he 1910 joint sessions of the Intercollegiate and Conference Committees resulted in radical reform, especially in the area of re-tooling the offense side of the ball. The last two parts of this series discussed how rough injuries plagued strategies of mass momentum. Interlocked blocking was banned. The Committees also recognized that by stripping the offenses of those weapons, which were mainstays of offensive strategy in that era, the defense would gain a definite advantage over the opposition.

They realized that football could not survive without balance between the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. The football minds of 1910 saw the passing game as one tool that could be tweaked to retain the balance needed.