Change Coming?
 Stuhldreher Is convinced that the tremendous Improvement in defen- sive football play in the past ten years will force coaches to return tc the barking of signals by the quar- terback.
 "Teams use five, six. seven and eight defensive formations In sin- gle game these days" the old Horse- man said, land this makes 1t imper- ative that the quarterback stand up and call the signals. In that way he can see the various changes ir the defensive set-up and capitalize on them. With the huddle, play is chosen and then the team comes out and finds that the defensive set-up is such that 1t makes tho play decided on useless. The prooi of this lies in the fact that huddlt teams return to formation and cal another play 75 per cent of tho time"
 In line with this stuhldreher citet the Green Bay Packers in theii game with the All-Stars here last Sunday as an example.
 "The Packers huddled. yes, but fully half of the time they checked signals when they came up on the line and got look at the defensive formation of the All-Stars," he said
 Slows Up Game
 Stuhldreher, who refuses to admit that he is biased on the subject Just because he was stand-up signal call. CT at Notre Dame, says the footbal public would be pleased by tht elimination of the huddle.
 ''The huddle takes up too mucf time and makes the game a great deal slower" he argues. Besides there is something dramatic in { quarterback looking over the riva team and trying to outguess 1t witt q play that capitalizes on mar being out of place, Too, direct sig. nal calling would make for better quarterbacking. When a boy knows the responsibility of calling the cor. rect play Is solely fAs, he will con. centrate more on becoming e mas. ter of tactics. With the huddle muct cf the responsibility is taken ava, from the quarterback. He is not 'st much c leader as chairman of { round table discussion"
 The horses came into the stretch at this time and the huddle agains the huddle broke up.