Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 242, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1927 — Page 12

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CONFERENCE TO FINISH THIS TEAR Six Members Os Missouri Valley Conference Ask To Be Dropped • Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 13 —(INS) — The Missouri Valley Football conference composed of ten <?r tne strongest eleven in the central west, has opened for the last time. After twenty years of successful intercollegiate competetion under the Valley banner, siv members have openly expresssed opposition to the present organization', declaring it has become too large and unwieldly IpY the gpod of the student bodies it comprises, and have asked to be droped from tire roll nt the end of the present year. .• The break, which recently occurred at the annual pre-season session at Lincoln, Neb., was generally unexpect'ed and has left the situationtense, teeming with ill-feeling and dissatifactron. The dissenting members, including Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska. Oklahoma lowa State and Kansas Aggies, already have announced their intention pt forming a seperate league among themselves. Unifortunately, Oklahoma Drake, Grinnel and Washington. the four remaining teams, have been left : thigh and dry,” for they are widely scattered, and, although they feel they should continue binder the colors of the “old Valley.” such determination is regarded ns highly impracticable because of their remoteness to each other. 1t Spectators, no will witness some of the greatest battles in football history, this season, as the split has given great impetus to the strong riXdtlry already evisting among the various camps. Each team is making a furious'bid for Valley championship title, Thus far in the season, any concessions as to whom shall go final honor, is totally taboo. - o ■ ... — Richmond. — Addressing the Ministerial Association of this city, Mayor Lawrence A. Handley urged “that Richmond keep in the forefront of progress by adopting the city manager form of municipal government.”

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“Passes?" Said Coach, “I*ll Say We Have." And He Wasn’t Fooling Ry SQL POP WARNER also adopted the guards’, deftiise against the chert forward pass, but by ih.s time Washington & Jefferson had prepared n scheme /for offsetting it. In fact, so the W. & J. coach told me. his team wotOd try a few short passes of this nature merely to find out what defense was to be ’ used. Then the pass could be worked and was worked.

I £ Xr)j/O T e / IfflK V, y ! W' > AX? XX * J# < a.I Early in the Pltt( game of 1917. iW. & J. discovered tha| Warner w»s having his guards back out of the line to smear the famous short forward pass. In the second half W. & J.'s fullback returned a punt to Pitt's 7-yard line, close to the side of the field. As her running attack failed the sole hope of scoring was with a forward pass. The late Walter Camp happeneo to be on W. & J.’s side-line bench at the time and inquired if \\ & J- had a short pass to the end on the short side, toward the side-line. “Yes." the W. & J. coach replied, “and I hope they use it right now.” They did and a touchdown resulted. The play was successful for two reasons. First, Pitt expected a run to the long side. Second, when Pitt’s guards backed out to stop the short forward pass, whicli they knew was coming when W. & J.'s tackles crossed the line of scrimmage and fell behind Pitt's guards, backing out. That caused these guards to stumble over backward. They were thus taken out of the play. W. & J.’s line broke thr< pgh and disposed of the Pitt backs and the pass was completed for a touchdown. But the big problem of the short pass was just in the offing. The rule makers now legislated the play out of existence by preventing linemen from hitting opponents back of the defensive line before a pass was completed. So. the next problem tn connection with the pass was to work it in some way without the use of the linemen tc mow down defensive backs. South Carolina solved it in a game with Fuimen in the South, the play that will be described in tomorrow's article. Copyright, 1927, Publishers Syndicate

Dog Team Heroes Are Living In Luxury Now Cleveland. Ohio. Oct. 13—(UP) The dog team that aroused the atention cf the world in 1925 -when it made a dash to diptherla stricken Nome, Alaska, wjth anti-toxin, is enjoying the comforts of a hotel in a Cleveland

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zoo. Balto and his seven team mates of the heroic dash through ice and snowhave forgotten their early privations in walks through the zoo park with school children, showers, and steam heat when the weather gets chilly. On Saturday morning, the huskies, Blato, the exalted, Fox, Sye Billie, Tillie, Old Moctoc, and Alaska Slim

[ go for a walk In the park with school ■ children. Three times a day they have

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