Show COACH YOST TELLS OF oi GREATEST PLAY USED IN FOOTBALL Brilliant Forward Pass on FreaK Formation Results in Touchdown Coach Fiel Pickling Fielding iD Yost of oC Michigan describes describes de de- de scribes in lh b the tho Detroit Times Tims the the Best Play He Ire E Ever r Saw Made l on a Football I Field Field and his judgment is generally indorsed b by the local loea public The Tho play pla was tho the ono one that Vanderbilt worked i l land and that resulted in tho the victory over two years no arn n Blake made the theIon thelong Ion long fon forward arf J pass ss ih that was safely taken in in by Stain Stone on tho the yard lIve line and ana immediately rushed over for tho the winning points of tho the game aDle Yost YOt tells tes how the pIa play when c essayed b by his team was ruled illegal thereby causing cusing Michigan l tho the loss of tho the P Penn nn game gamo amo that season Here Hero is it his story of tho the pIa play pla- If From Froma Ja a Michigan standpoint I mi might ht ap that the tho say pIa play which I con eider sider tho the greatest and most spectacular I ever c saw was not really great great for for it did not succeed But my ray conclusion is I think justified by the success of the play met with when exec executed te 1 b by other teams teanus When When it is b considered that every big biJ college team has each year a are re- re of more than par plays play each of which bich has been thought out with the tho greatest caro care it is naturally no easy proposition to say that this or that play was most wonderful Perhaps the fact that tho the success of the play P I describe meant so much to me makes it stand out in In mj my mind more moro prominently than tho the others others but but at any rate I never saw a play that looked so good to me Called for tor Strategy It was in the Michigan Iichi vania mia game gamo amo of 1907 We Va hid had beon undefeated un un- un defeated that day despite the lack of a 1 formidable offense Pennsylvania had a n wonderful fen ti Rn r. r i v backfield as as s Green c and HollenbacK and wo we knew that if wo yo won von it must be bv by strategy Fortunately our defense w was s strong tron i duo largely pl to the tho he wonderful work of 17 and Ind in in th thi first firt half haf wo we sue BUC- uc- uc in in pr hodin holding our our own on with ith tho ho Tine ea early n the h half 1 f Gallagher n l' l ha had bad recovered er d an n kick on on our yard ten line lino ami anft bon been pushed o ov over r for a touchdown so that o at the- the end of the period P Penn Pen nI was lead ins ing 6 G t to O. O f The Michigan is n tram train had shown bet Ietter Iet- Iet ter than was expected and the tho bleacher cro crowd d wa was confident o AJ And d as ig for fOt qs me me- me I Im I'm Im I'm forced m to admit I was more thore dent than the bleachers for I r had something some some- something thing thiu up up my sleeve e o- o oI I had bad ad been working orkin over o and planning t and saving for w weeks for weeks for just Tjust such a crisis n at quarter had been instructed in in- in to o- o save savo tie the play play- lH last t minute and md none of ot our trick tuff stuff had hu been uncorked during the tho first half Play in the second half was vas ti lively tily ly Ih C with Hh anither side having int nn nit apparent advantage About i the middle or of tho the half with the tho ball in o our r posses sion ion in midfield I gave Ya mund the the tho signal i nal to open up Perhaps the thc reader can imn imagine ino what Ol my feelings were mere when I heard hint him call tho the signal nal that meant either cither a 3 touchdown or or-if or if unsuccessful defeat for for it it was 85 our last chance chanco to tie tic t tho r score coro made b by Penn carl early in tho the game caine Ie 4 67 ran ont UmI command H Quickly tho the shifted men to their po the thc center bent over o the ball ball juet fifteen yards from the north sid side of tho the field on on the o fh yard raid line Embs pla playing ins left guard was yards yards' to his left while no play play- ore were to the right of oC The other linemen took positions at varying distance to the tho left pf and anti Emb a po position which brought ht the ri right ht end nIl I to the extreme left side side side-or or or south end end end- of the tho field Wall ha had taken h life his l place a aft few steps further back than thau usual while knelt lt directly t- t be he bind hind Embs Embs- so Embe-so so o close that the tho opponents could scarcely see sec him Allerdice was wa about fifteen yards ard back Laek of tho the mn mage o line nn and l e easily siJ to the tho left eft of Worried the o Quakers The Tho formation had llad the Hie Quakers worried tho the p players were vero hurr hurrying int lucre here re and th there rc trying to find a defensive formation that thc they thou thought ht would meet tho thio- whatever play or it might ht be bt called for the ball baU ran backward n a step or two and then theu shot it backwardS backward diagonally to That player made a 3 yard forty pass to who hind had scampered down don the tho field fied unmolested lie JIo turned cau caught ht the tho ball hall in front of hi his opponents opponents' goal oa line lino and trotted the remaining ten yards for a a. touchdown while touchdown while ta tor tow yelled themselves hoarse Suddenly a hush fell Mur Murphy lilly phy was 85 standing on oil tho hue spot from front which hall hail parsed the ball ball ball- and anil 1 J know ho lu hail had ruled ruler that th thin tho pa pass s was W-tS illegal aJ HP Ill held heM that it did nut cross eros the e line lino tl from tho the point where it was W put in in play and for that reason failed to conform to to the limitations imitations tho rule ruo makers put on the z I It wab generally conceded tie afterward afterward after after- ward that Murphy erred in tho the decision D. D as 11 w wo Q hail had fi figured ur ll t the h play to such a ani ni nicety b. b and with ith such mathematical exactness ex cx- l that it could not po possibly have havo gone within twelve c yards of ot th the point from front wll which b had snapped it But Hut it was a t question of and ind the referees referee's ruling admitted of n no protest t Wo We lost host t the e hut hilt the fact that tIlt the very next next- week V Vauder uler bilt hilt turned turned lefont at it it- it the tho hauls of Se Sc waner wanee their ther rivals ri for tor tho the into a brilliant victory in lii the Hlo last minute by hy means of tho same alue play play and and with Thompson of Cornell Cornell- one ono of the best bost officials in n tho the country countr- refereeing iu in a measure my confidence in the play |