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Show Right Side of Line Easier to Play -Sutherland Pitt Boasts JStrongBand Of Wingmen Br JOCK SUTHERLAND Pittsburgh Coach PITTSBURGH. Nov. SO-Soma right to left end or from right to left tackle. They contend that end and tackle play should be about the earns on either sids. There is a difference, dif-ference, however, and It Is not altogether alto-gether a Question, of mental hasard. either, although that probably has a part in it. This season the Sutherland Pittsburgh has. or. rather, had. three right ends and only one left end. Frank Souchak, a real All-America, and Paul Shaw and Fabian Hoffman were right ends. Bill Daddio. the equal of Souchak, was a left end. In a normal schedule Daddls would require some rslief. so we hsd to try other boys at his position. All had difficulty, but I believe that Souchak now la ready to play at either sids, although naturally hs is a great right end. Why should the right side be easier to play? Defensively, It might be becauss most of the teams Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh has met this year have blocked better when running to their right against our left. Thus, despite the Increasing diversity di-versity of attack In modern football, we usually find the finest defensivs men on the left side of the line. To offset this, of course, we must have accomplished blockers on the right to meet these crack defense men. Right ends and tackles have to be superlative blockers, and when they are. In my opinion, even up for any trouble they may find in playing on the left when the other side has the ball. Many clubs run plays to ths right all day becausa It's so hard to get linemen to pull out and block to the left. It works on ths same principle as a right-handed halfback often finding find-ing It difficult to run to the left, or attempting to pass while bearing In that direction. It's a matter of muscular mus-cular and mental conditioning and equilibrium. It would be a simple matter for a left-handed player, but how many southpaws do you find In football? Naturally a player Is not topnoteh if hs cannot run to the left as well as to the right. The only exception is In the back field when a player runs to ths left and attempts to pass. No back can run to the lsft and pass right-handed with ease un's he Is ambidextrous. Otherwise Other-wise he must atop before hs throws, unless he chucks a short pass to the left flat This can be done with comparative com-parative eass. Don't forgot that a college coach deals with young players, and usually has no more than six or seven finished performers capable of executing plays to perfection after af-ter weeks of drill. In 1J8 Pittsburgh had only three tackles Tully, Corson and Miks Oetto. Tully was a sophomore. Corson a junior reserve inu levuo naa pujvu a li'.tle bit in the Roee Bnwl the y:.-r before, but very little prior to lh?t game. Cetto. however, came to camp in perfect shape and ran and blocked j as few linemen have for the Panthers. Pan-thers. Ws had Toby TJansa at left half and tried to put Getto at left tackle to run ahead of Toby on reverses, but Mike simply could not play left tackle. He went to right tackle and became an All-America and aa all-time all-time tackle In Put history. In the IS years that 1 have coached Pittsburgh only five of our best ends came to school as players of that poeitioa. Four. of them were Honey Ouar-Ino, Ouar-Ino, Joe Doncheas, Tsd -Dailey and Muggey Skladany. The other is our current and brilliant Frank Souchak. Sou-chak. Of this year's four, three played other positions. Bill Daddio bad been a fullback, guard and center prior to landing at end on our freshman squad. Fabian Hoffman, who caught the pass that led to our first touchdown against Notre Dame, was a high school tackle, but as he weighed only 175 pounds last season, we be-j lieve that he would make a better) end. He had the speed and has picked up aa additional five pounds ' Paul Shaw played full and halfback half-back In high school. Looking back.! thsre were Harvey Rooker and Vera Baxter, two of our greatest, who played full In high school. Speaking of ends, then is no end to a player's possibilities la football. |