Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-27
LATE SPORTING NEWS
ROUGHNEss of FOOT BALL.

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1t fl Believed That More Legislation
IL Necessafy.
Such a cry was raiyed last year against
the roughness of foot bah, says the New
York World. that at the request of Yale,
Princeton. Harvard aid Pennsylvania, the
University Athletic Club appointed Alexan-
der Moffat, a celebrated Princeton player;
DR.. Brooks of Harvard. rbohn @. Bell of
the University Of Pennsylvania, Paul Dash
lei Of Lehigh and WaterI Camp Of Yale a
committee to revise the old rules and give
to the colleges set Of new rules The OBJ
ject was to produce a game free from un-
necessary roughness end brutality. 1t was
charged that the flying Interference. the
momentum mass plays and the wedge plays
were the cause of so many injuries to the
players. The remedy proposed was to abol-
ish these plays and substitute others Of q
more open nature. ....-. -. .-.
The new rules in opening up the game
have brought about what some shrewd
critics predicted months ago, namely,
greater number Of injuries to the play
ers. The most dangerous time to tackle
man is when both the tackler and the
man to he tackled are running at full speed
in opposite or nearly opposite directions.
This is exactly what has to be done in all
open plays. That was how Hinkey was
hurt SO badly last year. 1t Is how Wright
ington was injured on Saturday. A score
of other players have been hurt this sea-
son in tho same way. The new rules in
crease the open plays and, of course the
number of injuries have increased In the
same proportion. The mass or wedges
were nothing like SO violent or so danger
Gus as these plays.
George Adee, the president of the Uni
versity Athletic Club, one of Yales most
trusted athletic advisers. said yesterday:
I'll H. nI> C-x,, 49, -
game the better. But If those who attend
foot ball games cannot go without suffer
ing from what they see on the field 1t Is
time something was done. / do not at
tribute the roughness Of Saturdays game
to the present rules. They were framed
to do away with brutal play, but they have
not done that. The spirit Of the rules has
been violated. More legislation will be re-
qufred this winter. do not believe the
Yale faculty will stop next Saturdays game
with Princeton" .
Mr.. Adee was one CT those who strongly
favored the new rules, and his admission
that they have failed to eradicate the OBJ
jectionable features in foot ball Is impor-
tant.
Foot Ball stopped by the Police.
The police stopped the foot bail game
between the teams Of the Englewood and
Hyde Park High Schools at Chicago yes
terday afternoon. The game was In favor
of Englewood. 10 to 8, and the youngsters
We're smuggling SO viciously that the police
put an end to the game.
ROughness I'm Foot Ball. -
A number Of members Of Yale faculty
have expressed disgust at the Yale-Har
ward foot ball game Of Saturday, owing to
tho smuggling and general roughness in
dulged in by the players, and a rurnor has
been current that the faculty would forbid
the Yale-Princeton contest of next Sat-
urday. President Dwight says he knows
of no intention to prevent the playing of
the game '.'s - ''''
The men of the college pronounce the
ure, but those who know the rules declare
that the rules are all right. but that they
We're not properly enforced by the officers
of the field. o.