Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1930, Page 31

| EASY TOUCHDOWNS DEADEN INTEREST Lou Little Thinks It’s Time Defensive End of Game Be Considered. BY H. C. BYRD. ORWARD passing is becom- F ing so increasingly effective as an offensive weapon that it will not be very long be- fore the offense will have such an advantage over the defense 4 that the rule makers may be com- pelled to pass legislation to help _Rhe defense. Not only are teams / beginning to use the pass regular- ly but they are making it effective as a scoring weapon instead of re- garding it as an occasional ground gaining play. ‘The success now being attained with the pass is due to its general develop- ment, to the training of more accurate. passers and receivers, and to the build- ing cf more fuhdamentally sound pass- ing plays, and as these factors develop even more efficiently, as they will, the offense is likely to overmatch complete- 1y the defense. So far in recent years, it seems to shave been the aim of the Rules Com- mittee .to make such changes as would tend to help the offense, to build up more scoring power, but the situation is fast becoming such that it may not be long before the ccmmittee will be passing some kind of legislation to bol- ster up the defense. Lou Little Speaks. Last year when the Rules Committee announced scme changes calculated to benefit the -offense, Lou Little, coach at Columbia University, was one man Who gave an opinicn that had in it :n"re wisdom than was credited at that ime. . Said Little: “It seems to be that it is the defense that begins to need help in foot ball more than the offense does. With the advantages the Rules Committee is giv- ing to offensive foot ball it is difficult now to find a way to stop a well bal- anced attack, and it will not be long before stopping such an attack may be next to impossible. I predict that there will be a lot of clamoring before long, to which the Rules Committee will have to listen, to do something to ald the defenge and forget about the offensc Jor awhile.” Hardly a game is played in which the forward pass does noi play an impor- tant part, perhaps tzo important a part. One team may gain ground consistently all during & game, may have the bail near the goal line half a dozen times, yet not score, and only to have the opposing eleven get away with a long pass that in a twinkling changes the Of course, to continue ty succezd if it is n Too many home runs in the novelty of the home run and t60 many touchdowns in foot ball will kill the thrill cf ground 1~ , which is almest the whole of the s | | minutes cf actual play. A base ball game in which each team scores 8 ‘becomes monotonous end - usually is dubbed “rotten” by those that watch it. In the big parks fans seldom stey to ‘watch finish of such a game. The same is true of foot ball in a slightly lerent sense, and too many touchdowns will become just as monot- cnous and causc the same feeling to- ward the game that téo many runs cause in il The rules committee will have to watch close, indeed, to s2e that it does not create a situation in which the of- fense will considérably overbalance the defense, if it has not already done 9. Virginia Polytechnic - Institute and University of Maryland cer- tainly picked anything but two soft SY:LI to start their sons. The former played North Carolina on October 4 and meets Vanderbilt this week, while ihe latter met Yale October 4 and plays North Carolina Saturday. Last week North Carolina gave V. P. 1. & drubbing, and, if Vanderbilt lives up to what “’I displayed against Minnesota, the Blacks- burg eleven 1s in for another trim- ming. However, it often happens that a team that plays such foot ball as Vandy played t Minnesota slumps the following Saturday and takes a beating from a weaker opponent. It is e that V. P. I. may benefit from such a Vanderbilt slump. Maryland evidently is due to face another power- ful North Carolina eleven. Th: Ta heels have another great scoring ma- They ran up more points on P. I this year than they did last. er hard Saturday in front of it, following its defeat by Duke. The Cavaliers go up to meet Pennsylvania, ch gives them two games just about 2s hard as those played by Maryland and V. P. 1. How- ever, it is unlikely that Virginia anti- cipated such a defeat at the @ands of Duke when the game was scheduled. One