Show SPORTS MIRROR By John Mooney Telegram Sports Editor Observation Ward Professional football may not be a passing patting fancy faney but bu with wih Nevadas Nevada's passing patting wizard Stan San Heath Heah about abou set Jet to 0 pick up for signing a apro apro apro pro contract its it's s 's pretty fancy pasting passing at a that The Thc average a mountain intermountain football fan who sees his first pro game gane comes home raving about the thrills and nine times out of 10 his biggest thrills came on the wide openness s of tho the play pay for pay circuits circuit's offensives Some of the more conservative of the Ule college coaches viewing with alarm the cro crowd d appeal of their currency-conscious currency brethren have tried to pass over the pro innovations But the man who couldwell could p well take talce credit for opening up the pro game g-ame claims theres there's definite soundness in the pros' pros aerial attacks aside from the crowd appeal E. E L. L Curly for 30 years rears Cars pla player er and coach of oC the Green Green Bay a Packers in the National National Na Na- al Pr Professional F Football o 0 o 0 t b a I II III I II I league e a g u e said ald Sunday Sunda night Passing Isn't dangerous as long longas as you use common sense continued Certainly Certain ly lr we pass on first down doun and often deep In our own territory but we c dont don't pass just to be passing But with two tuo safet safety men back to catch your our obvious punt and the rest of the opposition opposition tion poised to charge In and block your our punt Its It's foolishness not to take advantage of this defensive lapse with a forward pass Theres There's acres of yardage between the charging line and the waiting safet safety men for your our passer to hit which Is wh why o we gamble as the c college coaches call it U with suicide passes And remember this pass clement K your punter when he docs does kickI kickI kick I recall a n particular pla play we used a against the colle college e all- all stars a few years ears ago We e were leading b. b by a point or two and when the tho collegians punted out of f bounds on our one foot line eer everyone one expected us to freeze freele he tie ball for the remaining seconds seconds sec see of or the half So Soe we e carried out lt the deception and lined up In regular We e faked Into the line and then picked up Don Hutson streaking on the theO theD 0 O D for lor a 9 yard 99 ard scoring pla play o Dangerous Vh Why Even Een If the thess pass ss were vere intercepted It would have haye been the collegians' collegians ball at and the time would have iia run out We Ve gambled and eft dt the field with a comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able point eight-point margin at the tall half Lambeau continued We Ve pass its it's logical You dont don't see us flipping lipping any flat passes inside our yard 10 line but well we'll pass j just st the same in that position on the field if the situations situation's right Until Until Lambeau came along some 30 39 years ago to organize the Green GreenBay GreenBay GreenBay Bay Packers and revolutionize professional football the forward pass pass had been a desperation measure measure meas meas- ure lire one you OU used when it was third down and you had a heap of yardage t to make up r We Ve reasoned Curly said sard that if we ve could connect now and then With a third down pass when it was expected we ought to be able ablett tp tt hit once in awhile when it wasn't expected Lambeau was oh so right in his suppositions which marked t. t gi the e beginning of the aerial arm as asa asa asa a a- potent poten offensive weapon in pro football even though some of the college confraternity still consider t the e third down the logical spot for the forward pass I Of course for some 10 years cars Lambeau and the Packers had pon pan Hutson on the receiving end of those passes and In Hutson there here was no greater when I It same came to pass catching Will VIlI there ever be another Hutson we ve asked I If there Is I get him was vas Lambeau's comment J But even Hutson's Huton's gr greatness atness might never ne had hit Wt Its heights were It not for Cor the cagy Lam- Lam eau Cau We Ue changed our pass pattern pattern pattern pat pat- tern for every ery game Iame L Lambeau laughed but even m then It was nothing for a halfback and end endito ito to t time tuo-time time o-time D Din m. m Of course when I they the did that we e used him hima himas a as a dec decoy and ran them Thc They even fn tried to hold Don In the theline line Jine and i- i sometimes wed we'd bring him liim around like an end around and pass to him in in the opposite flat It was wa pretty pett hard to hold then i II But Lambeau became cat jal al as he watched his ash toboggan to the be floor Football Changes hanges every year the offenses and defenses come and go but one actor factor is constant spirit constant spirit and determination determination determination de de- de- de termination never change A team that hat pIa play for keeps will be a winner no iv matter what the offense of of- tense ense or defense In 1980 as in 1890 the boys who are winning winning- and nd the most money will willbe be the boys bos who are ate giving the most ost to the game There is no substitute sub sub- for guts and hustle Curly added Curly In 30 your years cars of playing and coaching who bo would you ou select elect as your our outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing eleven clenn cn the bo boys from the hundreds of Packer greats that you'd oud prefer to coach to toda today today to- to da day were jou ou able ahle to bring them all back in their prime e we asked l. l And Lambeau ran his fingers er through his gra graying ing 8 wavy hair and named Don Hutson and La LaVerno LaVerne Verne Dil- Dil weg ends Cub Buck Buek and Bill BUI Kern tackles Buckets Goldenberg and Mike Miko guards Charley Chancy Brock center Red Dunn quarterback Cecil Isbell and Vern len halfbacks Clark HInkle fullback Lambeau who who played under at Notre Dame plays I strictly under Rocks Rock's s tennet I Show me a good loser and Ill I'll show you a failure There is no forgiving a loss for Lambeau who started playing in inthe inthe inthe the days das when the center smash was the acme of offensive strate- strate gem Curly who gave ave the professional professional professional league its first real forward passing interest Isn't letting any Johnny Come spoil his in investments investments in- in vestments with lackadaisical play play- ing Curl Curly left at noon Monday for parts unknown in his personal I scouting junket but ho left a warning for the college kids I 1 turned down more kids than I signed this trip beca because se I 1 didn't think they had it Were We're changing j football every year but we still I need guts to begin with j |