1937-11-24 — Page 19

CHINA MALL, NOVEMB

1937

RUGBY THEORIES SHOULD BE ADAPTED

TO THE PLAYERS

How Opinions Can Differ On Fundamental Principle Of Attack

(By HOWARD MARSHALL)

London, October 20.-

FOOTBALLER INJURED

Ellis Fimmer And Sheffield

mational

was injured in a car crash last night on the Buxton road, near the Sheffield boundary. His injuries were not serious, but he was de tained in hospital for observation

His companion, John William Selby, 26, of Harrison-road, Shef field, a passenger in the car, wh was involved in a collision with an other car, was slightly hm cars overturned

Both

POLICE MEET MIDDLESEX

TO-DAY

League Football Encounter

TAYLOR RETURNS TO GAME

Provided both Howlett and Parker, who were injured a for night ago, are playing, the Polic should fully extend the Mĩ Regiment in their postponed Fir Division league soccer encounter on the Kowloon Football Club No ground this afternoon at 4 p.m.

Both Parker and Howlett

match perfectly satisfactorily with

"THIS ALSO IS FREE-WILL

No beating about the bush. "ELL me now," said the eminent observer, "why sub-sections. Let two teams master

did the Oxford backs run away from their those straight-forward laws, and very doubtful starters, the former has been in hospital for the past fortnight, while Howlett has been passes?" I was not prepared for the question. I warrant they could carry through a

suffering from an ear injury sus had not, let me admit, the slightest idea what it out the ministrations of a referee.

tained through a collision meant. It was as if a hungry man, weighing in his

The game is too complex now the game with South Chma

Taylor returns to the team, mind the relative merits of a pork pie and a rump adays. We overlay it with anxious

an absence of two months, and will steak, had been asked his considered opinion of thought Mr. HL Menckew, the

be seen on the left-wing, American critic, once wrote a note

Moss, who played in that po Beethoven's Second Symphony.

I WAS THINKING OF OTHER THINGS A TACKLE HERE, in the margin of a text book on in the last game, will be seen on A RUN THERE, A FORWARD RUSH WHICH SET THE PULSES Psychology. "As I stoop to lace my the right-wing, in place of Willes STIRRING, A CHANCE WELL TAKEN, A CHALLENGE STOUT boot," he scribbled, "you hit me LY ANSWERED AN AVERAGE CLUB MATCH, IN SHORT AND BEHIND IT THE GLIMPSE OF AUTUMN TREES A THE GREEN TURE UPON WHICH THE CONFUSED PATTERNS STILL MOVED IN RECOLLECTION.

These memories should have been enough. I doubt whether Rugby football holds much more. It just happens that, as reason- ing animals, we can stretch the game out on an operating table and dissect it

cation

ton

HOWLETTS INCLUSION

over the coccyx with a length of drain-pipe. I conclude instantly that you are an ass. This is a whole process of human thought in little There is no doubt that Howlett's This also is free-will"

inclusion in the Police forward line So it is with Rugby football You has improved it greatly. He has know how it goes the card to tell been the cause of most of the you that you are selected to play openings for the other forw the train journey, with its talk and and had they always taken Certainly the question about tice, but that does not prove that its game of rummy the changing age of them, the Police would running away from passes was they should be universally applied and the smell of sweat and embro-pin a better position to-day.

YES, HOW CAN THEY?

the huddle round your cap be interesting to see how Taylor both interesting and shrewd. thought of Bourne, the Oxford Stoop himself, W. JA. Davies, tain for his final admonitions the combines with him to day. stand-off half, swinging inwards Eddie Myers and Cliff Jones there game itself, a confusion of running Brittain will fill. Parker

pivotal position, will have the task at the last moment, away from are four great stand-off halves, each and tackling and lung-bursting eftion, at left-half, and Gough, in the

the pleasant weariness after- the direction in which he was with his own method of attack. The fort

of watching Pearson and Saw, the the blessed hot bath.

Middlesex "stars forwards. about to pass, attempting to swift audacities of Stoop, the smooth wards

constructive skill of Davies, the sud- That is all there is to it, though The Middlesex have so far only straighten the attack

ADRIAN STOOP'S THEORY den slashing run of Myers, the jink we critics may pry into your lum-lost to the South China te Running away from the player ing brilliance of Jones how can berings as it you had been conduct are fully confident about to receive the ball, that was these variations on a theme be sub- ing one of Napoleon's major cam both points from the Police it A favourite theory of Adrian ordinated to one particular theory?paigns. Did I say all? It is a great Stoop's. The swing inwards by the

To swing away or not to swing deal, a whole process of human ex- stand-off half checks the tendency to is hardly a question which can be perience in little. It is also, despite run across, forces the centres to decided in committee I think the the theorists, free-will.

It with threatens the opposi criticism that Oxford were slowed

tion-

ent through, and possi-down by their attempts to straighten

bly draws at least one defender out the attack was justified, but this of position

may have been due to lack of prac

The argument is plausible, but tice or experience. there are those who disagree with Cambridge, at any rate, will not it violently. By swinging away be weighed down by theories, unless from your supporting player you I am much mistaken. C. D. Laborde force him to check his speed, since last year bequeathed to them. a le be must momentarily lose sight of gacy of sound scrummaging, which the ball and be uncertain of the an-they doubtless cherish. After that gle or direction of your pass. The it will be clean healing, fast passing. split second is thus wasted and the from the scrum, and the instine attack fatally delayed."

tive dash of Bruce Lockhart, Roden and Forrest three exceptionally quick

mid-field players. ADAPTATION OF IDEAS submit, in short, that theories

ONLY WAY

The only way, say these critics, to maintain the essential whip-lash speed of attack while straightening it out is for the player who is to re ceive the pass to run into it, and should be adapted to players, and

thus increase his pace.

not players to theories. Only the

Adrian Stoop would reply, I do other day I was reading a cont

not doubt, the

but the

is sound,porary account of the great

generally faul-forwards who

height and pass 60 years ago.

wil pro GENIUS

The following will represent the

Manning. Bone and Pile, Gough and Brittam; Moss, Mor Johnson, Howlett and Taylor.

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