man who saw Virginia play Duke expressed this opinion of Virginia: “Por the life of me I cannot under- stand how it hapepned. Virginia had on the field just about as fine & looking ¢ bunch of men as I ever saw in foot ball uniforms and most of the time they seemed to hold their own. However, Duke gained consistently on two or three plays, which Virginia never was ~able to stop. But even with that it does not seem to me that Duke had any license to whip Virginia by such a score as it did.” CAGLE’S BROTHER PLAYS Already in Training in Effort to Make Tulsa 1931 Team. By the Associated Press A brother of the famous “Red” Cagle may be one of the University of Tulsa's backfield chargers in the 1931 gridiron m’ Cagle, who seems to take after his brother in the matters of ‘foot ball and red hair, has enrolled in thé Tulsa school, but is ineligible for this year's he transferred from the in promises to mw‘:‘wotmmxmmu . GRID STAR IS OBSCURE Enapic Said to Be Vietim of Being ‘With Small School. ‘For Tacony A | §T'S going to be tough stopping the | Apaches! | For the first time this season the | District champlons are lined up| with every player ready to go. ! Manager Seymour Hall and Ccach Jerry Carroll have been laboring in- dustriously since the Little Indians first | trod the sod, and according to reports from the Apache cemp, their second victim of the season will be the Tacony A. C. of Philadelphia, which plays the champions Sunday in the Griffith Stadium. Despite a collection of crack gridders such as John Hudak and “Reds” Cun- ningham of G. U, Jim Birthright of American U., Ribnitzski of Maryland, Nolan of Holy Cross, “Huck” Hilleary, “Bits” Clifford, “China” Boyd and John Montague and Rice, among others, Manager Hall announces that a few more piayers will be signed up R Finming next Monday, the Apaches will pneu%e nightly in the Griffith Stadium under the newly installed flood- lights. There's a possibility that the Frank- ford Yellowjackets, Philadélphia pros, may be booked for a night game here DOWN T WITH W. O. OME time ago I wrote something concerning “The Younger Gen- eration” in which I set down veraclously some of the views of the gray heads and bald pates follow- ing the world series regarding the attitude of the younger generaticn to- ward intercollegiate foot ball arid the national pastime. The views were not mine, as I hold views which are dias metrically opposite. Following is one of the many letters received regarding that piece and the writer, Edward C. Hewitt, is either of or for the younger neration which was grilled during the lcose con- versation which took part in connection with the world series. “It was with even greater interest than usual that I.read your column on “The Younger Generation’ today and I am moved to address only one remark to your di ed group of ‘old- timers'—I have you cr the Bezdek in defense. And that is: Do they recall which generation bad the elghteenth amendment put over on them? Do they think that we young- sters would have let them get by with it? And if that great blunder is cor- rected, who will 'do it? I would like to hear their rebuttal to that argument.” This sounds like scmething for the elderly gentlemen who view the quick- witted and fast-thinking generation with alarm and suspicion. ‘Their atti- tude begins to look like an inferiority complex developing in the fact of the ‘wisd new, lom. 1 mentioned the subject I have received some intimations of a revolt of youth in the colleges against the tyranny of the foct coach and everempht o it, tke - legiate nunu'edu 1s not the fault of the undergraduates of today. They think | to0 rapidly and too lucidly, WAS talking the other day ‘vm.h‘ a| Very young old grad of a university fot the suj fon’ e name !donotww\lhuwommflm to start spirit at dear old Whoosis 1 be of no benefit to them timent un: 3 Said -the young old grad with the kindliness of one possessing a superior wisdom: - “You were about half right in that stuff you wrote about younger n - in the colleges. They do not fall for the blah that their predecessors used to eat up. They are not going to die for any alma mater. “They have come to the conclusion thet the principal reason for the ex- istence of rt in the colleges is for |the recreation and entertainment of | the ‘college men of today and not for the college men of a generation