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Tech s Famous Coach Says Forward Pass Is No Longer an Experiment
NEW FOOTBALL COMING INTO ITS OWN===HEISMAN
By J. W. Heisman.
* T last the forward pass seems
/A to be coming into its own.
* For the first time in the
joven years it has been experi
pi-nted with we are beginning to
fnd quite a lot of teams who can
n a ke successful use of the thing.
When the play first became per
ssible by rule, I predicted that it
vildn't be much of a play to
hank on for several years.
I knew that the old players who
never handled it and who bad
...r, schooled in the old style of
could no more readily learn it
n utter football novices, for it
. j too radical —too far away from
whole trend and nature of
' bail as it had been played for
• . oid men to derive any special
i fit from their past experience
ter departments of the game.
Hut if the play were taken up
• i ’ prep schools, as. of course, it
, ml be, by the time a. varsity
■ <-3T was composed entirely of
p’ave' “ who had been familiar with
from the first day ever
popped out on a prep gridiron,
vcould expect to see some nice
■. a,l pass work cropping out.
V. . pause to note' one point that
, q strike the unthinking as pe-
, , : and that is that the small,
n t <>r unknown teams are using
p jy more frequently than are
;.:g teams, and with rather
-ucvess. The explanation is
« . What chance has a light
rr green team to buck through a
« ior line for touchdowns? What
,in,e to beat them by even an
. : limning or a kicking game?
i-ulutely none—any more than it
nr had.
Rm the forward pass game is one
that they can play to equal advan
tage witlt the big fellows. And
t'r.at they are meeting with rather
more success with the play than
*he big teams is due to the fact
that they recognize it as their one
and only chance in the game, and
sn they practice the play a deal
nun than do the big, heavy
teams. And they also pull off the
pa;, oftener in games than do
the big fellows, for what else have
trey learned to play?
Take Citadel—a team weighing
about 155 pounds. They do not pre
tend to bucking ability, nor even
t > end running strength, notwith
standing their back field is as fast
ns any I have seen in some, time.
But they have put in a lot of prac
tice on forward passing and are
comparatively sure on the play.
Very well, why hammer and smash
their light men up against heavy
weights ' No; it is far easier on
them to throw the ball and let
their fast men run for ft. To be
sure, the forward pass is more apt
to fail than not, no matter how
proficient a’team thinks it is in its
execution.
Rm even if it succeeds only once
in four trials the team using it
has itndou made first down.
Perhaps it has t vl long run
n ut of it. and not nit.. the re
quired ten yards. Therefore, if
such an average could be main
’aineri. a team could view with per
leet equanimity the three failures
i m<t with out of the four at-
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tempts. Had they elected to run or
buck the ball the three times, they
would probably not have gained the
ten yards, anyway.
The heavy team will naturally
prefer to use its weight and physi
cal strength in a running and buck
ing game, and if Its opponents are
very light, the heavyweights are
liable to retain prolonged posses
sion of the ball and not let the
light team have a chance to show
what it can do with its forward
pass game. If. in addition to this,
the heavy team will put in some
practice on forward passes, so that
they also can do something along
this line. they, of course, make it
impossible for the light team to
cope'with them.
But flie forward pass is doing
so very much better this year with
all teams that it has made a pro
nouncedly good impression with
both players and public, for the
first time in its career. It has come
to stay.
Ry the way, Howard tried 32 for
ward passes against Mercer in
their recent game. I believe this
is a record number. Eight were
successful, or 250 per cent, which
is a fairly good percentage.
* * ♦
About Being
“On Edge.’’
'jp HE part that being keyed up
lot a particular game plays
in that game is beginning to
be much better understood than
formerly. No team can feel en
tirely fit, mentally as well as phys
ically. for every match it goes in.
This was amply illustrated by the
game between Pennsylvania and
Swarthmore a siiore time ago.
Penn is a much bigger college than
Swarthmore, with a corresponding
ly greater “rep” and prestige. But
she had a lot of new men on the
team who had to be gradually
broken into the essentials of the
Penn system of football, and so by
the time the Swarthmore game
came along they had learned, as a
team, only about eight or ten plays.
Swarthmore, on the other hand,
had an entirely veteran team and,
besides outweighing tile Quakers
some ten pounds to the man. they
had had plenty of time to review
their well developed game of last
yea" and to fire the whole thing
with well directed aim at the Key
stoners, even thus early' in the sea
son. The result was a 6 to 3 de
feat for Penn.
But in addition to these handi
caps. Penn was laboring under the
disadvantage that her coaches did
not dare bring the team to a physi
cal height this early in the season,
for the reason that Carlisle, Michi
gan and Cornell have yet to be
played much later in the season.
For Swarthmore this game with
Penn was the hardest and most im
portant game on her entire sched
ule. She could afford to come to a
height and expend her last mite of
strength and mental alertness In
trying to win the game.
Were the coaches at Penn to em
phasize too strongly the impor
tance of the team tvinning from
Swarthmore they might win the
game all right, but would they' be
capable of a fresh keying up in all
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the other big games of the year?
