The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-09-25
NOVELTY IN GOAL POSTS
Safer Device For Football In
vented by a College Graduate.
FAVORED BY RULES COMMITTEE.

e. Manley, Ex-Harvnrd Player, In
vents IN Arrangement For Goal
Posts to Prevent Injuries-New De-
Fields This Fall.
Plunging full backs and rushing half
backs will no longer be obliged to suf-
fer with broken heads when they gain
the last yard required for touchdown
directly in front of their opponents
goal posts, for e. Manley, graduate
Of Harvard university, has invented
safety goal post" for football fields,
says the Chicago Record. The inven-
ton possesses all the merits of the old
uprights, but obyiates the head bump
ing features by removing the bases Of
the posts back ten feet from the goal
line.
The invention is simple affair, but
will free football from one of its most
dangerous features. The goal posts
will be set back ten feet from the goal
line instead of being on it as hereto
fore. But at the point where the cross
bar formerly was arms will project
out over the goal line, supporting the
crossbar. BY this arrangement the bar
will be in its proper place, while the
unyielding goal posts will be far
enough away so that the carrier of the
pigskin need not fear for his head when
he hurls himself for a touchdown.
Technically the position of the goal
posts is not in accord with the inter-
collegiate rules, but this is mere mat,
ter of words.
Walter Camp of Yale, Bob Wrenn of
Harvard, Alexander Moffatt of Prince
ton and JOIN c. Bell of Pennsylvania,
all members of the intercollegiate rules
committee, are in favor of adopting
the safety goal post for all college
| games. Paul Dashiel of Princeton has
not yet fully considered the matter, but
| it is thought he will vote with the other
four. The new device will be used on
a number of fields this fall anyway.
Coach Woodruff of Pennsylvania has
! already ordered one Of the new posts
for use on Franklin field for the COM
ing season. He declares that the inven-
ton supplies long felt want and that
as the spirit of the rules@is not violated
| by the removal of the base of the posts
! back ten feet there is no reason why
he should not use them. Henry Gale
| Scfo ont Of Tr,,;. 49,. ~
Chicago eleven last year. says that hs
has little doubt that Chicago will adopt
the new posts. Professor A. A. Stags
has not yet returned from Orange. n
j., and it is not known what he vii
think of the invention
The inventor of the new post ar
rangement has played football an6
wears an H" from playing on the
Harvard baseball nine in 1894. The
4 idea of the new kind of goaa posts was
suggested to him when he saw the bis
crimson sweaters wrapped around the
posts whenever the Harvard varsity
and scrub elevens INDUCED in fierce
play near the goal. Continual injurie:
to players both in games and in prac
tice finally led him to put his idea int
practice. Having had previous expert
ence in mechanics, his idea was sooi
put into practice, with results as pre-
viously stated.
Still another Objectionable feature il
football which will be dispensed will
by the adoption of the new posts ha
been the practice of an opposing clever
when hard pushed near it's own goa
posts to brace against the uprights ant
thus gain undue advantage over tn
eleven trying for touchdown. Thi
very thing is said to have happened il
the Harvard-Yale game last year. Hal
ward was directly in front of Yale
goal and had been sending play
through their center, Jaffray. Yale,
is said. braced against the goal post
and stopped Harvard's rushes only
few inches from the goal line
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