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Show I Training Camp and- College to War on Football Fiej I ij : K " ' I School Team Restrictions Re-1 Re-1 moved to Allow Schedules "with Teams Not of the Campus Old Days of Murderous Murder-ous Gridiron. ' By J. B. SHERIDAN. eallEY arc going to play a lot of ffl rough-and-ready football bc-, bc-, tween college and camp. Tho '' restriction of football to the schools I . and colleges has been removed. The colleges once forbade their teams to 'meet athletic club or nonscholastic . . teams. Many of tho colleges became ; "unco guld," pushed the matter so far that they would not play any college that had a chance to beat them. They formed little leagues, conferences, confer-ences, etc., of their own and made 1 theso closed corporations. They had to glvo and take within the conferences, ' but they always tried to take. Many of the leading institutions teaching morals and conduct did a lot of shabby things in the late 90s and middle 1900s. They were always trying to "put something over" while maintaining to the world outsldo their littlo conferences that . . . they were tho purest of the pare. Thoy were not. Sma'.l colleges and many big colleges did menv small h: .... j! ' sa11 People, athletically speaking, bc- I forc ar. Maybe they will be big-, big-, fl B ; ' KW bcttcr People after the war. No t doubt they will. The boys will make KIR Th0 sfussle ivlll eradicate a lot I ffljj i '. . 01 Pettiness from human naturo. i I , , U s good to see tho colleges going M ; " outeldo of their "BIff Fours" and "Llt- U j tIc iN"lnc5" and "Two Deuces" and other 111; d03C corporations, and ifcking on all .j t mer3. H j There never was any reason why they M should not do this thing save "to pro-Pi pro-Pi I ' tcct themselves from paying profcsslon-l profcsslon-l R ! als- Vhlch. after all, was a pretty S ! , cood reason. But there i3 no reason M j i "why colleges should not bo able to pro-ffl pro-ffl ; tcct themselves from playing profes-W profes-W j 1 . , slonals when they meet club teams. iff j , ' ' Greatness of Heffelnger. ? i . " Thc' schedule honest athletic ! i? I clubs, like the Chicago Athletic Asso-'j Asso-'j W j elation. Now Tork Athletic, Club, etc. ! J ; Theso organizations are "on the level" II ; or they should be on the level. Which 'Hi' brings us back to the days twent'y-fivo j years aBo, when the Chicago and Now f h J1 j J Tork dub teams traveled all over tho ifl l j country playing colleges and athletic 5 S j clubs a3 they camo and went. L ; Meeting Mark Ewlng tho other day fl ! -.? " V' fcI1 Into a scncral discussion of foot- l.wjti i " bnU p,a'ers oll a"tl young, the great ifl F(fJ ' ZtQr3 had Icnown in ne way or an- ' "'" olhcr wa' w,at they had done. hov IJffljKl " , thoy did It and "who wa3 who" gener-. bfltffilwl ' 8,I'' ,n rUBby football. j ffljf j Mark Ewing was Hcffelfingor's pal at H I'B U " Yalc 1 d0 not know" what that may Wjffl mean to lhe modern generation of foot- hi , " ' baU P'ayere. "Heft" was undoubtedly M JIM ; - J'o greatest football player that ever Hfllffl V. llve.O. 'o doubt about that. Just how Mr Kij ' ff, E00d ne Tt'a8' an.l is, may bo gathered gjl ' ; 'rom this ulatcment: Today, aged CO, TIcff can Jump into a practice at Yale, or any olhcr place, end bend back or tear u;i an cntlie wing of any old lino. You may Imagine what "Hcf" was twenty-six or twenty-seven years ago. Ewlng played quarter behind Heft's guard and knew him well knows him well yot. For Here Is still a boy. Every Ev-ery yc.-.r ho goes back to Yale nnd shows the boys how the game should be played. Ho showed it Gordon Brown, the Chad-wlck.s Chad-wlck.s and all the great line "men Yalo has .urncd out In & past twenty-fivo years. There have been many great football players of whom tho world has never heard. There wcrs a lot of them Jn Hcff's day. tho early j0s. Haro cf Pcnn was one, Marshall Newell of Harvard Har-vard another, Lewis, tho famous negro center of Harvard, a third; Ben Don-reily, Don-reily, the Princeton end, a fourth; Frank Hinkcy, tho crack Yale end, a fifth. Then, oh, Lord, bow many? Lee Mc-Clung, Mc-Clung, Vance McCormlck, now a big man iri the federal government; George Sanford, Eill Church, BIffy Lea," John De Witt, Billy Bull, Vic Kcnnard, tho two Do Saulles, Jack and Charley; Jim Rodgcrs, the Chadwlcks, Charlie nnd George; Ad Kelly, Al Sharpc, Alec Moffat. Mof-fat. John Bell, Tilly Lamar, Corbln. Cranston, Phil King, Bill liorr, tho xuui iruta, oiiiuo v-raes, a. j, aiags, Everts and Bob Wren, Dan Hurley, Bill Crowell, tho drop-klcker; Ed Hart, Ed Holt, "Doc" Hlllcbrand, "Tad" Jones, Tom Thorpe, Bob Folwcll, Hector Hec-tor Cowan, Jim Hogan, Gordon Brown, Neil Srow, Billy Barnard, Ted Coy. Tom Shevlin, Brlcley Mahan, Barrott and hosts upon hests of great players. Some Western tars. And theso represent but a few of tho big Eastern colleges. Just a few. