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Show Latest Grid Trick Is Given Tryout by Wyoming Cowboys "Drill Step" Wat Ineffective Against Utah! Show Great Possibilities By Harvey Hancock Wyominr university may be In the rear In the conference stand Inn, but when It comes to pulllnr s;rldlron Innovations In-novations It Is no .ag:ard. Coach Jim Corbett believes) that when you haven't got the team, you have to use psychology. psy-chology. MANY MTKP. I 80 with Notre Dams uslnr Its "look-I "look-I step," Center collejf Its "slids Mlks." and Pennsylvania Its Msk1p-step," the Cowboys coma to front with a little shift that would make a West Point cadet look slip-shod. It Is the first use of the new type of ahlft In the Itocky mountain conferences. It Is as utidiue and peculiar aa tt waa Ineffective acalnat Utah and other Colorado teams. Master Corbett, of the tall-end Cowboys. Cow-boys. fi;ura anyway that If he can't win fames he can at funny enough, to draw a food attendance. I'tah fans will only ret onn chnce to see the unique shift and that will be on Arm !M Ice day at T.rOf;an. It Is worth a trip to the Cache valley metropolis just to see the newest la football shift. Just to show how wily mentora have reaorted to drill practice, a danclns; school, or sums other freak stuht In order to ret arouuo the rules. the quarterback's command and stands five j-strds behind center. Then they wait patiently fur the command. The quarterback ylls "Hike." and the men march In solid formation to within a yard of the line, do an about, face, atop, balance und then shift lnti the line. Sometimes there are four men on on side. Sometimes they shift five men on one side. tSometlmen they shift Into rerular formations with three oa each side of center. Kach movement la separate and distinct dis-tinct and dependent u.wn th various commands of the "armv captain" of the drill eiuad. The shift can be executed exe-cuted either to the rirht or to the left. They take lonr or short steps as ordered. or-dered. I VALI'ABLK. The shift Is valuable when perfected. It la deceptive because they don't know whether It Is rtne; to he a shift or not a shift. Hecause th opposition 'never knows when the shift Is com in lor when it Isn't: or how far the men I are rolnr with It. or whether they a golnjr to move at all. Then there Is the psycholorlral ef- j feet. A team stratnlnr to keep Its opponents op-ponents from pounding Its line Is Just1 a little worried at seelnr some peculiar pecu-liar maneuver pulled off. Just what will evolve from the new1 "drill step" Is uncertain, but It shows1 the Rocky mountain conference la up. SHIKT IK."rTl0 AXtC. Hlrht off. comes th question: Is It legitimate under the rules? I'ndoubted-ly I'ndoubted-ly It Is because th men satisfy all the new rules and com to a dead atop after the shift. Corbett has always been fond of shifts for his team and when the "Jump shift" waa legislated out m burlneaa he turned about and started looking for new methods of baffllnr his opponents 1 I And to all Intents th new Wyoming ! shift mlrht put ths R. O. T. C. or school army units out of the school campus, lit Is more Intricate than the regulation 'armv step and after aevernl weeks of I practice the aaptrmr candidate hnnwi snmethlnsrabout the rigors of military, I maneuvers. -tiFKl), IkKVlCLOPMEXT. Th ahlft Isn't bad. but It needs a lot of developing and perfecting before t. will work against experienced lines. Klrst th enure line jni'ls hack t |