ago. If you think there is much fun to play- ing foot” ball these days you can bet {me. It's a cross between military | service and a four-year sentence in the “The very younger generation is getting very frank about that. They are inclined to be quite cmiell when' the coach is making fighting talks in| the room and they are full of bruises. - Of course, I used to feel that way, but we were afraid to talk. W were afrald to nbe‘l., But the very younger generation is becoming prac- flcl!lwaa!l&, It will kick off the strings and go in for fun in it. | coach’s apron | sport that has THE EVENING § | Apaches in F' ighting Spirit . C. Tilt’ October 20. Manager Hall ifjtrying to make connections with the pros. Talk about a foot ball coach's hard jobs, Coach Perron of the Palace-D. 'S. eleven is more or less up B iree when it comes to calling his play- ers. There are nine pairs of brothers on the squad. ‘They are Albert and Oscar Heflin, Harry and Satlor Oden, Fred and Ed- ward Healey, Dolph and Inky McDer- mitt, Billy and Lucky Regab, John and Bernie Smith, Frank and Mike Scanlon, Percy and Raymond Vernon and Wil- liam and Frank Tonker. Sites of the playing fields for the opening of the Capital City League will be decided tonight by the pilots of the seven clubs in a_meeting at French's Sport Store at 7:30 o'clock. Tonight, by the way, is the deadline | for 150-pound players to weigh in. A game for Sunday is wanted by the Iroquols A. C. 150-pound eleven of Alexandria. The Iroquois last Sunday battled the G. P. O. Federals to a scoreless tie. With the Astecs 2 -19 victors over the Salb eleven yesterday, another meeting of these teams has been booked for Sunday at 1 v'clock. All Aztec players ave to report at Sixth and K streets northeast at 12 o'clock Sunday. \ g HE LINE McGEEHAN “And 1if this be treason you can take away my block letter.” , The Revolt of Youth. A few years ago, George Owen of Harvard, who played great foot ball there, wrote just this for a magazine. He called intercollegiate foot ball, which has the limelight at this season of the year and which is responsbile for millions of words of incoherence, drudgery of the worst sort. course, young Mr. Owen Was flayed in the prints for this. But the wiser generation listened and thought the thing over. Today any number of athletic directors, graduate managers and c?chu will tell you that this ::lflt of revolt has spread. Of course, gentlemen, whose lucrative and gl::unz positions depend upon the ping u& of the old “spirit,” are around pl fln&“ and , wondering ‘whither they are ting. In the mean time the wise generation becomes more knowing and more cynical in regard to these overemphasized college activi- Sunday 41 dly Mr. | ties. I heard one coach admit: *“The fight talks do not get over very big any more. I notice this in the dressing rooms be- tween the halves. The sophomores will listen with some of the old ea ‘The * juniors will pretend. t the senfors will give you a look which you will not like. “They seem to be saying with their eyes, ‘And now are you going to dish out some more of that old blah? Well, then, make it snappy and give us a rest till it is time to go out there again and get pounded.’ I certainly do not like looks that those seniors give me. ‘The time is coming when even the freshman teams will not pay the slight- est attention to the pep talks.” All of which I maintain is an indica- tion of the sane perspective and the re- ]é;‘fleu wisdom of the younger genera- The “Material” Hits Back. LSO, there is much deploring con- cerning the lack of loyalty to the foot ball coach, and this seems to | be increasing. When you come to think of it why should there be any particu- larly intense loyalty to the average coach. I am thinking of the character- ~ istic attitude of the coach toward his “material,” and it is merely material to him. At the start of the season the aver- age coach will tell the expert that his materail has been hard hit by gradua- tions. When a possible all-America Elh’" is taken away from the coach the natural course of things through | graduation, he feels that it must be done chiefly to annoy him. ‘Then the coach will say that his ma- terial—what is left—is dumb and ter- rible. The younger material does not take this as good naturedly as the ma- terial of former days. Half of the time, when the coach is