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth. No word of the great stars of Cornell, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Carlisle, Virginia, "West Point and Annapolis. An-napolis. Not to speak of tho almighty West, which turned out more great stars than the East. No mention have I made of Yost, the miraculous coach of Michigan, his Innumerable stars, Heston, Maulsbotstoi, etc., Stagg and his splondors at tho University of Chicago. Chi-cago. Eckcrsall Do Tray, Dcs Jardin ar.d tho rest, King, with his Wisconsin wonders; the Cochcms boys, Larsen and the splendid annual turnouts, Dr. Williams, with his great team at the University of Minnesota. It Is impossible impossi-ble to even think of a small variety of them. Then travel West to tho Pacific Coast, where there have been great football players since time Immemorial. The class of Pacific Coast, football' la high, high as that of any other part" of the country, save the East, and net voryjnuch under that. Think then what a wondorful team rn i-v.i i .. w """".I nun tuucning jYIUupoilS, must have turned out at the University of Washington year after year, four cara without a defeat, some .years without . being scored upon. Orogo.n turns great teams out overy year, bo docs California, though playing English rugby, from which American rugby giew. Nonetheless, Doblo's record was a wonderful one., It was made In tho "backwoods," as tho East thlnk3, but, bellcvo me, men grow great In tho backwoods and backwoqdsmcn, notably Tom Shovlln, mado great name; for themselves and for their states on Eastern football fields. From Ahe fac West go South, where you will strike teams, or at leaat you could strlko them before tho war, is good aa any you can meet in tho country. coun-try. Georgia, Vanderbilt, Suwaneo . turn out very great teams. Did. not Vanderbilt tie Michigan and has not Virginia tied Yale? Fine Open Game Spoiled. Of course Waller Camp Is the groat hero of rugby. It was Camp who developed de-veloped or evolved the American from the original English game. He wan belter suited to play the English g.ime, for he was small and -slim and a" very fast" runner. "It waa the Ens- EDCOCHEMSWISC0 llsh game when Camp began to play It Ho was a star at running ends and at lateral passing, a real English half back. But he was eager to dovelop a gamo which mado it surer that Yale, the better drilled and coached team, should win all tho time. So ho put his mind to it and evolved tho hand snap-. snap-. back Instead of the foot snapback. This chnrced tho game. Developments followed which took away tho charming element of chance which is so strong In the original Rugby of tho English. After thirty years' "de-, vclopment" and "evolution" Camp s gamo had beccmo such a cinch, so slow and certain1, so dull, that they had to change it as far as thoy could to the original British game. Which would tend to prove that Walter Camp, tho father of football, did not do a good Job. I have always thought ho really ' spoiled a very fino open gamo by -destroying the element of chanco. This destruction of chance favored Yalo at the time. Yalo teams wcro always beta tcr drilled and coached in tho old days. 1 have always thought that Camp sacrificed sac-rificed football to Yale. In any cvonr. he was the fatlcr of tho so-called . American 'Rugby, and for thirty years the most influential figure In tho game. At Iho end of that time tho Rules Committee was obliged to remodel tho game, undo most of tho work It had done In twenty-fivo years, which I have always thought was a tremendous sot- However, there Is no Yale man who docs not swear by Camp. To the Yalo football