Word: heisman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Heisman from Georgia Tech, who has replaced him, has begun his work unostentatiously and with a squad that is anything but remarkable. He has not yet resorted to the tricky shifts that were accountable for his "Golden Tornado" teams down South. He saw his team defeat Swarthmore (a team that had scored on Princeton) by clean-cut, direct, "straight" football...
...present, the Penn team is halting and unworkmanlike in the operation of the "Heisman shift"; but it is expected the present week's practice will make a difference tomorrow against Lafayette. Since Heisman has been long recognized as the foremost exponent of the modern game, it is not surprising to read that forward passes played a major part in the Penn attack on Swarthmore...
...unfamiliar collection of names that he has on his regular line-up. There is no outstanding star end, like Miller, or backs such as Light, or Quigley, of last year's team, no all-around star like Berry, no speedster like Mercer and Minds, stars of recent years. If Heisman can build his attack around Strauss or Whitehill this year, and beat Dobie's Cornellians on Franklin Field late in November, he will be hailed as a wonder-worker by Penn alumni. Strauss will be remembered hereabouts as the man who ran wild against Dartmouth and virtually settled the outcome...
...Heisman loses this year, as seems improbable now, he will at least have instituted a reliable "system" at Penn, and started a team made up of students, men who make football a secondary interest to college work--decidedly the opposite of last year's aggregation...
...even if the out-come has little to do with championship titles, which seems likely, for, pitted against each other for the first time will be two very different coaching systems, each typical of the football played in its section of the country--Doble's from the Pacific Northwest; Heisman's from the South. Heisman will sorely miss at Penn the services of Strupper and Gill, who formed the center of his "Tornado" at Georgia