European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 28, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 23 Momenta re rams Wake up the echoes of 1913 the Forward pass was legalized in footballing 1906. Knole Rockne did t invent it. He just helped popularized it. It was Seldom used even As a desperation  was like taking the rent Money id a poker game. When Noire Dame went to West Point to play army in november of 1913, the Irish not Only stunned the Brave old army team they stunned he known football world Wilh their use of the pass. They took one look at the massive Long Gray Lin and decided a frontal assault would be futile. Quad Tei tack Gat Dorais matted a huddle and announced Well go Over and around  the generals should have been paying attention. Twas probably history s first recorded instance of the Blitzkrieg principle. Army s infantry was routed 35 13. Dorais. Throwing mostly to Rockne completed an unheard of 14 of 17 passes for 243 Yards. The really puzzling thing is that every football coach a the land did t leap on the innovation. The pass went right Back into Mothballs for All intents and purposes. The pros were quicker to catch on they did t have the emotional tug at he Heartstrings that dear old Alma mater would bring out in the College crowds. They hid to be entertaining. In those Days even the College football establish ment legislated against the pass. You had to be five Yards behind the line of scrimmage to throw. Two incomplete passes in a Row resulted in a Penally. An incomplete pass in the end zone and the Ball went Over to the defending team on the 20-Yard line. They did t want games won by any la dec a junk tosses Over the go Afline any Hail Mary soap bubbles from the 40-Yard  collegiate game Well Back to ground. The stars were galloping ghosts. Four horsemen dream Backi ields nicknames that glorified the Overland  pros particularly George Preston Marshall wanted none of this. They look the game out of the trenches and put it on the High wire. You could Pas the Ball anywhere at any time and to almost any body. You could fill the end zone with incomplete passes with  pros did t Waul a game like two woolly mammoths in a tar pit. They wanted Swan Lake with Shouer pads. They get it. Some of the Hud liners Wei Coful. Volleyball they sneered. But it is exciting. It changed the game from a mud figh a Ballet the Public loved in. The run became archaic. It was used for show Only. Pro coaches talked grandly of establishing the run but Whai they meant was that they used it onlys a feint before delivering the real knockout blow the bomb the Long touchdown pass a few collegiate coaches resisted. They talked darkly of the Forward pus As i tool of the Devil. He who lives by the pass Dies by the pass was one of their favorite warnings. They re minded you when you put the Ball in the air three things can happen and two of them Are bad they Clung stubbornly to the notion that defens and a Strong running attack won football games even when essential ground game formations like the single Wing and the Noire Dame Box gave Way to a passing stratagem the to formation. Then the pendulum swung Clear the other  galloping ghost nicknames gave Way to slinging Sams and the Springfield rifles and the mad bomb ers. The four horsemen ii was widely realized would be two wide receivers a flanker and a passe if they played today. Runners decreased in importance. When Superior runners like Eari Campbell and . Simpson and Archie Griffin  get you to the super bowl you could t get there on fool. It became known As the get Bob Griese a highly efficient undervalue quarterback from a non passing school never mind hts halfback school of recruiting. And then John Robinson and Eric Dickerson came into the league. John Robinson came off the Campus of us where they establish the passing game As a Decoy so they can go into real bread and butter pan of the game the Slud enl body right give Lac Ball to the tailback  joined i team the rams thai had t had a quarterback since the late dutch Vanbrockin. They had almost everything else. Around a race track when a horse who a once great has to beat a younger Field on remembered skills they say be won on class a inc. That s the Way the rams  they got Dickerson. Dickerson and Robin son have taken the game if not Back to Walter Campor 1913, at least Back to galloping goal and four horsemen. They win games on the run. The Pas has become of All pervasive that