The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-03

ne might nave earned a place OIL tue hh-
Eastern, Dillon Of the Indians. +. Dillon of
Princeton. Scarlet OF Pennsylvania, Osborne
OF Harvard. Veeder Of Yale, Dague and North
McAvoy of Lafayette and Dennie of Brown,
were all men who played noticeably good
football, besides others too numerous to mem
ton.
The task of ranking the teams is a COM
pliCated affair; one on which no two persons
will agree. Things to be considered are
form at the end OF the season, form through
out the season and comparative scores. What
SSa a.a t the 4 ! team sssm w Iesl,p beat .he The \ Set team Hn the
matter becomes involved indeed. Among
the first sixteen teams ten may be ranked as
follows:
! Princeton.
3 Harvard.
8. Carlisle.
8. Pennsylvania.
Brow:
y, Annapolis.
0. West Point,
10. Pennsylvania State.
Then there are swarthmore, Lafayette.
Syracuse, Dartmouth. Williams and Colgate.
which all figure in the first sixteen.
as a result OF the experience meeting of sew
eral members of the rules committee in Phila-
dseiphia on Friday night shd n pri ! Ss s,C t E. the
on the plays in the Army.Navy game and
found that in the first half there, we're jus.
Q minutes and ~ seconds Of actual play, ana
in the second half q minutes and 40 seconds,
~ minutes and % seconds IN all. BY aCtuaI
plaV is meant the time the ball was awe.
II means the time consumed from the mo
ment the leather was snapped back TO the
moment it was dead; 10 was the time con-
and rushing. The rest of the sixty minutes
this aside from time taken out Tor delays
TO their positions for each succeeding scrim-
ma ge, and giving signals.
The state of affairs brought TO light is no
reflection on the game. The contest was
snappy, brisk and with little time wasted.
The condition simply Is a feature Thlch a
stop watch on the amount OF actual battle
with the ball in play has brought out. The
committee wanted to get data on the, p0lnt,
and it is a strong argument Tor longer halves,
seconds, and that was the way they ran,
When 1 was coaching at Lafayette a few
DR.. Newton. Il used to tell my men that all
they had TO do was TO play their hardest LOT
ten minutes in each half and the rest OF ths
time they would be resting. but they laughed
"A number of officials met with the rules
that the forward pass should be made "A safer
play. Instead of loss on the ball Nhen u
hits the ground on a forward pass a dlstanSs
Ave yard requirement from the centre also
was recommended. The committee senslhlyS
was opposed TO Increasing the number OF
downs for gaining ten yards. and the sense
Of the meeting was that there was lttlelo
do except polish M the rules as they now
stand The abolition of the rule prohibiting
t~ackling below the knees was suggested.
Allowing two forward passes IN one sCrlnlS
ma kt IL llt llt0l ubtS NV PoP' w f'N
scrfmmagr was favored; also doing away
with a second umpire and taking out oil time
lot distance pei GnInsn wniId have had a
better chance OF defeating Pennsylvania
Another change favored was increasing the
pla wing time to seventy minutes. somebody
suggested that in order to cOunteract the in;
nuence OF wind the teams svap goals at stated
ent werc Walter Camp. l.. NJ. Dennis. John
&. Bell, Paul Dashiell. Prof. Babbltt. j.,
Pine and W.T.. Reid. also about twenty-five
The following captains for next season
have been elected so far Lafayette, McAIoy,
ITiPtyN DoDDneiiy. fulIback; Fndover, Merritt,
quarterback; Exeter, White, tackle: Wesleyan,
The Princeton, election probably viii be held
this week, and it is thought Mccormick, the
fullbaGk, viii be chosen D0uGIaIs rs regarded
The ing letter speaks for itself;
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: Noticing the
hubbub that has been raised over Hale's 30 yard
forward pass of a. Yards made in a game yesterday
between Marietta and Ohio University. Marietta
end tGilman) runs out ten yards. then drops back
I'VE to seven yards. Ball was thrown TO him from
quarter, and lac hurled II to the half, who caught
II on the 10 yard line. running remaining distance
for a touchdown.
OF Wooster. Rike OF Ohio Wesleyan and Dunlap
OF Michigan. Besides claiming he longest forward
pass OF the season ! also claim the highest score,
Marietta. 0; ohio NEEDLES, a Marietta. q; Buck
Rn .I1c o n Mnr HS n n; M, Va = M Msri e ., 9:
KentucEy State. O. Marietta. 9: Miami 0. Marietta
10 SciO. o. Marietta, 81: University OF Clnnclnatl, 0.
University, D. Marietta, "a, Alumni. 0. Total
Marietta, 1855. opponents. 10.
Marietta lost but one game. and that was the
nrst game OF the season, Vanderbilt defeated
Kentucky State IS TO o, in full halves, while our
score was ~ TO o. In Is and 10 minute halves. Ne
braska yesterday defeated Cincinnati Al to O. and
we defeated them 81 TO o. and USED sx SUBS. ! ours
sincerely, \. T. NAN SuRDAM; ~
Coach Marietta College Football Team.
MARIETTA. Ohio, Nov. 30.
Two opinions of the Army-Navy game are
as follows:
Walter Camp-The Army. confident In their own
| ability. depended on the old game 10 bang away
through n season OF hard games and then by sheer
force. pluck and concentration 10 batter the Navy
line TO pieces with a steady succession Of short
piece gains. This years schedslc was harder than
ever, and as a result the team went on the field
at Philadelphia after four successive defeats by
spirit In the world Is apt TO flag under such punish
mcnt. II does q team no good TO subject them TO
such a schedule that defeat becomes a habit. West
Point had little life after the first twenty minutes,
They beat back the Navy line when they rushed at
II, but ten yards TO gain Is very different fromllve.
and no. team can defeat at that game unless they
the wing. Cornell found this out, but u cost them
the game. West Point discovered II, but too late.
ofIife outof them. had made them slower OF thought
and act than they were a month before, while
| the Nays schedule had buoyed up their spirits.
conserved considerable energy and left them fast
II. II. LeWls-This game as well as all Of the great
matches OF the year proved conclusively that Walter
he predicted that the ten yard rule would do away
with mass playing. 10 simply does not pay. This
rule alone has reduced Injuries so per cent. The
brains and mental aud physical ~alcrtness. Vpon
the whole. the rules m made a good job for
a nrst attempt az rule reform.