You just have to take your
choice, as a coach, of what teams
you are most anxious to win from
and work to that end. letting hap
pen what will in the other games.
A month from now' Swarthmore
could not beat Penn in a dozen
trials,
Cornell is probably taking the
same sane slow, but sure, course
of work-outs, and the esult will
probably be that she will give iter
November competitors a hard tun
of It.
Right now Princeton looks best
of the Eastern teams, but she may
find in November that she went at
too fast a pace in October, and that
the football Marathon doos not al
ways go to the team that runs the
first half the quickest.
WORLD’S STARS TO PLAY
FOR BILLIARD CROWN
NEW YORK, Oct. 21. It was an
nounced loday that William F Hoppe.
G , eo r? p F . Slosson and Harry P. (’fine.
New York: Orlando Morningstar, of
Pittsburg; George Sutton and Calvin
Peinarest. of Chicago: Albert Taylor, of
Milwaukee, and Koji Yamada, of Japan,
f° r world’s championship
18.2 balk line billiard tournament, to be
held here, beginning November 1
I wenty-eighi games will be required
!<► complete the regular tournament com
petitions. Ties will have to be placed off.
The entrants subscribed $250 each, or a
total of $2,000. to which $3,000 will be
added. Four prizes will be awarded. The
winner will get $2,000. the second $1,500.
the third SI,OOO and the fourth SSOO.
MICHIGAN TARS WINNERS
OF NAVY CHAMPIONSHIP
NORFOLK. VA . Oct. 21. The football
team of the I’nited States battleship
Michigan won the gridiron championship
of the North Atlantic fleet bv defeating
the team from the battleship New Hamp
shire. 12 to 0, in a fiercely contested
and beautifully' played game on the field
at the St. Helena naval training station.
The Michigan had won from the other
battleships in the first division and the
New Hampshire had done the same in
the second division.
McDonald and scott
REGISTER NEW RECORDS
NEW YORK. Oct. 21.—A world's rec
ord at shot putting was made bv Patrick
McDonald, of the Irish-American Athletic
club, at Celtic Park, increasing the dis
tance to 42 feet 4’j inches.
Louis Scott, of the South Paterson Ath
letic club. 10-mile national champion,
broke the American 4-ntile record, his
time being 20:08 1-5
FINNISH RUNNER HANGS
UP THRE£NEW RECORDS
NEWARK. N. J., Oct. 21. Three
world's professional running records were
broken by William Kohlemainen. of
Finland, when he won an international
Marathon race around a circular track
in the stadium here. He covered 26 miles
385 yards in 2:29:39 1-5. Kohlemainen
created new 25-mile and 26-mile figures
2:22:20 3-5 and 3:28:32, respectively.
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•JOHNNY EVERS TO Ji
: MANAGE CHICAGO, J
: is latest report:
• CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Johnny Ev- •
• ers. second baseman, has been •
• picked to succeed Frank L. Chance •
• ag manager of the Cubs, according •
• to a reliable authority today. That •
• President Murphy has closed with •
• Evers and will announce the new •
• manager to the public within a •
• few days, was stated by this mar, •
• today. Murphy believes Evers is •
• a second "MuggSy" McGraw, and •
• also believes McGraw is the high- •
• est type of a manager. •
• Evers is 29 years of age ai\d has •
• been with the Cubs eleven Na rs - •
• He has agreed to move from Troy, •
• N. Y.. to make his home in Chi- •
• cage, in compliance with Murphy’s •
• demand that the new manager live •
• in Chicago. •
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MURPHY HELD CUBS
DOWN; HE WOULDN’T
SPEND ANY MONEY
CHICAGO. Oct. 21.- Frank L. Chance
today answered President Murphy's
statement regarding the need of "more
speed for the Cubs."
“Speed, ' said Chance; “of course we
need more speed. That's what I have
been telling Mr. Murphy for three years.
I begged him to spend money for ball
players, and mentioned several whom I
would like. He said he was not a ‘sucker’
to pay fancy prices for young players.
He said we bad a good enough team; that
I ough' to make it win
"What Murphy needs is scouts and
nerve enough to spend some money for
players. lie has a brother for a scout.
I told him he ought to get two or three
experienced baseball-men: somebody who ■
would know a player if he saw one.
“We had the shortest training season ;
we ever had this spring, and the worst. ;
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a preliminary boiling out because Mur- i
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Kl> limbs ached. Hi- would cough nr*
great chunks of mucus. After eating
his meals he would Ire in misery for
hours, and some things would not agree
with him at all. Headaches were a
common occurrence, ami continuous
pain.- in th** appendix His breath was I
simply awful anil his tongue contin
uously coated
During th- rim* that this man wa:
afflicted h* used many r*mmilii -. tried
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Christy Mathewson Greatest of All, Although He Was Defeated
HEROES OF THIS YEAR’S WORLD’S SERIES-NO. I
By Harry Glaser.
rpHK world's series that has Just
! passed into''history was re
markable for many things.
