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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
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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