Show VARIETY OF PLAY PUT FOR THIS SEASON Eastern Coaches Planning In Introducing Introducing traducing New Tactics i Into Football Philadelphia Oct 3 If the football season of or 1908 IOOS does do snot not produce pr du e sev soy several eral cral times a as much novelty and science ciencin in the way of the new n w plays as any of or orits its predecessors t will not be the fault of the thC th coaches and players who represent I represent pre present sent the Dig Big BI Five Fie At every eVeryone one ot of these thee Institutions there has beeri been shown a disposition di to lush tush the sea season season son Rudimentary knowledge of the tho th game Is not being ignored but it is being rushed along and made subsidiary ry r to the tho strategic side si e of the game Same That this is so is proven conclusively by b the man nan e in which veteran play players players ers era of former days have hae been flocking back hack to assist in building up new now of 0 tactics It is doubtful if I at atan any an of the five fie institutions referred to here Yale Harvard Princeton Penn renn Pennsylvania enn sylvania and Cornell so much solid soUd progress had been made within a sin single single gle gb week It is true that Cornell Cornel and anil Princeton entered the field later than thal their rivals but with practice once started they the have han lost no time tim Forward Pass Does It The forward pass is certain to be productive of the most startling revo revolutions revolutions lotions this fall Without exception all these the e coaches coach s are ar working with it as the basis of their new plays play It has now no been a part of the rules for Cor two years but this time has been re required required required to familiarize players with ts ita basic principles Its possibilities have not by b any means been explored to their limit Accuracy in throwing and catching catchin the forward forward pass will be the to success with this play pIa this fall When the play pla was as first introduced it did not matter a whole lot how much accuracy there was In the play pla be because because because cause it was used in such an indis indiscriminate indiscriminate indiscriminate criminate manner Then the thc play pla was used very ver much as the resort of oC the weaker and inferior team which trust trusted trusted ed pd largely largel to luck In making the play playa pia a success Must Perfect It But lInt this year ear a team is so sc restricts restricted in the use of f the play that it H must he be to a high degree of perfection perfection perfection tion to be a winner First emphasis must be placed on developing d several players who can throw the ball any an given hen distance c with enough speed and accuracy to enable one of or his team teammates teammates teammates mates to recover it without fumbling The change in the rules whereby a fumbled forward pass can be reco recovered recovered ered only by b the player pla cr who fumbled It Iton Iten on en the passers side makes this point doubly important It has been one of the Inexplicable things of c f modern modem foot football football football ball that so much poor passing and poorer catching of the forward pass should be tolerated by coaches At any an rate coaches appear to have realized the handicap this weakness has been to winning team teams and anul we W may mav look for a radical im mi improvement provement this ihil fall |