telling the expert that his material is awful, he knows in his heart that it is good. But he does not say so. ‘The material must be poor, or at the best indifferent, for the purposes of the average coach. Then, when it becomes a team that wins all or nearly all of its the coach takes a bow for eiing & great foot ball team out, of & ad of dumbbells and incompetents. coaches do not do this, but most of them have this attitude in greater or lesser degrees. ‘With the spread of the revolt of youth some day a foot ball squad will walk out on the coach as the Carlisle Indians walked out on Glenn Warner. They said that they played foot.ball for fun, and that if the coach was going to make work out of it they would not play. That Indian notion of the motives for foot ball seems to be spreading. Momentum Is ! BY FIELDING H. YOST, | Michigan Coach. | (Written for the Associated Press.) | NN ARBOR, Mich.—Momentum | and mass momentum have | been fought by members of the I Intercollegiate Foot Ball Rules Committee for a third of a century. The committee’s efforts at abolish- Iment culminated this year in a rule that requires all 11 members of a foot bell team to come to a stop of at least & second after a shift or huddle. The rule last year read, “approxi- i mately a second.” But this year the | committee decided to say something | more. It “You must stop at least a second.’ !&m-cecond watches are recommended to referees to make. cer- tain the “at lcast” is complied with. A constant agitator for a clear un- deuundhg of this important rule, I feel the Rules Committee finally has | reached a firm n be anywhere. - clarity will benefit foot ball in the “come to a full stop” ap- In run, pears Kot in the 1896 rules. Tn 1805 The generai foot ball rules allowed three Princeton, in their special to long Rule Which Definitely Halts Praised by Yost ings. The earlier meaning was a shift of personnel. The later meaning, ap- pearing after mass plays of the tackle and guards back formations had been eliminated in 1906, refers to a series of rhythm producing steps, the ball being snapped at a moment the players sup- dly are stationary. In reality the power of the rhythm continued through the moment of pass- ing the ball, ucing an 11-man mass momentum play. It was against this t}xe the recent enactments of the mittee have been directed. The Minnesota Shift. Minnesota, in 1909, produced the first of this latter style of shift which came under my observation. The Gophers, in the widely heralded and broadly copied Minnesota shift, always used two and sometimes three. The Minnesota other similar shifts have been “extensively used in the West and South. Michigan has shifted since. I have known the play of the Wolverines, but its shift is one of individuals only. It is made a5 unobtrusively as possible to create an unbalanced line at the ment the ball is put in play. Manifestly it was necessary the rule so definil of offense! rules com- the universal opinidn that better off for elimination of both mo- mentum, and mass. Ly APT FOOT, BALL PUPIL Sutherland, PRitt Coach, Became Regular After- Two Gamgs. By the Associated Press. J¢ Sutherland, head coach, never TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1930." OLD LINER LAUDED AS FAULTS BARED Geofgetown Sees Need to| Improve to Succeed in Bigger Games. “BY R. D. THOMAS. | OZE¥ BERGER, Maryland| halfbaek, is wondering to- day just how much of a foot ball player is he. He was flabbergasted by a com- | liment paid him yesterday by| his coach, Curley Byrd. | “Bozey,” said Byrd, “I would; rather have you than Albleg Booth.” The youth sensed a razzberry. “I'm ot kidding,” added the coach, “I mean it absolutely.” But Curley weni on to point out some of the mistakes made by Bozey in the Yale game, mechanical and men- tal errors, which, along with a few by | his teammates, skidded the Terrapins | to _defeat. | Byrd believes Berger is a real foot | ball player. The youth's miscues at New Haven were due principally to in- experience. This is his first year of serious foot ball. He had never played before entering college and during his freshman and sophomore years dabbled in the game. | “He 1s coming along like a house afire,” Byrd said, “and before the sea- son is over should be a finished article.” | Berger showed his heels to Booth | when Maryland got its second touch- | down