The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-31
FEW CHANGES IN RULES
Walter Camp Says No Radical Alter
atoms Are Likely Sectional
Contests practicable.

rules committee, is In Chicago ON visit,
and before he returns to the east will
confer with the principal western football
authorities with regard to the advisability
of changes In the rules. Mr.. Camp does
not think any radical changes will be made
lin the regulations governing the game
He said Yesterday:
! 1T Is always hard to say in advance
what would be the best think to do in
football. Personally, Il think it is mad
yisable to make too many changes in a
game SO well established as football, as it
would take the people who go to the games
a long time to get used to the new
order of things. Football has been brought
to a high standard In both the west and
the east, and a good many might question
the advisability Of changing any of the
rules.
Some critics would like to see a more
open style OF play in football. The rea-1
sons given in the majority of cases are
that the game would be less dangerous.
I question this point to some extent, as a
goodly number of the injuries are sus-
tanned by players when in the open. From
a coach's standpoint I think he mostly
fears the sharp tacklins to a fast man like
Weeks and Sheldon. Let one of these
players take the ball on a punt and run
1t back. The chances of injuries in a case
like that are more apt to happen than
when the player goes head first into a
mass play" -
Mr.. Camp commented favorably on the.
stride football has taken in the west, and
hoped that some day sectional games
might be played, but he did not expect
any Of importance for some time. He
said that the length Of the season, both
in the east and in the west, precluded
such contests. H. =: .ass. ..s.s-.5
According to Mr.. Camp Yale and Har-
ward are certain to come to terms, and he
does not believe that the two schools will
break of athletic relations.
Captain P. e. Pierce, United States
army, chairman Of the football committee
Of West Point military academy, discuss
ing the report sent out from Washington
that the war department was conteSnplat-
Ing stopping the annual game between
the army and navy, said: 0.a. ~
ut is untrue The war department has
no. intention of stopping football or I
would have been notified. have just
come from Harvard, and we have ar
ranged with her for our game. I have
been called east to finish preparations with
Annapolis for our annual meeting. Not
only. will you find West Point and An
napolis mixing it up as usual next fall,
but you will find football squad In every
army post in the country. It is the
soldiers game, a game for soldiers, and
the soldiers will stick to it. 90 -
Football needs. one thing more to make
a perfect college game. That is an annual
meeting between the east and west.
Michigan and Yale are disputing each
others right to- the title of college cham
pions. They should have had a. chance
to fight it out. What game it would
have made. Wisconsin broke up the fast
play of Michigan and held her down.
What would Yale have done? 7 do not
care to answer this question myself but I
will say that do not think Michigan ever
met a team Of the caliber of Yale, Har-
ward, Princeton or West Point. When
it comes to the fast ones don't overlook
West Point. Remember we held Yale to
a tie score; next year hope to have my
boys beat Old Eli n. "a. @e,,,l IA