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“POOPBALL THOROUGHLY DONE
New Book Just Published by Messrs.
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If anything, whatever, necessary to
a knowledge of football, from any
standpoint, is omitted from the work
on that sport just issued from the
press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., it is
not our fortune to be so erudite on
the theme as to discover it. The book
is the one compiled by Messrs. Wal-
ter Camp and Lorin F. Deland.
Of course it is thorough in its study
of the science and technique of the
sport. Nothing less could possibly be
published by these authors. It is quite
a natural thing to find that a football
player and coach plunges at once in-
to its discussion and explanations and
its diagrams and plots. He never
before found anything in which he
could so revel. Lots of good things
have been published on the game, but
they have all fallen short of the com-
pleteness and elaborate perfection of
the countless points of the sport’s
science, strategy, development and
possibilities, which are reached in this
work.
But this is not the point about the
book that will interest the general
public. Much as every lover of sport
likes to see a football game now-a-
days, only a small percentage of those
who shout at Manhattan Field or
Hampden Park care to know too def -
initely just how it is all done. A bat-
tle is a 7Sight«:.° =. ... inspiring
and absorbingly interesting to every-
one who is fortunate enough to have
a bullet-proof spectator’s seat, but
military science is not a popular
study. There is, however, a great
amount of material about the prepa-
rations for war that do interest ev-
erybody, if properly treated.
So it is about football, and the point
about this last work on the subject
is that its authors know what points
are of popular interest, as well as
what points are of technical import-
ance, and know well how to present
the former.
SOME ILLUSTRATIONS.
We have already indicated the gen-
eral divisions of the work, showing its
wide scope. Here are a few clause
extracts demonstrating the thorough-
ness of the work. The first is under
the head of “Three Points of Meas-
urement’’:—
“There are three positions at which
a measurement can be taken to define
the relative places of the men who act
as interferers with the runner The
first is when the ball is put in play;
the second, when the runner receives
it; and the third, when the runner
makes his break,—that is, attempts to
go through the outlet. At the first of
these threeperiods of the play thereare
three points for consideration: the pro-
tection of the quarter during his pass,
the’ deception of the opponents re-
garding the direction, and the quick
starting of the entire .body of men
used in the play. At the second pe-
riod—when the runner receives the
ball—there are two principal consid-
erations: first, to render its reception
secure, and with that is involved the
question as to which side of the quar-
ter or the half back certain interferers
should pass; and, secondly, to protect
the runner for a moment from be-
hind in case a man shall have bro-
ken through too rapidly, and with
this goes, naturally, protection in case
of a poor pass or a fumble by the run-
ner when attempting to take the
ball. At the third period—that is,
when the runner makes his break on
his own account—there are two great
considerations to be observed; first,
how to make his opening as safe from
obstruction by either friend or enemy
as possible; and, secondly, how to push
or drag him along in case he fails to
come free.” .
And here is something on kicking a
goal, which is to say the least, not
without definiteness in its very practi-
cal directions. It is under the head of
kicking:— ;
“The points to be noted, and which
the kicker will be better for learning,
are that he must establish a thorough
sympathy with his placer, and that he
should never become impatient or hur-
ried in giving his instructions. More-
over, if he sees that the placer is ner
vous or shaky in his hands, he should
goal.
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stop and tell him to take the ball up
and wait until he steadies down.
There is no need of haste, as the time
is taken out. The placer himself
should also feel at liberty to stop, and
take a rest if he finds his hands be-
coming unsteady.
“Tf ever there is a time when de-
pendance must be placed upon calm,
collected steadiness, it is when a
touch-down is being converted into a
goal, and the frequent failures to kick
goals that we see every season are,
many of them, ‘inexcusable. One of
the most common errors that is seen
in placekicking is that of endeavoring
to allow for the wind by the aim of
either the foot or the ball alone. The
ball is, for example, aimed well off
toward the side from which the wind
is coming, but the kicker’ kicks
straight at the goal. This is the
usual fault. Less common, but still
not infrequently witnessed, is the mis-
take of aiming the ball at the goal
and then kicking off toward the wind.
The only way to kick a goal properly
when allowing for a wind is to bear in
mind that the foot must hit the ball
in a line with the long axis; in other
words, a line drawn from the heel of
the kicker’s foot straight through the
middle of the sole of his shoe should
when continued, pass directly through
the middle of the ball, so far as any
side to side variation is concerned.
“Another thing to be borne in mind
when kicking in a hard wind is, that
there should be more force put into the
kick. The harder the ball is driven, the
less the wind will swing it, and a light
kick will not only be swerved from. its
direction more easily, but will often,
on account of meeting with that re-
sistance, sail off and fall short of the
This, of course, applies to slide
winds as well as to head winds. When
the wind is a following one, pains
must be taken to cock the ball up well,
especially on short kicks, for a new
ball with a wind behind it goes low—
unexpectedly low at times.”
And so it goes all through the book.
Whether it is talking to the spectator,
the coach or the players, the direc-
tions are of the most simple kind, the
wisdom always practical, the view-
point rational. Ww.
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