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Show Western Elevens Quick to Get Action in New Features ! BY WALTFR CAMP (Special Correspondent of The Stan-da Stan-da rd-Exam I ner. ) (Copyright, 1 922, by Tho BUndard-dar.l-Examlner ) NEW YORK, Oct. 21. A grer.t deal of discussion Is taking piaeo and ha taken place as to tho major points of difference in football as plnyed In the four sections cajt. middle west, Pacific coast and south. As a matter mat-ter of fact, there ore certain points of divergence but not nearly as marked as they wero several years ago, In tho first plaeo, tho east Is, as a rule, strongly conservative and when the forward pass first canio in they did not take the big chances with It thut were esaaj od In the middle west und In tho section lying between tho coast and the middle west That flection flec-tion also experimented very largely with extraordinary formations, such as "spread -eagle" plajs and the stationing sta-tioning of tho attack both In oxtended order and In separated groupB. Borne of theeo "aprcad-oaglo" plays wero also used In the Stato of Ponn-eyUanla Ponn-eyUanla qulto extensively, and with veteran material did seem to be ex-treriely ex-treriely lmpreslsvo for u time. Tho Pacific coast did more towards strategic stra-tegic suddon lining up, such aa the eo-callod "dead mun" play. Thla, after all, was a development of trick playa used sporadically In various sections from tlmo to time, but tho Pacific roast and tho northwest carried them out with much greater precision Of detail und led up to them In certain positions on the field. WJ.ST EXPERIMENTED. Tho middle west experimented far moro rapidly and largely with the forward po-Ms In all Its forma than did tho east, and ther was a tlmo for two or three Reasons when their men wero exceptionally facile, not only In making tho pass but particularly particu-larly In receiving It, The siHiih, owing somewhat fo tho influence of Holsman of Georgia Tech, developed more largely along the lino of ehlft plays, although .Minnesota, under Williams, also made much of these. lnterseotlonul contents have Introduced Intro-duced the development! of one. aeo-tlon aeo-tlon to another very frnly In the last few years, wlh tho result that tho game In all sections taken on a greater similarity, and It la much mom difficult diffi-cult to stat" absolutely that on aec-i tlon Is aheud or behind another in any pattlcular drV'd ikment. The following liatures do. In - ever, stand out Notre Dam a last year tarried the timing of plays, Woth Fhtfta and forward -laasca, to a greater height uf pcrf .ion probably than any team in the country. Georgia Tech had a stronger und more united phlft in which the. linemen took part, and Penn State, with Kllllnger, had I the quickest sharp backfield shifts. ill DEMON 9TRATE8, Chicago demonstrated to Princeton tho mystifying effect of changing formations, for-mations, sometimes morely cs a blind, at other times massing their Interference Interfer-ence , N Harvard. In the attack by which Owen scored, showed one of the most deceptlvo of playa In which the position posi-tion and the point of attack change aftr tho ball Is snapped. Iowa combined com-bined the kick, forward paa? and run, with excellent precision Centre, with McMillan, took large chances in Individual In-dividual plays. but hod learned through contact with Harvard the year bc-foro to build up a defensive lino at the same time. Lafayette and Washington and Jefferson showed tlr adVehtafffl of tremendous power In, line play. Altogether, as tho situation stands., the big eastern teams nro likely to trlke harder through the middle of tho line and to defend moro tenac-1 louely against lino plunging Whllo i the other sections are much stronger, I not nec-95arlly In the mere execution of tho forward pass, but In tho mask-! lng of the man who Is to receive It, either by sending him In one dlrec- tlon and then having him cut In and lurt to re i-lve thi- puss, or by nend-. Inir one man ahund am! rtcl.-iiH nm I another man and oven following this With a third man, It In uImo the strong lmprosalon of Ihe writer gathered from watching (he teams that aa a rule tho big famn of the cast muko fewer plays or tend to play ruthf-r mor slowly than tho w stM n t'-uim. Thy ore also rather more conservative In tho uso of plays recording to zone, and the use of tli kick for a defensive weapon. Doble-eoc.ohed teams, as Illustrated by tho Navy when he was then-, hy his rei-ord out on the coast, and his late wotk with Cornell. Showed tho baoka. gutting up to the line more rapidly and hence needing smaller openings, but that haa not been sectional sec-tional us I)oblo has been ubln to do It with eastern team as well as with w estern d amn, On tho whole, Inter-1 bectional contests have Improved tho I game qulto markedly by thla very Interchange of mothods. |