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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1959)
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SI . , BETWEEN For 40 years a durable myth has de picted football's half-time intermis sion as something like an inspirational recess. According to the myth, games are often won or lost between halves because of some coach's revival-meeting oratory in the dressing room. Ever since Knute Rockne implored his Notre Dame team to "win this one for the Gipper," millions of fans all over America have considered melodramatic pep talks a vital part of the game. All this is very pretty except for one thing: it just isn't so. Despite the popu lar impression, half-time pep talks are as outmoded as the turtle-neck jersey and the flying wedge. I don't know any coaches who make a point of waving the flag between halves," says coach Bud Wilkinson of the Oklahoma Sooners. ''Why would they? There are too many important things to discuss in the time available." In an era of swift-striking T-formation football, with endless variations of as many as 200 basic plays, the 15-minute intermission is devoted not to sentiment but to science. The modern coach is busy chalking diagrams on the blackboard, telling an end to try stop-and-go fakes on a rival defender, improvising correc tions to check the enemy running game. What makes the bogus legend of the between-halves pep talk wonderfully ironic is the blunt fact that football games actually are won at half time these days the unemotional scientific way. At major colleges, the between-halves organization really begins at least two minutes before the end of the second quarter. At that point in the Southern Methodist-Missouri game last season, for example, a troop of SMU managers and team attendants converged on the dressing room under Missouri's Me morial Stadium. A very old ritual was Family Weekly. Noeember . IKS beginning there all over again. Quickly, the attendants quartered fresh oranges, unboxed cleats, soaked towels and wrung them out. Fresh-jerseys lay on wooden benches in front of lockers. In the cubbyhole of a first-aid station, the SMU trainer ripped long strips of adhesive tape. From seats in the press box came two assistant coaches. They started chalking X's and O's on two large blackboards in the dressing room. These symbols illus-. trated the basic offensive and defensive' patterns Southern Methodist and Mis souri had used in the first half. Moments later, the SMU players clat tered down a concrete runway and into the dressing room. The scoreboard showed Missouri leading, 19-0. Their hard, muscular bodies sprawled on the floor or on benches, the players sucked oranges, loosened shoulder pads, swabbed sweaty faces. Assistants moved among the athletes, tightening cleats. Over at the trainer's booth, emergency repairs of another sort commenced. The trainer and his aides retaped ankles, wound bandages around knees, painted medicines into wounds and gashes. As the SMU Mustangs relaxed, coach Bill Meek stepped to the blackboards. In a flat, even voice he pointed out de fensive leaks where Missouri had gained most of its yardage. Among other errors, the Southern Methodist linebackers hadn't reinforced the tackles properly. In much the same way, the offensive intelligence summary unfolded. From what the assistant coaches reported, Meek knew the bristling Missouri de fensives could be breached two ways. With a change in the blocking assign ments. Southern Methodist backs could run wide plays at a profit Besides, SMU could open up its passing game by dou bling up on a rival halfback. While players lumped down their -shoulder pads, tightened shoe laces and , uniforms, Meek permitted himself only one Hollywood-like suggestion. "All right, let's go get them," he said in a rising voice. Out on the field, the Southern Meth odist varsity followed that half-time script with a brutal dedication. Strong legged halfbacks swept around the Mis souri ends, rolling, twisting, focusing on the end zone, while quarterback Billy ,Dunn arched killer passes into the soft spot Meek had diagrammed. In 30 in-' credible minutes they scored five touch downs. Final score: Southern Methodist 32, Missouri 19. A staggering second-half comeback isn't typical, of course, but it isn't unique, either. In a Sugar Bowl game against Maryland, Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson prescribed a hurry-up offense as the best cure for a seven-point deficit It succeeded to the tune of a 20-7 victory. Even Iowa's big, bruising Rose Bowl champions exploit the magical 15 min utes between halves. At half time in a crucial game with Northwestern last year, coach Forest Evashevski told his team to ambush the rival's play-wrecking floating ends by running inside them. Result: Iowa 26, Northwestern 20. "Nccasionally, the half-time period VJ is the most significant 15 minutes of the afternoon," says coach Pete Elliott of the California Bears. "Between halves we try to give the players the informa tion that can win games instead of sen timental pep talks." TTntil V11ir.tf kurlrllorl urith hlS trOOpS at half time in the Oregon game last s-a" son, it might easily have gone either way. Defensive adjustments designed to contain a new souped-up Oregon offense worked as well as Cal's wide-running