Saturday. He caught a pass with | the great Albie standing almost beside him and the Yale man found the chase hopeless as the Terrapin sprinted 40 yards across the goal. Berger got so far ahead he turned and grinned at the galloping Bulldog. ARYLAND may need a flock of Bergers to down North Carolina | Saturday at Chapel Hill. The ‘Tarheels, who won 43 to 0 last ye better authoriti College Park, are joint favorites with Vanderbuilt to win the Southern Con- ference championship. Maryland is conceded an outside chance for victory Saturday. LARK GRIFFITH avers he has the best-lighted stadium in the coun- try. If it is as wejl flluminated as that of Loyola University, Georgetown, which_meets West Virginia Wesleyan next Friday night, will be satisficd. The Hilltoppers, and particularly Head Coach Mills, were jmpressed by the Loyola arcs. But Mills is far from satisfied with his team. The Hilltoppers have won two victorles and figure to gain an- other Friday, but it is the opinion of Mills and others that the Hoyas will | need more of a punch than yet shown to get safely past Western Maryland next week. ‘The Green Terrors are rated stronger than they were last year, when they beat Georgetown by a touchdown. This game will be played in Balti- more, but is expected to attract one of the largest crowds to see the Hoyas play this season. The Georgetown squad will practice tonight at the stadium, which will be illuminated with sixty-eight 1,500-watt lamps mounted on 34 reflectors, There are 14 reflectors on the south side of the field and 20 on the north. EORGE WASHINGTON should play much better foot ball against Dela- ware College Saturday, at Newark, N. J., than it put forth against Rutgors. The Rutgers game revealed the weak spots in a hitherto untried team, gnd Coach Pixlee has lost not a moment of practice time this week ironing wrinkles. The Colonial ends have come in for special attention. RECORD attendance for Kendall Green is looked for Saturday, when Gallaudet takes on American University. It will be the only game here that day and it promises to be a corker. Both teams are confident of victory, although American will concede considerbale we!ght. The Eegles have mapped out a cam- paign against Johnny Ringle, the Gal- laudet ghost. It might well look to Paul Zieske, and particularly when throwing the ball. This player intercepted no less than seven passes in the game with PFort Meade last week. EORGE WASHINGTON has some likely material for next sezson and it will be shown off Saturday night at Grifith Stadium, when the Colonial By the Associated Press. OUTH BEND, Ind, October 8.— Notre Dame's first and second teams today had a scrimmage en- gagement. against the freshmen, using the Navy style of foot ball Stu- dents also were doing some preparing, getting ready for a gigantic celebration in connection with the formal opening of the new $750,000 Notre Dame Stadium against the Navy Saturday. EVANSTON, Ill, October 8 (#).— ‘Weather conditions have only a casual importance in Coch Dick Hanley's preparation for Northwestern's opening conference game with Ohio State Satur- day. It rained all day yesterday, but the whole Wildcat squad, except Hank Bruder and Harry Kent, put in an afternoon of blocking and tackling in the mud. CHICAGO, October 8 (#).—Coach A. A. Stagg of Chicago today continued with_his “shoot-the-moon” plans for the Maroons' meeting with Wisconsin Saturdsy at Madison. The “old man” planned today to emphasize passes which will be the keynote of his at- tack Saturday. MADISON, Wis.,, October 8 (&), Coach Glen Thistlethwaite has selected a Wisconsin line-up which probably will start against Chicago and its flanker plays in the opener of the Big Ten season Saturday. He had Kruger at center yesterday, with Molinaro and Kabat, guards; Smith and Bratton, tackles; Casey and Gantenbein, ends; Wimmer, quarter; Behr and Rebholz, halfbacks, and Lusby at fullback. CHAMPAIGN, IIL. October 8 (#).— Illinois has a foot ball engagement with | Butler University Saturday, but Coach | Bob Zuppke is doing his worrying about a week from Saturday when Norlhwest- ern plays at Champaign. Zuppke has added a search for centers and guards to his hunt for another fullback. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. October 8 (; yearlings face the University of Pitts- burgh freshmen. