The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-15
They Remove the Brutality From
the Game.
ALMOST REVOLUTLoNIZED.
THE NOTIFICATIONS ARE NOTHING
SHORT OF RADICAL.
The Expert Committee From. the
Several Colleges Has Done Its
Work Well-No Change in the
Scoring Systematic Momentum
Mass Plays Allowed.

| After ABOUT six months OF consultation,
marked and mitigated by numerous din
ners and subcommittee tete-a-tetes, the
committee of football experts who have
been revising the playing rules have COM
pleted their labors says the New York
/ World. Their last confab and feast was
held yesterday afternoon and evening at
the Athletic club, corner of Sixth avenue
and TWenty-sixth street. Parting was 4
such sweet sorrow that the meeting was
prolonged from early afternoon to almost {
midnight.
All the members of the committee save
DR.. P. J. Dashiell, of Lehigh, who could .
not get away from the Naval Academy at |
Annapolis, were present. Mr.. Camp came
down from New Haven; DR.. W. a.
Brooks, Harvards representative; Law
yer John c. Bell. who always looks out |
for the University of Pennsylvania in !
terest, and Alexander Moffat, Princeton's
football mentor, sat down with President
! George A. Adee, of the Athletic club
AS the committeeman have kept in close !
| touch with their respective colleges Whlle !
making the changes in the playing rules, |
| there is no doubt that the new rules
will be- adopted by. Yale and Princeton
representing all that remains OF the |
American Intercollegiate Football asso-
citation, and by Harvard and the Un1Ver-
sity of PENNSYLVANIA, and all the Dig ana
little matches next fall will be played
under the new regulations Thus the
session last night when the full text !
| of the rules was made public, IS by Iar
the most important step that has been
| taken in football circles in many years.
1t means almost a revolution in the play
ing of the great college game. Until some
| preliminary matches have been decided,
| it will be futile to predict how beneficial
the changes and notifications will be.
| In its report the committee states that:
1--WE have proceeded in our work with
a view to the more thorough enforcement
and unders landing of the rules, as well
as to the checking of tendencies threat
ening to make the game more dangerous
and less interesting"
After each successive session of the
committe the World has printed full re,
ports Of the innovations proposed and
adopted. Many of them were minor
changes, verbal substitutions and omls-
sions, but not few were radical.
In carrying out the idea OF making the
game an open one, the consonance with
the popular demand for less mass plays,
a long step was suggested IN proposing
to so change the system of scoring thaC
kicking would be more prevalent, out
this has been abandoned and the old sys-
tenn of scoring points will be retained
Among the most important changes
Rule 8.IThe introduction of a. signal by
the man intending to make fair eaten.
"A fair catch is a catch made direct
from the kick by one of the opponents
(or punt out by one of the same side),
providing the man intending to MAKE fsi the
catch indicates that intention by holding
up his hand when running for the ball:
and also makes a mark with his heel
side touches the ball. If he be interfered
with by an opponent who is offside, Or
if he be thrown after catching pail
he shall be given fifteen yards, unless
this carries the ball across the goal line:
In that case he shall be given but han
the intervening distance. After naV1 ing
raised his hand, he cannot run with tne
ball but must take his fair eaten IL ne
succeed in making one. z,
Rule 14-The addition Of q new ofnclal'
"the linesman." The rule to read:
"There shall be an umpire, referee
, and a Iinesman.
Rule 15.-Still further regarding the
, linesman's duties, this rule to read;
(a) The umpire is the judge OF the con
!. duct of the players, and his decision is
final regarding fouls and unfair ta cues
The umpire may appeal to both the ines
man, and referee for testimony regarding
. cases of unnecessary roughness, onSlde
) play or holding, but they shall not volun-
teer their opinion nor can Iney De DIP
pealed to upon these points by the cap
''l d. The referee is judge Of the position
and progress of the ball. The linesm ian
shall use a stop-watch in timing the
s' Id5 The umpire shall permit no coach
, ing either by substitutes, coaches VI Oily
one inside the ropes.
le) The line1nan shall, under the advice
of the referee. mark the distance galn4g9a a
or lost in the progress oil the play. lie
~ OnIv one oficial representative for
each side shall come. upon the ned OF
I1lay in case of an accident to a player
This last clause will eliminate the use
less rabble of attendants. substitutes;
heelers, rubbers, ETC. that nitnsrIo rGsa1eu
ton, and together with the following RUE
is regarded by many as the most salutary
Rule 1.-THE alteration in playing time e;
the rule to read ''thirty-dve'' instead OF
forty-fve minutes each halt:
kick shall be made where rules call for
: it The rule. therefore. to READ: Inc
captains shall toss up before the com
t mencement of the match and the winner inner
of the toss shall have the choice, OF goal
or of Kickoff. The same SIDE snail not
kickoff in two successive halves. III al
cases where the rule provides for a KICK,
the ball must be actually kicked the dis
, tance of at least ten yards into the op-
posite territory, unless stopped by the OPP
: Ruie 2O.-To provide against kicking into
: touch or kickoff. The rule to read: II
the ball go into touch before It Is t4u6n ed
hna f toaeS on s eeoF f te Shall go as
: Rule a, second C.-To prevent fouling
the ball inside the. opponents ten-yard
line. Rule to read: 60 II a player, Wnen
nents' ten-yard line, the ball shall go as
a touch-back to the opponents.
Other important changes in the line OF
reform provides for less use of the
K hands and arms obstructively; limit all de-
laws to three minutes; increase penalties
for fouls from five to ten yards; provide
: for a penalty of fifteen yards for Interior
2 ing with a fair catch, when the catcher
. shall have indicated his intention to catch
), and not run with the ball after catching;
f the insertion of clause providing against
: niIing I'D on a man when he is down and
The addition of section legislating
S against momentum mass playing.
: This last rule, which will attract more
= attention from anxious parents, friends
e and companions, reads as follows:
e Rule 80 (c.)-No momentum mass plays
shall be allowed CA momentum mass
: play is one where more than three men
n start before the ball is put in Ilay) Nor
shall more than three men group for that
!, purpose more than five yards back from
II the point where the ball is put in play.
(, Hereafter a man kicking a ball out will
/ be allowed only one chance instead OF TWO,
II and rule 35 has been changed so as to
read that whenever a side has tried a
drop-kick at the goal upon the first down
:. inside of twenty-fve-yard line, and the
II result has been a touch-back, the line of
n kick-out shall be the ten-yard instead of
: the twenty-hye-yard line in determining
C the position of the opponents and the
! kickers' side must be behind the ball when
y it is kicked.
. President Adee, of the Athletic club,
I Messrs. Moffat, Brooks and Bell expressed
l. efforts had been harmonious throughout
v the series of conferences. 1t is their hope
and expectation that the work they have
done will meet the appreciation of the
players of the game generally, and that
the public will understand that the friends
of football have undertaken to correct the
i abuses that have crept in, and to SO
q modify it that the popular outcry against
it last fall will find no echo this year.
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