00:22 How to play football. Football needs special equipment. A college covered with ivy, a coliseum, or stadium.
00:29 Filled to overflowing with a hundred thousand rabid, wildly cheering fans.
00:34 Great armies of vendors, managers, mascots, photographers, sports writers, doctors, elaborate brass bands, assorted coaches, old grads, scores of Annie Oakleys.
00:45 And two teams resplendent in brilliant uniforms create a riot of color and atmosphere unequaled by any other game on earth.
00:52 Now the object of the game is to pass the ball over the goal line of the opposing team by hook or crook.
00:59 Eleven men on either team, two ends, and that's how the game is played.
01:05 Now the teams line up for the kickoff. The referee blows his whistle, and the game is on.
01:10 It's a long, high, end-over-end kick over the end zone into the arms of a swivel-hipped smith, that great all-American star, triple-frets cat-back.
01:17 Look at him go, they can't touch him. He can really carry the male, that boy. Look at that open field runner, look at that straight arm.
01:22 He's away and he's over for a touchdown.
01:25 Well, it isn't often you see this happen, 105 yards to a touchdown on the opening kickoff.
01:31 Now here's the drive for the extra point, and the kick is good, and the score is 7-0.
01:38 Here comes swivel-hipped smith out of the game. Listen to that cheer.
01:43 The coach is saving smith, he's not taking any chances with his star player.
01:48 Back to the game, taxidermy tech kicks off to anthropology A&M.
01:52 But the ball is fumbled, yes, and now it's taxidermy tech's ball.
01:55 They go into a huddle. The quarterback, or field general, looks over the defense and decides which number to call.
02:01 They come quickly out of the huddle, the line shifts into position, the quarterback barks his signals.
02:09 The backfield shifts, the ball is snapped, the quarterback makes it to the halfback, gives it to fullback,
02:14 the front piledriver is set up for a gain of 8 yards.
02:19 And that quarterback's a smart boy.
02:23 All right, all right, signals, 18, 29, 47, 63, 54, 99.
02:30 The team's working like a well-oiled machine.
02:35 Double wing back to the right from an unbalanced line, a man in motion, the halfback's got it off back,
02:40 and he's smeared for a 9-yard loss. What a dumb quarterback.
02:44 To the spectator, football may appear rather rough at times, but in reality, it's a character-building game.
02:51 All right, taxidermy's ball, third down and 11 to go.
02:54 DeGrotte has the ball, he gives it to Gershman. No, Sibley's got it. There it goes to right.
02:58 No, no, it's a fake, a hidden ball, crisscross, cross, buck, end around, double lateral, razzle dazzle,
03:03 spinner, split buck, and he's in the clear.
03:10 Uh-oh, there's a penalty on the play. It's against taxidermy tech.
