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...developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram's 75-yd. run last week was actually the ultimate refinement of a well-stated and thoroughly rehearsed process which became the pattern of Minnesota football when Coach Bernard William Bierman took it in hand four years...
...Bernie Bierman, voted by 4,000,000 newspaper-readers the ablest exponent of his profession in the U. S. last summer (TIME, Sept. 14), graduated in 1916 from the University of Minnesota, where he won letters in basketball, football, and track. He graduated from high-school and minor-league college football coaching in 1927, when he became head coach at Tulane. At Tulane, as at Minnesota, his teams were noted for efficiency in the second half, effective scoring plays, tight goal-line defense. Recalled to work for his alma mater, Bierman had as assistants George Hauser and Albert Baston. They...
...backbone of football practice at almost every college in the U. S. is practice scrimmage. At Minnesota, scrimmages stop when football starts. Instead of scrimmaging - which Bierman considers boring, dangerous, and useless :for college players old errough to know the game - -Minnesota's first-string players concentrate on kicking, running off plays, working on individual weaknesses, harassing a Bierman-invented dummy. Reversing, the normal order of training any football team was merely Coach Bierman's beginning at Minnesota. Next he revised all Minnesota's individual peculiarities. Concentrating on brains instead of power, he built teams around smart...
...general, Minnesota's football policy under Bierman has been to let opponents wear themselves out in the first half, produce touchdowns in the second. Each touchdown is supposed to come not from one play but a series of plays, in which the last is a carefully arranged climax. The series, which may consist of as many as six plays, is supposed to contain six times as much deceptiveness as can be put into one play. If one series of touchdown plays does not work, a Minnesota quarter back is supposed to have at his mental fingertips half a dozen...
Conspicuously absent from the list of college stars from which Coach Bierman's team was drafted last week was one Chief William Loane West, half-breed Indian from Anniston, Ala., who last fortnight got into the news by registering at the University of California, admitting that he was 46 years old and stating that he would try to make the Varsity football team. True to his boast. Chief West last week trotted out for conditioning practice. He got a mild "Charley horse" when another squad member, carrying the Chief's 216 Ib. hulk down the field...