Show Many Football Coaches Are Opposed to Haughton's Plan Penns Penn's Line Director Declares Modification of Forward Pass Would Hurt Game Also Prevent Injury iy by Having Less Scrimmaging HOULD the spectacular forward S SHOULD pass which always sends an electric thrill of excitement down the loyal I rooters' rooters spines pass into gridiron oblivion I Percy Haughton the celebrated Harvard Harvard Haryard Har Har- I vard yard football authority and former head coach who is the founder of the Haughton Haugh Haugh- Haughton ton system of tutoring says it should be so restricted as to make tire the forward toss only an occasional incident of a a game The chief Haughton Hughton criticism of the I pass is based on the theory that modern football is beginning ginning to b be dominated by bj basketball plays plas which may soon eradicate cate the fundamental principle a of the game Also that the pass gives a small I and Inferior team an even chance with witha I a strong powerful eleven which depends on a grinding attack for its success Football experts and coa coaches hes in and around Philadelphia take vigorous issue with Mr Haughton They believe th the forward pass has come to stay and that any legislation tending to cut down its ita Us use would be a step backward So if Mr Haughton and his supporters at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to put over their modification program at the next meeting of the football football foot toot ball ban rules committee a finish fight tight is due Philadelphia's Philadelphia s gridiron men at least will back the pass as it is per- per now right to the last ditch Several of the coaches at Penn played under the old fashioned systems of straight crunching football and later development of the forward pass and then came eventually to teach and help perfect it It is a strange bit bitof bitof bitof I of irony that though the Red and Blue coaches are unanimous In defending the pass still the old Penn teams under the ancient system were able to roll up man many more triumphs than the modern Penn teams for aU all their forward passing passin HEISMAN FAVORS FORWARD PASS Though Head Coach John W W. Heisman Is away from rom the he university at present he is known to be heartily in favor of I the pass He not only used it to a large extent I at Georgia Tech but this year at Penn I it was the only factor that put life and I confidence into his and enabled his team m to stake stalie the game comeback it did It It would hurt football greatly If the pass were so modified as to greatly re restrict restrict restrict re- re strict Its use remarked Dr Charles M M. Buck Buel Wharton captain of the big 96 Penn tenn team and who has coached the theline theline theline line since There was a general demand on the part of the public to see the ball ban banever ever since some of the famous hidden ball tricks were pulled There have beep been criticisms of teams which have concealed ban ball tricks ever since The forward pass is not only spectacular spectacular spec spec- from a spectators spectator's point of view but it is a great asset to any team no matter how strong it may be in line plunging and end running In a pass the spectators not only know where the theban ball ban is all ajl the time but watch it in its flight light The idea of having a free for all scrimmage for the ball if a pass grounded would be injurious to both teams There are enough of these hard contacts when a fumble occurs without having any anymore anymore anymore more of ot them A r team In desperate straits would use the pass just the same as they do now and take a chance of its grounding or being muffed The re resultant resultant re- re scrimmage that Mr Haughton proposes would cripple some of the best players ers It would give any team a chance to rough it with an opponent and a large casualty list can be expected if such legislation was to go through It is equally ridiculous to say that football is developing into a basket basketball ban I game So long as we keep the basic principles of the game this will never i happen D DICKSON N IS SUPPORTER OF PASS II Coach Byron W W- V. V Dickson who was Helsman's chief assistant at Penn this I fall tall used the pass with unusual success when he was coaching at Lehigh and later laterI at Bucknell and Franklin and Marshall The popularity of the game as now reached was built up around the forward forward forward for for- I ward pass pass says sas Dick Dickson on The he public always likes to see one and the game has enlarged to such an extent the public the alumni and students have some rights to be considered You would have the same trouble with free for all aU scrimmages that existed when this practice was legal when a ball was kicked d out of bounds some years back a pf g dr Many were crippled i and lind the h re results re- re suits were so bad the scrimmage was legislated out of business It would be bea bea bea a big to rule out the pass In justice to some of Mr Haughton's remarks on the subject Coach Dickson says he is forced to admit hat basketball basketball basketball basket basket- ball players make the best receivers of of P passes Though I dont don't fear the game is de developing developing de- de Into basketball basketball- I I. I do know that big Bill Grave our star basketball center center cen cen- ter and Sullivan another cage athlete are much more proficient at grabbing passes than anyone else A basketball player learns quicker It takes much more effort to teach the average football player who Iho never played basket ball to catch a pass than it does one who has played the Indoor sport OTHER OTHE COACHES INDORSE PLAY Coach Roy Mercer of Swarthmore de developed developed tie tie- a sterling pass attack this year In fact the whole Garnet offense was I built around it it and It worked success success- fully funy He is is a staunch def defender of the play 1 Coach Andy Smith of the University of f I California attributes the great scoring of I his team this year to a sustained aerial attack SI of Pennsylvania Military Mill Mill- Milli i tary college also swears by It as do most of Pen Penns s 's advisory ory coaches this year Perhaps one of the most famous hidden hidden hid hid hidden den ban ball tricks to which Dr Wharton referred was worked by Dillon of Carlisle Carlisle Carlisle Car Car- lisle Indians against Harvard On this occasion the Indian back stuck the ball ban under his jersey jerse- and ran unheeded al almost almost almost al- al most the entire length of the field for a touchdown Though the public seemed to enjoy this at first it was v later severely condemned The famous Haughton Haught n system of coachIng coaching coaching coach coach- ing at Harvard was built up around a numerous staff of assistants There was wasa a coach for tor every position Whenever Haughton the head coach wanted a player he told such and such a a. coach to get g-et him a man The coach did and then Haughton took up his real varsity training training training train train- ing where the other coaches left off |