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Show COACHES IMITATING SECOND TEAM STUNT Make Use of Knute Rockne's Trick of Starting Eleven Substitutes. Knute Rockne's trick of tossing his second team Into each gridiron battle at the beginning and then rushing his regulars to the scene as soon as the second period gets under way Is finding find-ing Imitators. But, according to Coach Charles Crowley of Columbia university, the plan will not be adopted permanently by very many athletic mentors. In the early season against teams which are merely testing machines, coaches like to give their regulars a chance to limber up and send them in against the opponents while the latter are still fresh and able to give their best fighting. In the later games coaches will find Rockne's stunt too risky. The value of the first score Is as high In football as ln any other sport, and few elevens will let their opponents tally first unless they can avoid it. Crowley also Is opposed to the classification "first' and "second" teams. He believes it Is to the interest inter-est of football to work every member mem-ber of his squad as often as possible, and not to build up two machines of 11 parts each. "Troubles of coaches would be diminished di-minished 50 per cent," he says, "if they wouldn't try to make 11 men a unit. One part Is continually breaking break-ing down, and that means the training train-ing of a substitute. The best plan is to train the whole squad ln the art of football and let each player have a shot at his position during every game." |
