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Show PENNSYLVANIA USING SIMPLE GRID PLAYS. Coacti Young Has Done Away With Complicated System. Coach Lou Young, who succeeded John Helsman as director of affairs football at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, this fall adopted the slogan "Not xnany plays, but have them perfect." Young is steering the right course. Every season football teams are ruined by half learning 35 to 50 plays and persons wonder why they lost. The players had too much to remember. Mentally they were strong, but their mechanical execution was poor. Fundamentals Funda-mentals had been neglected In the wild desire to keep the other fellow fooled. Simplicity, power, paucity of plays Is the keynote of a strong offense. Young has endeavored to follow this basis scheme at Pennsylvania. For years it has been Andy Smith's system at the University of California to bowl over the opposing teams, with a repertoire of about six or eight plays. In fact, In the preliminary guines not more than three or four have been used In running up big scores. Glenn Warner, has not given Pitt a flock of plays, and still the Panthers have been able to make a lasting record. rec-ord. It has long been a Warner byword by-word among rival coaches: "He can ; tell you where the plays are coming, and they are so well perfected that It Is virtually impossible to stop them." Penn football authorities feel that the principal trouble with last year's team was that the men were asked to absorb too muny plays. Coach John W. Helsman, now at Washington and Jefferson, overburdened overbur-dened the red and blue squad with too many plays, and when game time came they were all at sea. Several times during the season plays were changed on the eve of Important games. , A number of trick, plays were worked p, but never used. |
