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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

SECTION 2
EIGHT PAGES

UNIVERSITY

OF

KENTUCKY,

SPORTS AND
SOCIETY

KENTUCKY

SEPTEMBER 20,

VOLUME XX

LEXINGTON,

DANFORTH

SIZES UP WILDCATS

Watch Clemson, Warning;
Southern Sports Authority
Thinks Team Is Improving

1929

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Gamage Talks On "Football Tactics"
WATCH

OUT, MR. CONFERENCE!

Wildcat Mentor Stresses
Fundamentals In Speech
Over Radio Station WHAS

Editor's Note The following article on the chances of the
Kentucky Wildcats in the Southern Conference race this year
appeared in The Lexington Herald Saturday, September 14:
BY ED DANFORTH

Constitution Sports Editor
They were a day late in
LEXINGTO, Ky., Sept. 13.
starting scrimmage at the University of of Kentucky. Head
Coach Harry Gamage met his class in gridiron dynamics for
the first practice of the season Monday, but he did not order
his squad to scrimmage until Tuesday afternoon. That sort
of set a precedent at Stoll Field. The young coach, schooled
in the iron precincts of Bob Zuppke's at Illinois, usually sends
his candidates to bat the very first day. Railbirds here shook
their heads sadly at the amazingly dilatory tactics of Coach
Gamage this year. They sensed the'young man was softening a bit.
So in spite of the fact that the Kentucky Wildcats reported a week later than the rest of the conference, they already
are farther along than most of them. Already several of the
varsity veterans are complaining that they need more opposition than the second team can offer.

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The Blue Grass country is enjoy- - i
ing this week a spell of real foot- - fore the Tech game. In fact, Dan
trfc rather
ball weather. Autumn came in a'McGugin attributed
ragged DhVSlcal condition of his
tnmith nhpnri nf fimp fnr n. nnn-nnl- l.
They call it vest weather up here, team the day he played Tech to the
meaning that that garment feels pulling and hauling and knocking
pretty good in the morning and about they received at the hands
late in the afternoon. The brief of the gigantic Kentucky line. Only
cool spell put pepper into the two- - the lack of backfield strength kept
workouts; oh, yes, Coach the Wildcats out of first division
Harry works his lads mornings and last season; their one ball carrier
afternoons, with blackboard drills was Will Ed Covington, the beanbetween times. He learned his foot- pole quarter, who had to do all the
ball in a
environment and work and therefore was capable of
has brought the same atmosphere to being stopped.
This time the Wildcats have anthis campus where not so long ago
football was taken rather casually other mountainous forward wall
what with hoss racing and fox hunt- and more backfield strength and
ing and dove shooting to intrigue the more good reserves. Will Ed Covington, the beanpole quarterback, is
community.
still here and weaves around as of
Improved Eleven
Kentucky's football team this year yore. But he has helping a fine
was rated in the early form sheets looking fullback, the elder Phipps
lad
as an improved eleven that should brother and a hard-drivibe placed in the first eight or ten named Carejj Spicer, a reformed
of the conference list. Coach Gam- end, and ano'ther tall, snaky speed
age thinks his team will be better marvel styled "Shipwreck" Kelly.
than last year; and last year, mind All four of these boys can kick;
you, Vanderbilt had a terrific time Covington and Spicer can pass. All
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beating them in Nashville Just be

&AWfiy&'

COACH

CSMAGS
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By Harry Gamage
Ladies and Gentlemen of the radio audience:
The subject of football technique
was cast upon me and I would like
to make some slight correction before getting under way. Instead of
the word 'technique' I would like to
substitute the word 'tactics.' I am
sure that those who pay, in other
words, spectators, or fans, are not
Interested in the technical means of
physical efforts such as fundamentals. By this, I mean the art of
blocking, tackling, running, and all
those things that make up the fundamental basis of modern cowhide
warfare. It is always best to mention the essence of truth in this age
because there was never a football
constructed from pigskin, unless it
was the one used by "Pop" Warner
while coaching the Indians at Carlisle when they successfully pulled
the side line shoe string play by
disguising an Indian in a 'brown
derby and a raincoat Just long
enough to complete a successful
forward pass for a touchdown. It
must be said that anything might
have been used in those days. In
stead I shall dwell on tactical illu-- I
slons such as ball carrying, generalship, strategy, deception, and other
tactics centered around the actual
ball itself. I shall also discuss a
few rules of everyday occurrence as
well as rule changes for the coming
season of 1929. People are more in
terested and eager for the thrills
and high spots, principally those
concerning the offensive team.
Inasmuch as the subject of the
quarterback will be discussed first,
it is necessary for all of us to paint
a mental picture of the field and
upon this lay our plan of Campaign.
In the distinction of goals remem

ber the goal which wc protect is
as our own. The half of
the field next to this goal will be
called our defensive territory. The
other goal will, of course, be called
our opponents' and the half of tho
field nearest that goal will be our
offensive territory. Thus we have
the topography of the battle ground
campaign
our
with
offensive
launched in the direction of our opponents' goal.
Two other divisions which are
subordinate in their condensity and
lntcnsiveness must be mentioned
before we proceed. The twenty yards
of territory nearest our goal will be
called the danger zone while the
last twenty on the extreme far end
of the field will be called the scoring zone. There are no international boundary lines between these
various zones nor are there any definite rules in the rule book that
govern the exact strategical moves
of the quarterback. The responsi- -,
bllity of the entire situation must,
rest upon his shoulders. Activities
in the various parts of the field are
always determined by his team's position, wind direction and its velocity, rain and mud, score, down and
yardage to go, time to play, etc.
In the enumeration of several
strategical rules he must absolutely
know when to punt. Waiting one
play too late to punt has lost more
football games than any other singThis responsibility
le maneuver.
rests absolutely in the quarterback's
is constantly ignored by
hands and
practically every other man on the
team. Johnny Jones, one of the
tackles, will say, when the down
rests third and six in the defensive
territory, "Run that play over me,
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