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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
AX to be coming into its own
1 For the first time in the
seven years it has been experi
mented with we are beginning to
find quite a lot of teams who can
make successful use of the thing.
When the play first became per
missible by rule, I predicted that it
wouldn’t be much of a play to
bank on for several years.
I knew that the old players who
had never handled it and who had
been schooled in the old style of
play could no more readily learn it
than utter football novices, for it
was too radical—too far away from
the whole trend and nature of
football as it had been played for
the old men to derive any special
benefit from their past experience
n other departments of the game.
But if the play were taken up
in the prep schools, as, of course, it
would be, by the time a varsity
team was composed entirely of
players who had been familiar with
it from the first day they ever
siepped out on a prep gridiron,
we could expect to see some nice
forward pass work cropping out.
We pause to note one point that
may strike the unthinking as pe
culiar. and that is that the small,
light or unknown teams are using
i e play more frequently than are
the big teams, and with rather
more success. The explanation is
simple. What chance has a light
or green team to buck through a
superior line for touchdowns? What
. hance to beat them by even an
end running or a kicking game?
Absolutely none—any more than it
ever had.
But the forward pass game Is one
that they can play to equal advan
tage with 'the big fellows. And
that they are meeting with rather
more success with the play than
the big teams is due to the fact
that they recognize it as their one
end only chance in the game, and
so they practice the play a deal
more than do the big, heavy
teams. And they also pull off the
play ottener in games than do
the big fellows, for what else have
they learned to play?
Take Citadel—a team weighing
about 155 pounds. They do not pre
tend to bucking ability, nor even
to end running strength, notwith
standing their back field is as fast
ss 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 it. 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.
But even if it succeeds only once
in four trials the team using it
has undoubtedly made first down.
Perhaps it has gained long run
out of it, and not merely the re
quired ten yards. Therefore, if
such an average could be main
tained. a team could view with per
fect equanimity the three failures
it met 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 sonje
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 the 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.
By the way, Howard tried 32 for
ward passes against Mercer in
their recent game. J believe this
is a record number. Eight were
successful, or 250 per cent, which
is a fairly good percentage.
• « •
About Being
“On Edge.’’
'J 1 HE part that being keyed up
for 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 thq
game between Pennsylvania and
Swarthmore a shore 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 the 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 winning from
Swarthmore they might win the
game all right, but would they be
capable of a tresh keying up in all
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
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 lesult will
probably be that she will give her
November competitors a hard run
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 quicker.
WORLD’S STARS TO PLAY
FOR BILLIARD CROWN
NEW IORK, Oct. 21. It was an
nounced today that William F Hoppe.
George F Slosson and Harry P. Cline.'
of New York; Orlando Morningstar, of
Pittsburg; George Sutton and Calvin
Demarest, of Chicago; Albert Taylor, of
Milwaukee, and Koji Yamada, of Japan,
have entered for the world's championship
18.2 balk line billiard tournament, to be
held here, beginning November 1
Twenty-eight games will be required
tircomplete the regular tournament com
petitions. Ties will have to be played off.
The entrants subscribed $250 each, or a
total df $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 United 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
anti 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
Nev 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 by Patrick
McDonald, of the Irish-American Athletic
club, at Celtic Park, increasing the dis
tance to 42 feet 4’4 inches.
Louis Scott, of the South Paterson Ath
letic club, 10-mile national champion,
broke the American 4-mile record, his
time betpg 20:08 1-5.
FINNISH RUNNER HANGS
UP THREE 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. IT? 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 2:28:32, respectively.
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•JOHNNY EVERS TO J
: MANAGE CHICAGO, :
: is latest report:
• CHICAGO. Oct. 21. —Johnny Ev- •
• ers. second baseman, has been •
• picked to succeed Frank L. Chance •
• as 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 man •
• today. Murphy believes Evers is •
• a second “Muggsy” McG'aw, and •
• also believes McGraw is the high- •
• est type of a manager. •
• Evers is 29 years of age and has •
• been with the Cubs eleven years. •
• He has agreed to move from Troy, •
• N. Y., to make his home in Chi- •
• cago, in compliance with Murphy's •
• cfemand 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
nt f ed more speed. That’s what I have
been telling Mr. Murphy for three years.
1 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 had a good enough team: that
1 ought to make it win.
“What Murphy needs is scouts and
nerve enough to spend some money for
players. He has a brother for a scout.
1 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
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H.s limbs ached He would cough up
gieat chunks of mucus. After eating
his meals lie would be in misery for
hours, and some things would not agree
with him at all. Headaches were a
common occurrence, and continuous
pains in the appendix. His bri’ath was
simply awful and his tongue contin
uously coated.
During the time that this man was
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Christy Mathewson Greatest of A//, Although He Was Defeated
HEROES Os THIS YEAR’S WORLD’S SERIES—NO.I
By Harry Glaser.
rrx HE world's series that has just
I passed into history was re
markable for many things
Records of all sorts were broken
and outside t>f the fact that the Red
Sox won, few of the piedietions
made by experts and players came
t rue.
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
trying 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 the fact that many of
the games were loosely played.
I The Giants' veteran liurler is
truly as great in defeat as he
could possibly be 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 th'ee 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 start.
Thought He Would Fail.
It was freely predicted that he
would fail; that he had seen his
best days. The Matty who gained
everlasting fame by his feats in
I I hat other world's championship in
which tlie Athletics thrice went
> never seemed to do any good in his
I case Altogether lie was in a pitiable
■ condition. .Many a day lie was plying
■ his vocation when he really should have
i been in bed. Hut weak and sick as be
* was. he had too much will power tn
• give Up.
Mr. Smedley went to ''oursiy w
Munn's drug stole to explain his case
and. after doing so. was advised a
1 treatment of the Quaki i Herb Kxtimt.
. which was bought by him. and used
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• MATTY’S RECORD •
J 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 1 3 .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
his admirers by ills splendid work.
Matty lias been in the game close
to thirteen years, which is beyond
the limit of usefulness of most
baseball stars. In that time, too,
he has figured more prominently
before the public than any pitcher
in 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.
• The 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
shouldeis 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 according to instructions. H’
again returned to the drug store and
said: "I came back to get three more
bottles of the wonderful Quaker Herb
Extract. Since I used it 1 have found
that my appetite is good and I am
much stronger. I can get about better
than I ever could; my troubles have
disappeared, and 1 am so very much
pleased that I am telling all my neigh
bors and friends I had begun to think
that there was no curt for m\ trou-
to be in save- 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
Giants been able to rally to his
support. Ragged defense lost the
first battle several times over when
it allowed the Red Sox to tie th*
score after the Giants had oxer
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 twirler in Hugh
Bedient. who outdid himself in that
one game. Never had he displayed
better form, yet the Giants' star
might have won had it not been
that again one of his team mates
faltered at a critical moment and
allowed the winning tally to trickle
over the plate.
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 mor4 the players be
hind him were unequal to the task
that the veteran twirler was carry
ing on so successfully and that is
the reason Boston boasts of a
championship team today.
it matters not that the Giants
loijt. Their defeat can not detract
from the great work of Christy
Mathewson, and his 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
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