| Show FOOTBALL r MORE MOREE ORE E SCIENTIFIC OME GAMt So Says St Louis Man Who Thinks It Far Outclasses Baseball WOULD LET PUBLIC DECIDE EXPLAINS OFFENSE AND DE DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE OF BOTH GAMES I V Is I football a more scientific sport than baseball Coach E B B Cochems of St Louis university evidently thinks it is and advances his reasons for this belief He H saya sais Unquestionably it la Is 1 a IL mooted problem The baseball tan fan will tell t 11 you that baseball is the most scientific scientific game ever established est bU while the football bug will loudly loud I declare for football The purpose of this article is not notto notto notto to decry either sport since both have their followers and both their dis distinctive distinctive elements that are beneficial Neither does the writer wish it to tobe tobe tobe be Inferred Interred that he is against either sport or Its Us adherents This article is pimply Imply to expose the scientific side of o 0 both games and let the th public de decide cide ude In the first place it is necessary to define science Science Is expertness or ability to todi tod tod di d resulting from exact knowledge Another definition Is Us Is knowledge gained and verified by exact observation observation tion flea and correct thinking also the sum of universal knowledge Another one Is An exact and systematic statement of ot knowledge Before probing the subject it must be that we must not con oon round pure manual performance with manual performance predominated d by mental effort e g the mere mero act of running with a football as tossing a baseball represents no scientific ef of effort effort fort but is purely pure mechanical m l or the result of Instinct Basic Principles of Games Manual performance is a funda fundamental fundamental fundamental mental factor in the display of ot a scientific effort but taken alone it itis itis itis is simply a physical manifestation As Asfar Asfar far as manual performance is con concerned concerned it plays pla s practically an equal part In both baseball and football It is necessary therefore tt to look be beyond beyond yond vond this element in either game to find something which could be called scientific a aThe The basic principles of both games are Ill clearly exposed In the two depart departments departments departments ments of offense and defense In baseball there are nine men to a sida side or in an all while in football there are eleven on a side siBe or twenty two ho men In all The greatest number cf cr players that can operate at any anyone one onetime onetime time in baseball Is thirteen and that includes three base runners and a bat batter batter batter ter In the performance of any anyone one particular play only three men can operate In football two men are constantly In operation In every play and often the two safety men are likewise ac active active tive Uve In baseball ba a player may go through an entire game without ever being placed on defense This is an impossibility in football On offense only four men can ope operate operate operate rate at once and this number de depends depends upon men getting on bases Really only one man is on offense and he is the batter Whole Team on Offense In football eleven men are absolute absolutely ly h required on offense all alt the time The offensive tactics in baseball are greatly restricted owing to the kind of field they play upon and the fact that but one ono man can operate at one onetime onetime onetime time Also that offense represents hitting and running while defense simply represents throwing catching and picking up a ball Moreover the base runner is compelled to run to certain parts of ot the field of at play pIa represented by b four bases ba es sis siz home first second and third base Taking into consideration these facts the limited number of at men In operation the fixed places of at the field and the variety of ot offensive tactics it can an plainly be seen that the possibilities possibilitIes of play and the use of ot selen scientific title methods are perforce pert ce greatly curtailed Therefore the offensive play and defensive positions of play players players ers ore are necessarily stereotyped The defense Is compelled to cover the bases and to spread out in the field The players know absolutely that all the offensive team can do is isto isto isto to hit lilt and run He can hit a bunt long fly fI or a liner Should he be hit with the ball bali or draw a base on balls it is immaterial to the defensive team as far as their positions are con concerned concerned concerned Can Determine Play From the stereotyped positions of ot the base runners the defensive player can aD all but determine before the play I is made what he shall do should he re receive elve a bunt liner or fly ball There Therefore Therefore re fore the only use that can ea be b made of ot scientific methods is represented by bythe bythe bythe the anticipatory ideas idess of ot the defensive play pIa For or example the Infield and an outfield players from fast may know Juet juat about where a batter will hit to and consequently will vary their position to suit the play However his lis observations can never b be exact enet and andere andare andere ere are always alwa s subject to chance and acci accident accident accident dent Every game Is dominated by chance chanco renditions and all the science in the world will not win some of ot them tham The only proper use of scientific methods Is In the employment of them with the Purpose in view of ot reducing chance con in the greater cases eS eSThe the fielders vary their positions po be pause lause In the greater number of cases warns them that certain bat batters batters lers hit to certain fields Owing to this variation a single game may be lost whereas In the majority of ot cases it hould be won The employment of scientific meth moth methods ds in baseball will wUl always be ba subject to lo accident and chance elements and can never assume the evel level of an exact science No Stereotyped Plays Football on the other hand band presents in tn entirely different aspect Here me manual and mathematical nes can be drawn and aid scientific moth math ds Ids exploited Until the now rules were conditions played red but m tn n Indifferent role These elements un in unter iner n ter ter er investigation are rapidly being b re ref f 1 I I I Rival Football Fo Teanis T earns Which Wh ch Closed The Season in ih a Struggle Yesterday 1 A r k kf V f k k 3 t k vA a 4 b 4 C a k kS S 55 5 5 s sa a k kS S St S S S S SS St Sq SS S t q S S k kS S Y q a j 4 5 S Se Sk 5 S k e 5 S 5 Salt Lake High School All Hallows The field of ot operations while restricted by side aide lines and goal lines is not limited to certain portions of that field m ld The course of the contest can be car carried carried ried ned to any section of the gridiron In Instead Instead Instead stead of the defense and offense being stereotyped ed owing to the restrictions of offield offield field rules and the limited number of ot them employed In the execution of the play pIa the field play is practically free and the number of o men represents the total of both teams The number of plays that can be used are as illimitable as tunes that can be played upon a piano or words form formed formed formed ed from the alphabet The defense must vary to meet the plays In the development of plays the coach can draw on speed weight endurance etc to Offset effect certain combinations which he designs to most easily open the way of ot least resistance tance In the execution of ot these plays the weather the opponents defense and the strategy of ot field position are all aU important Important tant tent One play may be effective in some other part of ot the field A pertain Certain defense will wI stop some plays and others aro are strongest against it In fact there Is not one defense or play that is 19 not the outcome of scientific thought Says Baseball Is Easy Almost anyone can play baseball but in football the field Is limited One can play football but once a week The science of dieting and training is a able abig abig big ble factor In football but scarcely rec roe recognized recognized in baseball A baseball player can go out and play without ever learn learning learnIng learning ing a signal whereas a football player would be useless if It he was not thor thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly familiar with the code Even in professional baseball teams under heavy salaries the signals are limited to toa toa toa a dozen or more In the minor leagues six or seven seem to be sufficient No enthusiast in the bleachers is isable isable Isable able to anticipate what play playa a team will use or ought to use but fans can tell you nearly as well and often better than the baseball coach Just what play will be pulled off at or ought to be executed Baseball at the present time Is fg far from being scientific and never can hope to be made the equal of football along scientific lines simply because it has not the mathematical elements from which to draw and develop dev lop combinations combinations The rules and regulations reg restrict r the field and players player so that it will al always always a ways remain an offense tense of and defense def stereotyped and fixed r r |
