Like his peers, first-year St. Louis University football coach Eddie Cochems harrumphed at most of the newfangled rules initiated in the wake of the game's crisis in 1905.
"The game this year is one full of trickery," Cochems said in a 1906 edition of a SLU student magazine, the Fleur de Lis. "Instead of finer and substantial (football), we now have a game of chance."
Yet Cochems had a hunch about a few of the changes and embraced one in particular.
"I think that the ... pass will develop many beautiful spectacular plays before the season closes," he said.