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Show USE QUARTERBACK AS RUNNER OR GENERAL? Harvard and Penn State Employ Two Different Systems. Crimson Field Leaders Are Kept Out of Scrimmage as Much as Possible Killinger Was Greatest Running Run-ning Back of Year. Which is the best system in football, the one employed by Harvard, or the one used by Penn State? These two teams played a 21 lo 21 tie, so there Is no chance to reach a decision, when considering the score of that game alone. Harvard's system is to use the quarterback quar-terback as a field general almost exclusively. ex-clusively. It is his duty to select the plays, but have some one else execute most of them. The quarterback is unquestionably the thinker on a football team. The Harvard system l W no qunrter- y I rH . r 1 Croatia Glenn Killinger. back can be tackled, hammered, and constantly battered, and have the brain function properly. Harvard depends on the quarterback quarter-back for strategy. For that reason the Crimson field generals are. kept out of the scrimmage as much as possible. In the gnmes between the so-called "Big Three," O'Hearn of Yale and Dou-rle Dou-rle of Princeton made mis-takes of judgment, probably because they had to do a great amount of offensive work. Buell of Harvard, on the other hand, had no such trouble, as he was seldom In the scrimmage. At Penn State, Killinger, who directed di-rected the team play, stood out as the greatest running back of the year. He. was constantly used on the offensive. Both teams did pretty well. |
