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THE DEFENCE
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off is the following: Place the tackles,
centre, and guards on the forty-five-yard
line or ten yards from centre. Their duty
is to block the speediest forwards on the
other side; they can at least delay them
by forcing them to go outside of them.
The reason for placing them on that line
is that the nearer you are to a man the
better you can block him. The field is
broken quicker, and gives the backs a
fair chance for either a return run or
kick.
The ends are placed on the thirty-yard
line. They are to look out for kicks be¬
tween them and the first line. The quar¬
ter stands mid-field on the twenty-yard
line to cover boundary between ends and
backs.
The halves stand on the ten-yard line
and the full-back on the five-yard line to
cover remainder of territory. The scheme,
in a word, is that the six fastest men cover
the territory, while the rest of the men