Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 41

SPORTS D. U, FRIDAY, MARCH 1 SPOR TS. Plays-a-Period Plan in Foot Ball Is Not Likely o Get Much Attention METHOD DOES NOT SEEM <10 CONTAIN MUCH MERIT LCondition of Fields and Type of Games Forced by|: Circumstances More Responsible for Variance in Number of Plays Than Stalling. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. | stall, of course. EW YORK, March 11.—If all|stall under the 40-play system, whose ‘toot ball elevens were to take | Chief aim is to prevent just this thing? advantage of the permission | Suppose a team is leading and W of the rules committee to run | to stall by depleting the numt Fames on the hasis of 40 plays | Plavs. Well, when it obtained the ball quayter Fall. one thing | the center could snap the ball to the e quarterback, and the quarter could hold the ball on the spot of receipt for a down. Might Bring Injustice. Injustice easily be worked Suppose Michi 1l Notre were playing, and N Dame with her fast attack took the upper hand N every that would happen would be the elim- | tnation of wide variation in the num- | ber of plays in games | four | no two games number of plays vun the 1i-min- | next Under system of 15-minute g ever show the and two rival teams #ame number of plays in ute period | For example, in the Tlarvard-Mich-| plays. This would mean that Michi- lgan game of 1913 the two elevens|gan would have only 11 plays as the ran off 39 plays in the first period, and | greatest possible maximum in which of this number Michigan used ind | to score as many points as Notre Harvard only 9. This was because | Dame had scored in 29 pla Michigan in that quarter did most of | RBrown and Boston University tried the offensive playing and ran her|out the plan tw nd were rushing m_a shift which | reported to have uite well In the second|with it. But the i Harvard got her attack work- | evenly matched , and with four punts she | doubtful if ff 27 plays higan punted but | F: times and negotiated 28 plays 2 total of 55 for the second quarter, a gainst 39 for the first Not Due to Stalling. There were only 173 plays in the Harvard-Princeton game of 1915, and 1914 Yale and Princeton totalled And so with any present arters, could sam never any It only important ystem, R, Coffin, Year after y plan have besieged the rules c tee with pleas to install it away with the watch. Alwa last week a deaf ear has been turned to them. The action of the committee in incorporating within the rules a statement that if the teams wish they may conduct their games under the stem shows the value of per- proponents al- discrepancy in the number of play Of course, one explanation of this variation would be the stalling of one tleven or another, but this is not the tull explanation, and, in truth, more often than not it does not apply at all. Causes wholly fair, natural and log- leal affect it as a rule; a wet ball and ® wet, slow field will always cause a fiminution in the total number of play forward passes that are incom- pleted, with the plavers plodding back to their original positions, result in a diminution in the number of Pl which, normally, should run about to a quarter, In a game in which a great many punts oceur, the play total is certain to be reduced, the reason being obvi- 6us. A policy of end-running also takes time in which two plays sent be- tween the ends might have been run. ‘Where an eleven is shooting in a tlose attack the number of plays piles up very quickly—as, for instance, in the Yale-Princeton game of 1914, the 1248 plays in which is, so far as the writer knows, the record number of vlays for a major game. by hitting safely in 69 consecutive To revert to stalling—teams do games. siah Eobbtols Mmoo cimaieh s I e BT SR QUALITY TIRES YANKEE CHECKER TEAM ROUT BRITISH PLAYERS NEW YORK, March 11 (#).—A 13- day international checker tournament ended last night in a complete rout of a British team by American players, who closed with a total of 92 victories against 20 for their foreigw foes. I were posted in 560 others con tests. Samuel Gonotsky of Brooklyn, American champion; Newell Banks of Detroit, John F. Hoor of Buffalo and Thomas O'Grady of Rochester com- pleted the event without a defeat. 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