| Show Blackboard Drill brill Silly Thinks By TED PETERSON MINNEAPOLIS Feb 13 AP Blackboards AP-Blackboards Blackboards tackling dummies dummies dum durn- mies and other present-day present football gadgets are just washy stuff in Pudge nger's opinion should be some sort of an authority on the subject He HeIs Heis Hes Is s one of the greatest players of all time time America America All guard for three years at Yale b back ck in the I says coaches could accomplish more by putting their players under something near actual actual ac- ac ual game conditions every day daythan daythan than han by using blackboards tacking tackling tackling tack tack- ling ing dummy and blocking dummy drills I Ione Ione Ione Im no superman nor was one back in my playing days said but I never found a man I 1 couldn't handle on the he field That's because I was trained rained right We used to play a 8 regular game game every every day right through the week Actual playing makes belter beter better bet bet- ter er football players than all the blackboard instructions in the world Id I'd like to have met a blackboard tackle back in the old days who looks 20 years younger than his actual 73 regards re- re garth gards development of the forward pass as the greatest single trend in the game over the last four decades The pass has made the game more exciting says and it also has made the ball job considerably easier by spreading opponents' opponents defensive maneuvers isn't exactly in accord accord accord ac ac- ac- ac cord with the idea of calling the play dead when the ball carriers carrier's knee touches the ground That makes the boys careless about tackling he says Id like to see a return to the old days where the ball carrier hollered down or got it in th the back of the neck I saw some tackles missed last fall that would've meant the bench when I was playing Speed and quick thinking made football players then and now said He likens football football football foot foot- ball to the yard dash the theman theman theman man who gets the fastest start usually is the man who finishes on top played nine minutes min mm- utes of football at the age of 65 in a veterans' veterans charity game in St. St Paul He played all but a few minutes of a game at 54 as a member of an star all-star group in a a game against a group of Ohio State all admirers like to t tell ll about the time Tad Jones then coach at Yale invited the 48 year old to come to New NewHaven NewHaven Haven to pep up his 1916 squad for the Princeton and Harvard games Insisted on getting into a uniform and Jones rememberIng remembering remembering bering Pudge's age told the boys to go easy In Jones' Jones own words heres here's what what happened happened The boys lined up with an amused air Bang Pudge tore through and bowled over several of them harder than had they ever i been flattened before J |
