Show 0 O 00 0 00 0 0 I 18 g FORWARD PASS PLAY WHICH 0 t g WELL EXECUTED ED 0 g PUZZLED MANY ELEVENS IN 1910 OO OO O OO OO O O O jn I A lQ DEFENDING SIDE 4 I t H Ht I 4 t I END HO EHO HO i Q 0 v O 0 0 0 O. O OX O 0 c t 1 X 1 I f f Q I. I Q 0 I HALF L I H LF tv I I t r i l. l j t i. i k ik 1 r o 0 HALF HAUP SIDE SIDE- DOTTED borrEo SHOWS ri THe L JYE GALL ALi ILZ F ee CENTRe TO Q giA ft R TO ro Ano ACK AND ANDIN N L O. O OP THE wAJO O D a u football diagram N must be he rather crude crud when It at attempts at- at tempts to designate the lie positions of oC players v In act competition yet et a ae I Ia grain ma y con contain t ala a u gg es t Ions which arc helpful In the lie above diagram effort Is made tu tO illustrate lie tho change In the lie e plan of defense which has hag aboS been heen brought about since th tho adoption of oC the thc new ne' rules The Thc theor theory which Is outlined Is that lii In reference to the thc use of oC the ends anti and the lie backs In tho the old day days It was customary cu for of oC tho the universities to pia play tho the ends well out with a roving ro commission lon neVor to permit a back to get Iet around their side Princeton held to that system for tor years Since the forward pa pass s has hils como come into tho the game and bec because of oC tho ho sharp t nd nd stuart hort attack which is IR frequently made over ovel the tho end or at the end of ot tho ho line It h Is the tho policy of or ninny many couches coaches to pu pull 11 their ends close to the tho a tackles strengthening tU tl o defense 0 01 tho lie scrimmage 1 line lino and bringing th thi 7 backs back with the exception of ot the lie full back closer to the line lino to act as sec secondary lee defense Of OC course courso this put puta a a. gr great at deal heal on the thc fullback fullback- but if it lt Jl Ju JuIs Is fleet of oC foot Coot and a sure tackler tackier ii h he can cnn be depended upon to guard his lila po poj well More than that it has mad the secondary defense one of oC tho time strong stron points of or the lie game In this new theory of oC defense thi HI center also atso pla plays s 's his part hart for if It he I If of oC the typo type of ot center like the lie star atari of tho the last two years ears t frequently Uy hi activity makos makes it possible for tor him t 1 tg tackle tho the man with the tho ball from b be hind Of at course the matter of oC defense re rea rest largely eh upon the coach of oC an ele cleva or upon the elevens eleven's style of or pla play b bi tic the above diagram shows hows the comparI compa rI defense of ot the present t ns as opposed the extended nd ll defense of the past paaL 1 |