Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-09-05 | Page 23 | Inside Football

I t t INSIDE FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Harry Hughes Favors Defense Of Somewhat Standardized Plan t Editors Editor's note This is another in a series of articles by leading football coaches in the intermountain intermountain intermountain inter- inter mountain area discussing the inside workings of a football machine Today Harry Hughes of Colorado State explains why he favors a standardized football defense By HARRY HUGHES Colorado State College My basic defense for given b be 1 5 62 6 2 2 1 with few a game may e a or a a simple adjust adjust- ments as necessary The apparent up line-up of five tive mere men mellor or six men on the line doesn't mean much since the assignment called by the captain on defense designates s certain definite duties The d defensive captain calls calla a sIgnal signal sig sIg- nal representing a defense to meet meeta a certain situation A different defense may be called against differ different nt teems teams under similar similar similar simi simi- lar situations on the field Individual Individual Individual Indi Indi- vidual team members make continual continual continual con con- changes necessary ary as do motion motion motion mo mo- mo- mo tion pictures of the games and scouting re reports Football offenses and defenses are more complicated than they ordinarily seem on the surface because because because be be- cause no two men are identical physically or mentally Certain fundamentals are logical logical logical logi logi- cal for a b batter or pitcher in baseball baseball base base- ball yet the delivery and end stance are re seldom uniform Hence 11 individual football players and their substitutes make a complicated complicated complicated ever-changing ever picture on de de- r 04 e f J i r s sHeres sHere's Heres Here's one way Coach Harry Hughes might set up his de defense defense defense de- de to meet an expected smash in this 7 3 lineup