three nun lines arc the role in the nil today. Line Backun Peel Back at the soap of the Ball defences Are called Nickel because five backs Retreat when the Ball u put in play or dime became embody on defense  Grange might never have been tackled if they had done that in in Day. It looked like an invitation to 1913 to Coad  won a football game a Sun Day ago that they almost did t have to blow up in football for. Dak non ran 40 Yards for one touch Down ran 36 Yards for another touchdown that was called Back and 42 Yards for the game winning touchdown. In Between he gained 125 other Yards you have to think Hal if Rockne and Dorais came upon an nil defense today they would hold a meet ing and say let s Spring a Surprise on them. Let s run the  May have to change the rules again. Touchdowns wont count unless the scorer catches the Ball live or More Yards ahead of the passer. Two tunning plays in a Row will result in a 10-Yard penalty. Running plays will not be permitted inside oppo nets 20-Yard line or in overtime and in shall be illegal to mount a running play anywhere on the Field without first notifying the defense so it can be re we be worked too Long and hard to bring if for Ward pass to its present preeminence and designed Loo Many sophisticated defences to to Wilh Illo see two upstarts like Robinson and Dickerson revolutionize in. Who do they think they Art Rockne and Dorais 49er secondary Burns pack Milwaukee a it was experience versus inexperience and san Francisco safely Ronnie lol got the Best of Green Bay quarterback Randy Wright Lott the nil s pass interception Leader picked of two of Wright s three interceptions in the 49ers 31-17 Victory sunday. The first steal set up a third Quarter touchdown and Lott resumed the second 55 Yards for a fourth Fluor tar score that put the 49ers ahead to stay. Comeback tory Nixon also took advantage of right who is in his third pro year but his first As a starter. Nixon returned an interception 88 Yards for a touchdown to end the packers final drive. Sao Francisco improved to 5-2-1 while Green Bay fell to 1-7. Wright hit on 30 of 54 passes for 328 Yards and one to. Lott stepped in front of Green Bay wide receiver Phillip Epps and raced Down the sideline to give sanfmncucoa2l-141eadwilh 14 07 remaining. Ray wenching added a 27-Yard Field goal with 5 13 left and Nuon got the final to with 33 seconds remaining. Lott s two interceptions gave him eight this season tops in the league. Mike Moroski subbing for the injured jct temp at quarterback completed 17 of 29 passes for 147 Yards one touchdown and one interception. He also ran fora san Francisco touchdown. The packers held a 14-7 Hall inc Lead but the 49ers tied in Early in the third period after Lou s first interception. Lott a safely resumed in is Yards to the Green Bay 27. Four plays later. Moroski rolled out to pass then ran 9 Yards into the end zone when his receiver were covered. After Lou s score the packers drove from their own 27 to the san Francisco 4-Yard line but had to Settle Tor a 21-Yard Field goal by Dei Greco that narrowed the margin to 21 -17 Wilh eight minutes remaining. The packers had to begin the game at their 9-Yard line because of a Penally on the opening Rickolt the drove 91 Yards for the touchdown largely on the run Ning of Paul on Carruth. Carruth soared from the i on a fourth Down play with 6 45 left. Green Bay took a 14-0 Lead Early in the second Quarter when Wright tossed a 3-Yard pass to tight end Mark Lewis who caught the Ball in the end zone after it was tipped by linebacker Todd Shell. Bears from Pagol z1 weekday Sailor into the game with a 77-Yard touchdown drive directed by hippie on their first Possession in the second half but were unable to get Over the  completed four passes for Yards i uie drive including a 46-Yard Paw to Jeff Chadwick the longest of the season by the lion. Scott Williams scored from the 1-Yard  Lions did t threaten again against the Bear defense. The Bear offence managed Only three Points on Sutler s 29-Yard Field goal Wilh 10 seconds remain ing in the half and did not make a first Down until just just Over two minutes into the second Quarter when Mcmahon ran for ii Yards on. A broken put play. Chicago managed to drive to the Detroit 30-Yardline before Demetrious Johnson intercepted a Mcm Hon Pas. The lion made one first Down but were forced to punt before the bean drove from their own 45 to us Detroit 19 to set up Butler s first Field goal