Show COACH YOST TELLS TS TSoi OF oi GREATEST PLAY USED IN fOOTBALL Brilliant Forward Pass on FreaK Formation Results in hi Touchdown Coach Fieldin Fielding Yost of Michigan an describes de de- de scribes in tho the Detroit Times tho It Best Best Play Ho Ifo E Ever Eer cr Saw Made on a Football Field U and and- his judgment is g generally indorsed by the local oca public The pIn play was tho the one one- that Vanderbilt worked and that re resulted in tho the idol victory over Soi two to J years US ago 30 wh when n Bob Boh Blake made tho the long forward fOn pass that was safely taken in b by Stain Stono Stone on the tho yard five line lino and imm immediately rushed over o for tho the winning points of tho game ame Yost tells how tho the phi play when hen r essayed b by his team m was Tut ruled d illegal al thereby causing Michigan nn tho the loss of the Penn game gamo amo that season Here is II his story of tho the play From a Michigan Imi I mi might ht sa say that the tho play Jay which I con con- skier sider the thc greatest and most spectacular I over ever wc r saw was tas not really great great for for it I did id not succeed But my conclusion is i I think justified by tho the success of oC the pa play met with when executed b by other te teams m I When When it is iR considered that every crony bi big college team has each year ear a 3 re re- of more moro than pa plays play each of which has been thought out t with ith ther the greatest r care it is naturally no easy proposition to 53 say that this or that pIa play was most wonderful Perhaps the thc fact that the tho success of tho the play I de describe meant f so flO o much to tome tome me mc makes it stand out in m my mind more prominently than tho others others but but at an any rate I never nc saw a pla play that looked looke so good to me rue Called for Stra Strategy gy It was in the time Michigan Pennsyl main vania game gamo amo of 1907 We bad boon been un un- do d until that day despite lack of a a. a formidable offense Pennsylvania hania had a n wonderful team with such a l n as KeInath ell Folwell Green and and we knew that if it wo won it must be b by strategy U Fortunately our defense was strong duo lar largely e to the tho wonderful work of and in tb the 1 first half w we e sue uc uc- uca c in practically holding our own with tho tIme Quakers True early in n the tile half cr had recovered cred nn an on onside side kick on our yard ten lino anti and been heen pushed over o for lor a touchdown so that at nt the end CM of at the period Penn was lead lead- in lug ing 6 to 0 O. I The Michigan team had shown n bet bet- ter tor than was expected ted and anti the tho bleacher crowd mil was confident And as al for me me- me Im I'm forced to admit I was more moro dent than the bleachers for I r had some somo thing up mip p m my sleeve I had been working over and planning and saving caving for tor for weeks for just lust such a n crisis II at quarter had been bern instructed in in- to f savo ao ivO the play until the tho last minute and none of or our trick stuff had been heen uncorked during the first half ball PIa Play in the second half was t lively l even en with ith neither si side e having an apparent advantage e. e About the middle of the tho half haf with tho tim ball in in our posses poss's si sion on in mid field I gave avo Was round tho signal to open open up P Perhaps the tIme reader can an ima imagine inc what my my feelings s were n when I heard him call the tho signal that that- meant either a a. touchdown n or or or-if if unsuccessful defeat for it was our last chance to tie tic the tho score made by Penn car early in tho the game I 67 ran rang out command Quickly shifted to their po po- po the center bent hent overtIme over o tIme the ball just ban just fifteen yards ards from rom th the north side ide of th tIme the field fild on m the fi fifty five n yard 3rd line r playing left eft guard was five fi yards to hi ht his left while I lc no players play play- cr ers erA were to th the rl right h of f i. The Theother he other linemen took pO positions at varying distance to tho the loft of and anti a position po which t brought ht tho the ll right ht end nil I Ito to time the extreme left ft side or side or south Muth end cud cud- i i of tho the field ha had taken his 1 place pIneo a it few fr steps further hack back than thau usual uHla while Magoffin knelt directly behind be be- J r hind bind so o so close dose that the opponents c c could scarcely see o him him Allor Allerdice ico was a about bout fifteen yards 5 hack back of the time scrimmage scrim ma mage mago o line nn nail and l easily yards twenty ards to t tho he left of Worried the Quakers The formation had tho the Quakers w worried orric the players were hurrying here bere a and there t trying rin to find flail a defensive c f formation that they thou thought ht would the tho t he play whatever play whatever it mi might aught ht h be ealIc called d for tho the ball rau ran b backward ackward a step or two and ana then shot i it t backward diagonally onalI to T That hat player p mado made a 3 yard forty pass to Magnum a who ha had scampered down tho the fi field eld unmolested Ho lie turned caught t the tho he ball baU in in front of or his opponents opponents' Joa goal I I lino hie And trotted the remaining ten teD yards I f for or A touchdown whilo while tors b ra yelled eUe t themselves hoarse Suddenly n a hu hush lh h fell Mur Murphy ur p phy hy was standing on on the flue spot from front which ic hail had paa ed thin the ball balland haJJ bail a and nd I I J know knew he lund had ruled that tilt thin pass paS was illegal ilk aJ He Ho lucia held that it did Ud not nut c cross ross tIme the c Jin line lino five yards from t the he point where it was put in play pIny and andor f for or that reason failed to conform to to the thC l limitations the tho rule makers put lut on t the u forward orward f pass It HIt was generally conceded afterward afterward after after- ward that Murphy erred in time tho decision as wo we had hod fi figured urea the play to such a nicety antI and with ith such mathematical exactness ex cz- cz s1 that it could commIt not Hot possibly have C gone LODO ouo within twelve c yards of the point front from which lund had snapped it But Butt i it t was 38 a question of jua judgment and nail tho iho r referees referee's ruling admitted of oC no protest Wo lost the gnaw game certainly but hut t time the hi fart fact that the very cry next we wc s-eek s k bilt bitt turn turned turned lefeat defeat at itt thin tho ho hands of Sf Sc Sc- m their r rivals for tor the time southern int intuit into a brilliant victory in ii tho the l last It minute by mean of thi the same 1 play play arid 11 antl and with Thompson of Corn Cornell Cornel H- H one of tho the best hest officials in in tho fbi country ju justified f in a measure my ray confidence on iu in the pIa play I |