player Camp mado the world, the sky and all things thcroln and thcro-on. thcro-on. To speak of Camp savo in awe 13 in the eyes of the Yalcsnlan Ic3e muj-cste, muj-cste, a crimo punlshablo only by death. Thcro can bo no doubt that Camp has worked hard for football. Ho made mistaken, mis-taken, but was man enough to work to undo his mistakes. In any event, he J3 tho greatest football man In America and will bo to tho end. of his life. Gcorgo McNalr, who was a classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, was an old-llmo hero, a full back opponent o Camp and a flno kicker. H0.I3 dead. Alex. Moffat, another Tiger, was a groat kicker, and Willis Terry was-a. great Yalo player. Jack Thayer of Pcnn. who was drowned when tho Titanic Ti-tanic went down, was another star of tho SOs. Billy Graves, UUlt" Bull amlv Tilly Lamar wcro stars of tho middle' SOs. Bull was the great Yalo drop-klckcr. drop-klckcr. ' Lamar made tho famous fun NSIN, STAR END AND COACH, that beat Yale, C o, In tho last few minutes of play In 1SS3. Lamar's run .was a good bit of a fluke. Tolcr, his full back, muffed ' a' punt Lamar waa "on-sldo" and picked up the ball while on tho full run. The Yalo men were all behind Lamar, had gone down well on tho kick. ' So tho Tiger trotted unmolested almost the cn-tlro cn-tlro length of the field. Bull. Corwin, Stagg, Gill. Harry Bcecher, the famous quarter, were all on the beaten team. Minister a Bear in Mix-TJp. Hector Cowan, a minister, but a des-por'ato des-por'ato man In a football game, was a" Princeton star of the lino in the 03. Cowan was a decent, honest, clean-living chap, but a bear In a mix-up. "Snako" Ames was "snaking" tho ball through broken fields in Cowan's time. Amc3 was a wonder in a broken flold. Then camo a groat array of grand players. Heffelfingcr, Hickok, Butter-worth Butter-worth and Hlnkoy, at Yale; Hare, Minds. Knlpo and Brooke at Pcnn; King, Lea. Church, RIggs, Balllct and Trcnchard, at Princeton; Lewis, a truly , great center; NewcJI. Wendell, at. Harvard. Har-vard. Thcro was little football In tho West In those days. In any event, Western football was not famous. There were soiiio roally great players out West Kansas produced hordes of thorn, but as teani3 the Westerners were unknown. un-known. . hoso were the. days of the "V" formations for-mations at the start of play, and often during' play. The boys who sec the ball kicked off nowadays have no idea of how tcrrlblo tho old standing "V" appeared to the men who had to stop it Tho ball was put In play thus: .Tho ' snap-back held tho ball somo inches abovo tho ground on his own 10-yard line. Tho other players formed a "V behind him. When play was ca'lled the snapback touched tho ball to his to6 and passoa IL'to tho quarter back Inside. Tho "V" then started on Its way. Opponents rushed to meet It There was a tremendous tre-mendous crash. The Yale "V" of lSJKJ weighed around 2200 pounds a ton. It ' llad 20 yard.s in which to get up momentum. mo-mentum. It waa some "lank"' to stop. When It wa3 stopped tho runner very often circled out and made an end da3h. You had to guard against that' Day of the Flying 'Welge. In the middle 00s Walter Doland, a Harvard theorist, evolved what they called a "flying V" or "flying jvcdgo" and applied It to various plays. It was a holy terror. Dolanrl retfredt'the wings of his" "V"Tnto their own' tcrrl- "'( . ,r t. ", 1 jiMMmi mm YAELET XfggL PLAYER AND 'COACH 1 tory. The snap or quarter back stood with tho ball on tho ten-yard line. As soon after the call of "play" as was desirable the two wings of the "V" started on their journey into cnomy territory ter-ritory via the quarter back. Tho wings Joined at tho back, which put the ball into play as they Inclosed him. Then, with a great momentum behind it, tho "V" went on Its Juggcrnautlan journey., Imagine tcngrcat, husky, fast follows, fol-lows, weighing almost a 'ton, coming at you with the momentum of a thlrty-flvc-ynrd run behind theml Doland varied this attack by what was called, a ' "criss-cross." This play was developed by having tho wings of the "V" time their approaches so that ono of them could pass In fron of and clear the other as they passed the snap back. Ono wing wont to the left, the other to tho right Behind ono 1 