t has been said for a long time that "innovation is the mother of invention." That may be true in a most cases, but the innovation in 1893 had some by-products that were probably not all that desirable to football players. Part XV let you in on the strategies developed by men like Lorin F. DeLand of Harvard and George W. Woodruff of Yale. Their imagination had a lot to do with finding advantages by taking a mass of men and trying to steamroll a certain point in an opposition’s defense.

The game formations and strategies were leading to situations that the human body could not physically tolerate. Writer Parke H. Davis in his 1911 book Football-The American Intercollegiate Game illustrated the point very explicitly when he wrote: "The generals had devised plays too powerful for their sturdy soldiers to execute and withstand."

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