PLAY-BY-PLAY RETURNS RECEIVED ON GRID-GRAPH

The Athletic Council recently acquired an electric Grid-Graph Board which was given its first real demonstration before the student body when returns of the Brown game were received and every play of the contest shown by a system of electric lights.

The Board, which is in the shape of a huge football, is 15 feet long and 12 feet high, the actual playing field being of glass, and measuring five by 10 feet. The flashing on of an electric bulb on each play shows who is carrying the ball, while the lighting of another bulb shows the member of the opposing team stopping the play.

The number of the down, the number of yards to go, the type of play attempted, whether a rush, forward pass or kick, a fumble, an intercepted pass, and all the other various phases of the game are shown on the Board by electric bulbs.

The machine weighs nearly a half-ton, and two men are required to operate it, one operating the light behind the glass playing-field which shows the position of the ball, while the other tends the switchboard.

The Grid-Graph Board is a comparatively new development in machines for giving game returns, and is made by the Grid-Graph Board Co. at Columbus, Ohio. There are at the present time nearly 130 of them in use in colleges, newspapers, and clubs in the United States. At the present time Cornell, Colgate, Syracuse, Washington and Jefferson, and many of the members of the Big Ten Conference of the Middle West own Boards.

The University Clubs of Cleveland and Chicago are also owners of Grid-Graph Boards, and ran the play-by-play returns of the Dartmouth-Harvard game on them on October 27, as did the Boston American and the New York Herald on the same day.