| Show Backseat Driving Most Freak Training Methods Gone but Detroit Grid Coach Produces a New One Onea a a a By fly FRANK BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Heres Here's New Way to Train Grid Players For the most part coaches of a al all POrts stick to the orthodox method methods of developing their charges but occasionally occasionally oc oc- a coach pops up who ha has the cour courage ge to try some of or his pc pe pet schemes in practice whereupon th the II whole world sits back ready to herId her aId Id the coach either as asa a wizard o or as LS a freak One of the old coaching method methods that has long since gone into discard was the practice of sending through their workouts with heavy heavyweights weights attached d to their feet with wit the belief belie that once those weights were removed in actual competitor competition the athlete could fairly fly along over the tr track uk because his feet fed felt sc so much lighter Various mentors hive have employed the emotional pleas plea before import ant tames rames In an effort to work their players Into a fervor to to go 0 oat out and die for dear old Hector but but they are are inclined now now to for ret get et aU all tl the e oratorical rca stuff too Inthe Inthe in inthe the belief that men In a saner frame of mind are better equipped ped to play their usual game came in the heat of battle baUle Baseball players still stilt carr carry two 01 ot three bats to the plate with the idea Ides that when they face bce the pitcher on one will seem light and they can swing zwIn with greater vigor Coach Gus Dora at the University of Detroit has ha adapted a similar Idea to his football training Dorais who was the late Knute Rockne's old pal at Notre Dame when both were vere students there sends send his hi players out for practice on a heavy field The theory is that when the boys are placed on a dry field forthe fox for the games they will scamper about aboul like kittens Then too i if it ii should rain they would feel right at home Shorter Gridirons Preclude Few Records When Herbert University of Florida of-Florida fullback took the ball five yards behind his own goal line recently re reo and rac raced d yards to a touchdown touch down he accomplished something that hasn't been beaten in twentythree twentythree twenty twenty- I three years year yearl An account of ot that spectacular scoring scar tog ing run stirred the reminiscent mind of Parke H. H Davis national gridiron statistician to the point of ol commenting that n not t since October 15 1909 has a longer scoring run been made from scrimmage George i S. S McCaa of Lafayette Lafaette did the galloping galloping gallop ing that day in a game against Swarthmore Preparing to punt from behind his goal line McCaa like Ilke the Florida fullback was forced to torun run and raced the thel full l length of the field Afield th then n rii measuring yards ards fora for fora fora a a touchdown The record run from scrimmage yards was WM made by Wyllys Terry of Yale Tale against Wesleyan In 1884 The field in that day also measured yards ards In 1920 Benny Boynton of Williams caught a Hamilton Ham ilton Uton punt ten yards behind his bis own goal line and ran yards to score G. G C. C Gray of Oberlin in fn 1908 received re- re received re reo a Cornell punt nine yards back of his own goal oal line and also got at away war for lor a touchdown The late Walter Eckersall of Chicago In 1904 1901 raced yards ards to score after afUr catching a Wisconsin punt HERE ARE ABE THE BEST For purposes of the present record Davis offers the following interesting list of record scoring runs for each of the past eleven seasons giving the year number of yards player and play 1920 1920 ho Benjamin Boynton Williams Wil WI hams liams vs Hamilton caught punt 1921 98 1921 98 Charles West W. W and J J. vs Syracuse kickoff 1922 1922 Harvey F. F Sweeney Susquehanna Sus Sus- vs Colgate kickoff 1923 97 1923 97 John Hagerty Georgetown George town vs Georgia Tech intercepted pass 1924 1924 William Semi Senn Knox vs VI oe Coer Coe intercepted pass 1925 1925 A. A L. L Cronin Loyola vs VI St. St Ambrose intercepted pass 1926 99 1926 99 Gerald R. R Thompson V Geo Georgetown vs Lebanon Valley kick kick- oUt off 1927 1927 Gilbert Welch Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh vs West Virginia kickoff 1928 1928 Harold Stubbs DeoLson V vs Ohio kickoff 1929 1929 Lois Weller Haskell vi vs Creighton kickoff 1930 1930 George Wilson Idaho vs VI Whitman scrimmage 1931 1031 1931 Edmund Jack Burke I Mississippi jp l vs VI Alabama Alabam kickoff V |
