Show Line Man Is Now Factor In Success of Coach Coaches e s Drill Green Men With View Of Developing Stars BY WALTER 0 Ol-MP Ol Sp Cc Ca respondent of ot time l r E Copyright 1921 by Iho ho he I N W yORK Oct 27 The 27 The lowly i somewhat ome hat neglected these r ears when tho tim forward for puss I has b been cn so much to tho fore I Is coming ito his own again I I Au All Ail user over the country countr coaches are ing their every effort to thu ir in lines Into pe bh for the Ule cru- cru cru crucial cial ot of o the tho season This does not Dot nean that the tor tora forward a rd pass Ib lb going out or that it will III figure I less in the last Jast season on tactics In fact It means just the iho opposite The Tho t teams ams that I V nave the tho lines line will 1 u use passes most el rh re has been a going tim tho rounds that time the forward tOt pass ol obviated the tho necessity for a a strong line that the team with Ith a 11 neak cak 1 ne no could malte up up for Cor or Its disadvantages vantages hi b playing playing an aerial game Bolt Bt It was only a I del delusion and time caches i aro are coming more and mor more to realize that they must laa linso 0 s 1 strong line Ime In ll ordem ordel to get cauls caul's i out of ot the forwald pass The line Una must ly jt enough to hold the opposition while the time pasq passes s sare are gotten cotton otten off in leisurely fashion and It must be strong chough fough to topi l e event Int the opposition from Irons pUlling a IlI n out and sending him Into the tte backfield to lay Jay for tor passes P rh ps the best Illustration or of I need for a strong line can no DC In th the two t 0 teams ot of tho the past hll were perhaps most profi profi-I profi proficient I cl nt In the tho art of ot forward passing were Noire hotro Dame me and Vest Virginia a few lears ears backLINE back bach backLINE LINE Notre Kotre Dames Dame's game gamo that ear n as a game that combined rapid s shift I pats pats-ln s-In s ill which the time line IIno fig 1 fig figured PI n with Ith e 0 and nail executed d passes I And thus scant ear Jt is the combination ot 01 deceptive thrusts Into tho the line with well neil executed passes that 1 mas Knute Rockne's Rochne's protests protest's sOl aol d sOld n erous The Te West Vest Vir Virginia team I with Rodgers In the tho backfield I de-I de Princeton so decisively ely nas nasa wasa a Ine Illustration of ot the necessity ot of a strong line Centre I accons accomplished I that year against West Yest Vh-I Vh Vii Vii- Irl hat what was supposed after atter time impossibility Princeton ton game 10 to o be an al namely namely namely to hurry Rodgers so soan soa an 1 to 10 eliminate fifty per cent ot of the r ot of his passes ThIs Thia they did bY sho shoving ing an extra loose man Into the a line a first class class m-in m and former end who ho in spite bf ot the tho at- at t at of ot tho the West 1 1 irginia line Ime got through and successfully and ruined Rodgers GOOD cool I nOX I Another more recent nil game this season eason I Bucknell Bucknell had a line Ilise but Glenn GlenS arner hall had put pUI weight and power in hi lii forward fe wall naIl al so that h he could adly ni adly revert rc to 10 forward passIng S 'S hit i he lie did ld with ms Ith complete sue sue- suc success ce cots cess s And Ann that Is 18 what hat se several eral of ot the big trams teams are aro working hard to du- du du P l Yale Is doing her tee best to st up the gap In the th the o ot I ii line loft left ny oy the of 01 ClOhs and ant liar Har I Har-I Harvard sand vard pains gains a a goo gool 1 deal cleat of at I front from hei het veteran line and eq that this wilL partially malo mako l up for the tile loss of Owen In b I tit Princeton is stif stiffening th ip that forward for ard wall stall all In the I hOlO that flat with two such as Snivel cl and L re- re lot loi g s throw throwers they ers they can holdup hold up laic forwards hll while their ends arid hacks backs get well down don do n the field anti and thu thus throw consternation Into the Yale backs bacis Ve West t Point remembering how lest year they had l tale lalo ale nervous till urh long for forward ard passes and on Hewitt as a line break break- breaker er en to keep Yale's secondary bU busy y Is perfecting the same It |