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Show Georgia Coach Explains Famous "Heisman Shift" 1 A TLANTA, Ga.. Oct. 14 Few , football formatlona Introduced ,la the teat dosVn years hava caused greater discussion than tha "Helaman Jump Halft," which haa been worked with auch remarkable remark-able results by the Georgia Tech elevens of llb. 1914, 1917 and 1)1. fjllut there ia nothing complicated about It," insists Coach John W. Helaman, the originator, who haa lHen coaching Georgia Tech elevens for f"irly fifteen years. K n nlng the play, Helsman said: "When the shift Is put Into effect every man except the center ta back of the scrimmage jtne. The distance that the guards, tackles, ends and backfield men are removed from the line sometimes depends upon what kind of p'ay the boya are about to make. The whole Idea of pulling ten men of the team back of the line la to give to the team concerted action and a preponderating force when It la driven against the enemy line. "In lia It occurred to me that nothing much waa gained by aaktng my tackles and guards, alandlng shoulder to shoulder with the enemy linesmen to batter down those men- It was a task almost Impossible be-. be-. cause to gel ramming power Into a drive, a certatn momentum ia necessary neces-sary And that momentum la gained only by a run. "10 I pulled my guards and tackles back to frm aflrst line of Interfer- ence. The halfbacks and end form the second line. The moment the hall Is puxaed. the Itro lines of Interference Inter-ference move forward with all possible possi-ble speed and when. In a concerted formation. It hits a atraargllng enemy I line the Inevitable f :.;pns. The enemy line ta kno'k J down. In cases where an end r-m. a false kick, a forward peaa or some trick play la to be engineered, the double line of interference aervea aa an effectual mask. "The beauty of that formation la that every conceivable play can he . made from It. Georgia Tech makes praally all Ita pi wye from that f 01 motion line bucks, end runs, criss-cross passes and forward passs. Just how suct-eseful the "Jump Hhift" haa been when using the aerial at- . tack Is shown hy the fact that 75 per cent of all Georgia Tech's forward Kasea d urine; t lie past four years ve been completed. "It takee tremendous 'patience and painstaking effort to drill players Into executing the Jump shift with smoothness and epeed..- Itut generally general-ly my boys have succeeded in per-fe-tiug It by the middle of October . after which Lime it invariably caura. a heap of trouble for h opposition teams. Georgia Tcrh has been using that play for eight years and we never et have encountered a team that has hern able to devise a con l atatent de rouse against It. That tp 4 parent ly shows Its worth." |