Records of all sorts were broken
and outside of the fact that the Red
Sox won. few of the predictions
made by experts and players came
true.
Players of whom much was ex
pected accomplished little, while
some of the lesser lights who we
were told would jeopardize their
team's chances took a leading role
in fighting for the laurels. All of
which again proves the fallacy of
try ing to “dope" out a series.
The struggle was unique in that
the leading hero is a member of
the losing team. Mathewson, with
out a doubt, stands out as the most
prominent figure of the great
championship tussle, the most ex
citing and interesting ever contest
ed. despite tiie fact that many of
the games were loosely played.
The Giants’ veteran htirler is
truly as great in defeat as he
could possibly he in victory, for
never did a pitcher struggle more
gamely and valiantly, only to have
his best efforts go for naught
through the fault of others. If it
could have been known beforehand
that Matty was capable of pitch
ing three such excellent games as
he did there Isn't a follower of the
pastime in the land who would not
have conceded the championship to
the Giants at the stat't.
Thought He Would Fail.
It was freely predicted that lie
would fail; that he had seen his
best days. The Matty who gained
everlasting fame by his feats tn
that other world's championship in
which the Athletics thrice went
never seemed to do any good in his
case Altogeth r he was in a pitiable
condition. Many a day he was plying
bls vocation w hen he really should have
been in b'-il. But weak ami sick as he
was. h** had to** much will power to
I give III*
Mr. Sinedley* went to Uoursey *v
.'.limn' drug store to explain his case
and. after doing so, was advised a
t>* *llll*lll of rhe Quake* Hi rb E'.tiai f.
which was bought bv him ami used
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• MATTY’S RECORD •
: SINCE JOINING :
: GIANTS IN 1900:
• •
• Games Pitched. •
• Year. Won. Lost. P.C. •
• 1900 0 3 .000 •
• 1901 20 17 .541. •
• 1902 13 18 .419 •
• 1903 30 13 .698 •
• 1904 35 8 .819 •
• 1905 31 9 .775 •
• 1906 22 12 .647 •
• 1907 24 12 .667 •
• 1908 37 11 .771 •
• 1909 25 6 . 806 •
• 1910 27 9 .750 •
• 1911 25 13 .654 •
• 1912 23 11 .676 •
• •
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down to defeat before him was no
more, said the critics Time had
left its trace and robbed him of
skill and strength. There is no
doubt that he Is no longer the pitch
er of former days, still he proved
himself a marvel and amazed even
hfs admirers by his splendid work.
Matty has been in the game close
to thirteen years, which is beyond
the limit of usefulness of most
baseball stars. Tn that time, too,
he has figured more prominently
before the public than any pitcher
tn history. He has seen scores of
others come and go. yet there is
not one who has stood the test of
time as has the Giant star.
Tlte granddad of the pitchers
who engaged in the series. Matty
shouldered the brunt of the work
and outpitched them all. Wood
was looked upon as head and
shoulders above any' pitcher in the
major leagues. But a comparison
of his work in the series with that
of Mathewson’s shows the honors
- faithfully a* , iiriling to instructions. H*
again returned to the drug store ami
f said: I came back to get three more
■ bottle- of the wonderful Quaker Herb
J Extract. Sime I used It I have found
> that my appetite is good and I am
much stronger. I can get about better
than I oyer could; my troubles hate
disappeared, ami I am so very much
i pleased that I am t* lliirg all my neigh
bors and friends. I hail begun to think
1 that there was no cure for rnv trou-
to be in favor of Big Six. He la
bored harder and better than the
Boston star under greater handi
caps, for which he is charged with
two defeats, while Smoky Joe gets
credit for three victories.
Lost By Ragged Defense.
Every one of the three games
Matty twirled should have and
would have been a victory, had the
Glanjs been able to ratty to his
support. Ragged defense lost the
first battle several times over when
it allowed the Red Sox to tie the
score after the Giants had over
come their early lead, and it went
as no contest.
When Matty took up the fight a
second time he was opposed by a
brilliant young twlrler In Hugh
Bedient, who outdid himself In that
one game. Never had he displayed
better form, yet the Giants' star
might have won had ft not been
that again one of his team mates
faltered at a critical moment and
allowed the winning tally to trickle
over the plate. i
And then came his third effort—
that all-important tussle in which
Matty’ carried the hopes and fears
of the Giant followers. That, as
every one knows who has kept in
touch with the game, should have
been his at all odds.
But once more the players be
hind him were unequal to the task
that the veteran twlrler was carry
ing on so successfully and that Is
the reason Boston boasts of a
championship team today.
It matters not that the- Giants
lost. Their defeat can not detract
from the great work of Christy
Mathewson, and hfs name will be
linked with the, 1912 world’s series
as the hero of heroes as long as it
continues to be a memory.
bles. but I know now that 1 am on the
right road to health."
If you are a sufferer from catarrh In
any form, stomach trouble of any de
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blood troubles you are the one to call
at i'oursey ,K Munn’s drug store and
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I.'**-, or 3 for XL So call today a.l (’our
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