The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-02
PRESENT SHOWING OF THE
LEAGUE FOOTBALL ELEVENS
clearly explain away all difficulties:
QUARTERBACK RUNNING.


QUARTERBACK RUNNING.
The first change appears in a note
under Rule l, but is really the effect
of the alteration in a rule farther on
In the book, namely, under Rule IL
This rule provides that the quarter
back, within 1.-THE section of the field
between theE two twenty-five ward
lines, may run with the bali. provided
ne goes at least five yards out from
the point where the snapper back nut
the ball in play. This leads naturally
to the alteration in the note under
Rule l, which provides for the markine.
out OF the field. The alteration con-
sists IN the suggestion that it be
marked, in addition to the transverse
Vineyard lines now prevailing, with
longitudinal lines parallel to the side
lines and placed five yards apart in
order that the umpire may easily dis
tinguish whether the quarterback
obeys the latter rule in running with
the ball. Thus the middle section of
the field will he fssnked like a check
er board. go
PROTECTING TIE FULLBACK.
oHuei Nuie io, 50fEeVer, appears the
most important c Mahee and one which
it is hoped will haY4 tie greatest in
f1uence of any in th&Yay of protecting
the back from inIVry. 1t will be re-
membered that waen a fullback kicks
the ball he has been privileged to run
up and put his own men on side by
passing them after he has made the
kick, or might himself by getting up.
secure the ball. In order to prevent
his doing this, the opponents have run
into him, shouldesee him, and in any
other way endea fnTed to prevent lis
getting up the fsH The spectators.
the bulk of the W&at least, believed
that when the ma Ihd made the kick
that his power OF damage to the op-
ponents was over and hence could
not understand why he should be thus
buffeted about, not realizing that if
he managed to get up and put his
men on side or secure the ball him.
SELF it would be equivalent to his hav-
ing carried the ball that distance by
running, in which latter case the pub
lie would have felt that the oppo-
nents were quite right in bringing him
down to the earth.
The change in the rule provides that
he may not himself get the ball or put
his own men on side. This, it is hoped
and expected, will take away all rea-
son for the man being '-oughed," and
the Committee has in the rules i'm
pressed ii very strongly upon the Of
ficia that they SHOULD Geal seyarelv
with anything OF this kind under tae
new rules
CHANGE OF GOALS. ,
Under Rule 10, Section A, an altera-
ton has been made to make it perfect
ly clear that the two teams will not
only change goals after a try at goal
following a touchdown or after a goal
which was kicked from the field, but
also that they shall take opposite
goals at the beginning of the second
half from those assumed when the
match commenced: and. Furthermore.
the side which did not kick off at the
frs half should kick off at second
half.
i Still another change in the same rule
provides that a team which has been
scared upon shall have the privilege
either of kicking off or Of having their
opponents kick off. This is in order to
, prevent a team which is superior in
| the running game being able to keep
the ball in their possession almost in
/ terminably through a contest.
| VEN-ON-THE-LINE RULE.
In Rule is, Section a, the alteration
which will be the most discussed one
throughout the season. appears. The
general demand for seven men on the
line of scrimmage made by several has
been met by legislation providing that
in the middle portion of the field
bounded by the two side lines and
the twoFtwenty- yard lines, at least
seven players of the side in possession
of the ball must be on 1.-THE line OF
scrimmage. 1t Furthermore provides
| however, that he who first receives
the ball may carry, it forward beyond
the line of scrimmage, in Other words