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Show FRANK K. BAKER .JLA-tJ I TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOA. 1 ' As a past master of football camouflage, Coach Buck Shaw has been staying awake nights trying to figure out ways and means of fooling the University of Utah gridders with his Santa Clara formations here Saturday afternoon, i Santa Clara banks heavily upon deception, figuring that it's I much easier as well as more fun to deceive the opposition than to win on sheer power alone. As a result, the Broncos use a lot of fakes, reverses and plays that tend to surprise the defense. Coach Shaw has worked out his own version of the Notre Dame system. He has elaborated a few theories of his own about the box formation in the backfield and starts a great many of his formations with a man in motion. Such a man, of course, must be moving toward his own goal line or running parallel with the line of scrimmage to stay within the rules. - It takes a lot of precision to play Shaw's brand of foot- ball because It entails considersbl 'multiple' ln handling. . Records show that at least three of his four backs get virtually vir-tually equal ball carrying assignments, and that upon a few occasions the ends get a big number of ball carrying chances, too, on reverses or end around plays. According to A. P. (Dutch) Hamann, the scout and advance guard for the Broncos, Coach Shaw does not claim to be a razzle dazzle coach. To be true, his teams throw quite a few forward and lateral passes, but they don't take to the air as completely as the teams do in Texas. It's the deception and the hidden plays that come off spinners and reverses that give him his wide open attack. Hhmann says Shaw was badlyi disappointed with the performance per-formance of his second team in scrimmage Sunday and Monday. In fact, the Bronco freshmen actually beat the second stringers, 6-0, and unless they have smoothed out a lot since then, Shaw may be reluctant about substituting them as a whole unit as is hia usual custom. Even though hia first string lacks experience, Shaw is pretty well satisfied with its prospects. John Schiechl (pronounced Sheel) at center and Bill Anahu, the senior end from Honolulu, are expected to have a brilliant season. Santa Clara has already nominated Schiechl as a candidate! can-didate! for all-America honors. Hamann Insists, too, that all this enthusiasm over the big center Is not merely Santa Clara pride. Hamann describes the 220-pound senior, who b foot 2 Inches tall, one of tho best centers he has ever aoea). And Hamann'a experience includes a brilliant rtevkark far Kanta Clara andlnff In 1931. a few-year coaching regime at Loyola high school In Los Angela and three year of scooting for the Broncos, during dur-ing which time ha has watched soma great football men. "Schiechl Is one ef those rare big fellow whs is fast, smart and vicioas with his tackles," ha said upon his arrival here. "He's the type ef fellow whs diagnoses a play and meets it In the amy backfield instead of getting it at the Una ef scrimmage." Shaw believes the rules favor the defense by their failure to place more definite limitations on the defensive set-ups. In support of this contention, h points out that it is not uncommon to run into three and even more styles of defense during a single gam. He explains further that all this shifting from six-man line to seven and maybe even a nine-man line complicate the offensive assignment too much; leada to confusion on the pan of th player and actually produce a lot of colorless pile ups on the line of scrimmage. H is attempting this year to counteract this "defensive dga" by fighting fir with fir. In other words, he is endeavoring endeavor-ing to throw two or three changing styles of attack at his opponents, oppo-nents, on the assumption that the variations will fore the oppoai- (OnHhiiMe ronowtas Pe ; . Backseat Driving (Caatlaua fnm Prwatiu rsaa) tion to maintain a more uniform brand of defense. A a result, the Bronco exaggerate) their unbalanced 'line at time with, five men on on aid of the center and only one on the other side. Both linemen and back shift after coming out of the huddle, and Shaw work hard for team precision rather than bank an the individual brilliance of a single itar. In many way the Bronco promise to provide the Utes with the most versatile attack they have ever faced. U. S. C, for example, banked on power and kick returns in 1932 when the Trojans were defending their national championship. Teams like Arizona here three year ago and Washington at Seattle in 1931 all relied chiefly upon1 their powerful running game to go places. Texas A. and M., on the other hand, used the pass here two years ago as its most dangerous threat. Idaho here last Thanksgiving and Oregon here four years ago in the t-6 thriller won by the visitors all played colorful but comparatively conservative conserva-tive balL Now the Broncos come along with an attempt to combine the stability of the power game with the glamor of open formations 'and the uncertainty of a flock of fakes. No wonder they have won 23 out of their last 26 games and become one of the most talked about football teams in the country! - I |