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY is hopeful only of holding Holy Cross to a respectable score Saturday at Wor- cester. The Cardinals have been hard at it in defensive serimmage, with the scrubs equipped with Holy Cross plays. From Gridirons in Midwést Purdue today worked on plays, mostly passes, calculated to function against an eight-man defensive line—something the Boilermakers lacked against Baylor Saturday. The Bears moved another man up to the line, and almost ruined Purdue’s running game, and Coach Noble Kiger is taking no chances on Michigan doing the same thing Sat- urday at Ann Arbor. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October A “stop Bruder” cam] way in Ohio State’s Torineh_allmportant or _ their all-im] Northwestern Saturday. Willaman's scouts re] Hank Bruder woul toward halting. offense. 8 (P~ is- under foot ball camp, lishing uj ttle wil Coach Sam that stopping g0 a long way the Northwestern BLOOMINGTON, Ind., October 8 (). —Three sophomores appear to be cer- tain of starting in Indiana's game against the forward-passing Oklahoma Aggles Saturday. Opasik and Saluski, backfield men, have shown more abil- ity to block than more experienced players, while Kutchins appears to be the leading candidate for running mate to Jasper at tackle. MINNEAPOLIS, October 8 (#).—All the offensive strategy the Minnesota squad is able to absorb this week will be turned loose against Stanford's pow- erful eleven Saturday. Several regulars have been removed from the cripple list and the line prom- ises to be much stronger than against Vanderbilt last week. ANN ARBOR, Mich., 8 (A).— Some of Fielding H. Yost's famous trick plays have been taken from storage for use by Michigan against Purdue Saturday. Yost was on the fleld yesterday | personally conducted a period of struction. IOWA CITY, Iowa, October 8 (#).— More offensive power and a defense against forward passes are Coach Burt Ingwersen's probiems at the University of Towa. The Hawkeyes failed to produce a sustained drive against Oklahoma Aggies Saturday and the defesne was fooled by just enough forward to give the Invaders a 6-to-0 ory. Ingwersen’s scouts reported that OCen- tenary, Iowa's intersectional opponent and in- gam: Are you a - Lubrication factory enqineer W{EN that question is put to you in that blunt fashion —you won’t hesitate about your answer. You'll'admit that the men who build your ‘car know more about its mech- anism and its lubrication than you do. But do you buy .oils and greases on that basis? Do you use the oil which has been specified by factory experts as the proper one for your car? Or do you buy.a heavier oil than you should be using? Many people, thinking that the heavier an oil is the better it is, are_regularly using oils too heavy for the proper,lubrication of their cars. This results in a drag on the motor,” causing "decreased wer and power a mileage. 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Three Western Conference elevens which at present time appear more formidable than their sister in- stitutions of the Big Ten are working the Palo Alto attack, and in their first games, played last Saturday, very satis- . factory results were obtained. Backfield coaches of the trio, which consists of Northwestern, Ohio State and Wisconsin, will be at Minneapolis when Stanford plays the Gophers next Saturday, to take advantage of the op- portunity of observing the Cardinal attack and thus checking up on what g g e - icago “ant nesota are playing the old Stagg flanker attack to the limit. The theory of rivals.is that this game of throwing the ball to an end stationed out wide can be suppressed by covering him with a defensive end. The flanking end either catches a lateral from a standing position or else goes down for a forward. Last year both Princeton and the University of Washington thought they could let a backfield man cover this flanker, and both suffered defeat be- cause of the misconception of the proper handling of the Chicago specialty. No - such mistake will be made by the Coast players in the game against the midway team this week. - Michigan is going back to sheer power of the days of Heston and Maul- betsch. She is deviating from her policy of nothing but plays from punt formation, and Iowa hopes to get re- sults out of her 1929 “Z” backfield ar- rang>ment with unbalanced line. on