wing was the man who. was .running with tho ball. No matter1 where he ran tho man with tho ball had llvo intcrfercrs. all going at top. speed and' all working together In perfect cohesion. co-hesion. Doland applied varieties of this play to the scrimmage. Ho would retire certain cer-tain men, often tho entire team savo tho snap back, and, giving them space enough to get up- steam, send them smashing at the opposing line. Tho defenslvo side was obliged to wait until the ball was snapped before It dared move. These "V" plays injured so many players that they had to bo discontinued. discon-tinued. They proved 113 dangerous to tho attackers as to tho attacked. The daya ot tho "Hying wedges," "criss- ' crosses," etc., were marked by Innumerable In-numerable casualties. The hospitals were always full In the .iys of Doland. Ho was an architect, yr something like that; never a coach. He merely -mado - CAYOU'- CARLISLE v . AGREAT INDIAN PLAYERj 'j ' tho class played In the Vfeit. ' great coach, turned out a ho:ttil coaches at Michigan. Dan MeG.: j up odd plays. Harvard, mado great gains with them at first, but, somehow or other, Yalo and Princeton and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania would beat Harvard. Plying Wedge in Battle. When Gen. von Hutior. tho victor of Kiga, started his veiled marches Into battle, got his army corps ready from thirty to sixty miles behind tho lino of battle and sent them marching, at top speed, Iifto the fray at San Quontln, I was irrestlbly reminded of Deland's "flying wedges." To cs'cape airplane and other -observation and to recreate the important element' of surprise, Von Hutler arranged his troops In' battle array far behind the lino of attack, and, having got them ready, sent them smashing in with great momentum upon tho stationary lines of the foe. - It waa tho "flying wedge" over again. Which once moro Illustrates the analogy llnln'nn ",. l. II 1 iuwLu.m anu nar ana points opt what excellent training rugby for the game of games. Thcro was but ono way to break up or stop tho old, slow-moving wedge to dlvo In upon tho feet of tho advancing 4 players and, by throwing your body upon them, trip them up. It was brutal f work for defenders. But It was done. ' Ono clever little chap could break up a groat "V." The flying wedges and criss-crosses wero harder to Jiandle. Y'bu could not throw yourself down, for the -play might be away from you. -So you had to chargo In head Urst Into the melee. It was terribly hard work; so hard that many men wero disabled and the plays ruled out by making It foul to start any abovo a certain num-bor num-bor of men, first seven, then Jive, then three, more than ten yards" bohlnd the lino of tho ball. the past fifteen years thorc has not heeu much Jlffcrcnco bo.tween tho class of football played in the East as against :- ptp.i or lost, mauc anuw-ville. anuw-ville. great on tho football , Gulgan set a new era for til1 South when Vanderbilt tied J& ' Ed Cochems, a pupil of PM 1 Wisconsin, took tho team of P- $ Unl ers.ty about 100C and mJ ckrful record with it- t Cochems had this great teas-hist teas-hist year of the new rules, ofji- ; uarci pass. He conceived a ; idea -of tho new pass, which . 'tho ball should bo throv.-n liks ball, instead of being tossed & t ket hull, or as the football cj tossed. So, assisted by two , men with exceptionally long fl irgc .hands, Cochems esti standard for the forward pas3- never been equaled- It wns ce: 1 unusual for tho St. Loula tcW- 1 passes Ji-ZQ yards, the JfcS thrown likcr a baseball, sharftf -; tlft line. I havq never seen J-M tr.gaged In Red Cror-3 work New Rules Helped Game jl Tho chango In the rules n,c'l rush lines a yard apart, preveJB than thrco men being massed m tho lino and Introduced th0 JM pass holpcd tl Paine a lot open and interesting. J hartlM liked tho forward pass, It is ' tlon of tho off-side rule, wlu JU fundamental-in football. altm who Introduced Interference, ways been imposing upon mental. Camp's Influence in U Committee always has been dcMj While I. must admit that th0M tho best posslblo training for must also admit a sncakkiff WM for tho original English E' H It gives moro room for sis"1 ruiintns,slatcrnl passing, clc. WM , be played' without so much dilHj traihinc |
