The ep36 An Appraisal of the Game Football

Hello there. This is Jimmy Powers coming your way with another story from The Tumalt and the Shouting. There, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed. Once again, I pick up The Tumalt and the Shouting, and open to the chapter headed, The Game of Football, an appraisal by Grantlyn Rice,

and will continue the narrative in first person. I saw my first game of football on Thanksgiving Day, 1892, before I had reached the dignity of long trousers. Vanderbolt met her staunch rival, Ciwani that day and won 12 to nothing.

I have been playing, refereeing, and covering football ever since. In many respects, I grew up with the game. I wasn't conscious of football back in 82 when Yale's Walter Camp worked out team signals, but I was knocking heads as a ten-year-old when Camp had his big guard, pudge, heffle finger, pulling out and leading interference in 1890.

The same year that Eli's McClung perfected the cutback on wide-breaking plays. I was conscious of, watch the ball, a camp-byward for his crushing defensive lines. In 1900, when cross-checking, the first mouse trap became fashionable, I was a senior at Vanderbilt.

I saw the flying wedge as dreamed up by Yale's George Woodruff in 1893 become a murderous mass weapon that had to be outlawed. Why I was a P. Green freshman when the six-man line with the center dropped out started the scrambling of defenses. Bob Zuppke's short spiral snap from center was newsworthy in 1906 as was the legalization of the forward pass. Zupp was the first to

drop back his guards to protect against passes in 1919, the same year John Heisman divided the game into quarters. In 1910 I thrilled to the power Pop Warner achieved from his single wing attack, and a year later to the deception of Pop's double wing. Prior to World War I, Percy Houghton explained to me his conception of floating defensive