Spalding's how to play foot ball; . re mustalways remember if they have to go down to fall away from theopening and not block it up. The men who run behind the run-ner should always remember that it is their duty not only to pro-tect him from behind and push and crowd him when he begins toslow up, but never, under any circumstances, to interfere with hislegs. Foolish men going behind a runner will oftentimes step onhis heels and throw him when the runner left to himself couldhave made his distance. * The ends are particularly serviceable inthis pushing work, and there are very few ends at the
Spalding's how to play foot ball; . re mustalways remember if they have to go down to fall away from theopening and not block it up. The men who run behind the run-ner should always remember that it is their duty not only to pro-tect him from behind and push and crowd him when he begins toslow up, but never, under any circumstances, to interfere with hislegs. Foolish men going behind a runner will oftentimes step onhis heels and throw him when the runner left to himself couldhave made his distance. * The ends are particularly serviceable inthis pushing work, and there are very few ends at the presentday who do not understand their half-backs and backs so well thatthey can go up with them into line and give them courage andassistance by pushing after they have struck the line. To come now to the wedges or mass plays. Owing to the preju-dice of the public and the feeling that wedge work was takingtoo much of the attention of the players, captains and coaches,the rule-makers attempted to eliminate a great deal of this work. How to Play Foot Ball. 35 by the passage of a rule against momentum-mass plays as wellas the passage of a rule insisting upon actual kicks. This latterrule I have mentioned earlier in this book. There is no questionbut that this has done away with a great deal of the most showypart of the flying wedge, but rules against momentum-mass playing have not and are not likely to eliminate the use ofthe principle of wedges. They took off the weight which itwas possible to get into these wedges, and in that way werean excellent thing, but it would take more severe legislationto eliminate all mass plays. The rules of 1903, however, gofarther, and while not yet tested, certainly offer encourage-ment to more open playing. The mass play of years agowas not particularly dangerous in the Ing games, and, infact, it was found that a good deal of the trouble camefrom school teams and teams where it was possible for oneboy on the team to be considerably larger and old
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