Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-09-24 | Page 18 | Open Game Replace Old 'T' Formations

Open Game Replaces laces aces Old T F Formations J THE OLD rp FORMATION T J By TINY THORNHILL The old T formation was popular in the earlier days of football So were shin and nose guards laced jackets and handle handlebar bar ar mustaches hes In its time the T formation was all aU right But in hi this day of oC re reverses reverses re re- verses verses fake reverses laterals multiple multi multi- pIe spinners J and fancy shifts the boys would be tramping on each others other's toes loes cracking heads and generally messing things up if they tried to run plays from such close quarters Out of the football wilderness so soto soto soto to speak In the early carly came a juggernaut to menace the gridiron gridiron grid grid- iron peace and prosperity of the big three three Harvard Harvard Yale and Princeton and Princeton and other old established established established colleges and universities This upstart In the great American American Amer Amer- ican lean college sport was the Carlisle Indian school The rhe Carlisle Indians contributed one of the most thrillIng thrilling thrill thrill- Ing and colorful chapters to to the history of football Remember Jim I Thorpe Exendine Mt Pleasant Little Bear Guyan Kelly Gardner Calac and others of that era They augmented fleetness of foot courage and sheer power with the themos mos most amazing trickery of the times footballs hidden in the backs of ot halves of footballs sewed on jersey fronts and what not Not the least spectacular was the wa way the backs s lined up up-In up In tandem fashion One back stood behind right end with his mates a yard or orso orso orso so back and Inside so as as' as asto to form an acute angle The No 1 man was about on a line with center and the theline theline theline line was unbalanced Glenn Scobey Warner was the coach This marked the birth of the single wingback It was called the Carlisle tandem Before this then peculiar formation made its appearance the T formation was the accepted and orthodox method of lining up the backs Tomorrow Carlisle Tandems Revolutionize Football