Show AW M m M HE U iwa COLLEGE football plans and alms aims seem to be obscured in a number ot of fogs and mists so far as the public is concerned but I 1 can give you one that this is maryland university where dark clark late of stanford and the t h et T formation is the man on the job we lve have known shaughn essy f for or a brief matter of 27 years since he started coaching back around 1915 outside of lonnie lonnia stagg stage now with the college of the pacific this makes dark clark either the dean ot of present day coaches or close to the mirk mark and I 1 doubt that football has known any better allaround all around coach or any coach with willi a finer influence on his football pupils the main point is that and maryland with the full support of president curly bird has set up a 1942 plan that is well worth woith looking at tie the maryland system in this last spring practice said we had 87 men out who were divided into four 0 z A CLARK teams and matched together in games but this Is only a starter next fall fail I 1 expect to have at least maryland students playing football and I 1 might say ive been spending more time on fellows who never have played the game than on those who have and its surprising how bow many of these like the game and bantao want io play it once they get the general idea all together in this country we should have over young fellows playing football this fall even though most of them will never make any first or second team A few arguments in the course afan of an everth evenings rigs conversation it is only natural that a few arguments should develop one was the matter of the greatest fullback and the greatest running halfback clarks claris selections were normac Stand standlee jee of stanford and the chicago bears tor for the fullback job with george mcafee of duke and he bears on the running side our two nominations were bronko at fullback with cliff battles as the top ball carrier the maryland mentor was willing to admit t that at was the best allaround all around football player he ever saw but he refused to concede the point that any line battering back could wreck an entire defense the way standlee could mcafee was a great ball carrying back ba 1 ck faut but ill string along with battles about the 17 T coach offered three solid reasons in support of footballs T formation first he said it is the type of game the players all want since it depends more on spedo spec a and n III smartness than mere crushing bulk and power second it Is the type of play that appeals to the public since it is much more in the open third it is the best type of play with which to win games g am es it is the most effective winning formation football foot bali has ever known it is almost an unlimited threat against any form of defense you will find the T formation used more and more wherever the material is in any ly way adapted ki answering a complaint one ot 0 the main complaints against college football from many outsiders is this that football is largely a game in which some 25 or 30 trained athletes perform tor for the benefit of some to spectators who get no physical benefit at all he may not have the best 30 football players in the country he look for anything like this but hed like to have the best players 6 a much more import important an t idea for the general good of all concerned including the country at large and to this football arrangement also has added an allaround all aroun around d conditioning program for or the entire student body which IJ 1 even more important haughness ys idea I 1 is to fill all a open fields field s full of football players to bring them out by the liand hundreds reds |