The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-13
FOOTBALL COMMITTEES
 MEET AND AMALCAMATE
QUICKLY REACH DECISION AT CONFERENCE IN NEW
 YORK.

Attended by Sixty-eight Representa-
 tives of Colleges and Universities
 Action Taken to Mean Much Toward
 Establishing Intercollegiate Football
 on n Higher Plane---Walter Camp
 Agreed Upon to Edit the New Rules
 --COach Reid, of Harvard, Chosen
 Secretary.
 New York, Jan. 12.-A move which is taken to mean much toward establish ing intercollegiate football on a higher plane than it hitherto has occupied, and reform in the more undesirable details of the sport, was made here to- night when the old football rules com mittee, which for many years past has dictated the form the sport should take, voted to amalgamate with the new com mittee appointed by the so-called re- form conference, recently held in this university and attended by the repre- sentatives of sixty-eight colleges and universities throughout the country.
 The old and new committees met at separate hotels tonight, but it was soon apparent that amalgamation was at hand and committees were appointed to confer with each other. An agree ment was soon reached and when the consolidation was perfected it was agreed that Walter Camp, of Yale, should edit the new rules. MT. Camp was member of the old committee. l.. c. E. Dennis of Cornell, was elected chairman of the newly-formed joint committee, and J. A. Babbitt, of Haver- ford, was chosen secretary, 1t having been agreed that the chairman should come from the old committee and the secretary from the new MT. Babbitt resigned in favor of w. T. Reid, jr. of Harvard, who was then unanimously chosen secretary
 A feature of the separate conference was the appearance of MT. Reid at meeting of the new committee, Har- ward having formally withdrawn from the old committee. MT. Reid, in the JOlnL OlSdlllAdLlOliJ ICplC~ scented the new committee. The old committee was composed of representa- tives of Yale Princeton, PenHsylyania, Hars Cornell, Chicago and Annapo-
 The joint committee is now made up as follows:
 L. c. E. Dennis, Cornell; w. T. Reid, jr., Harvard; Walter Camp, Yale: J. B. Fine, Princeton; John c. Bell, Penn sylvania; Paul Dashiel, Annapolis; Alonzo A. Stagg, Chicago; E. K. Hall, Dartmouth; Lieutenant c. T. Daly, West Point; J. A. Babbitt, Hayerford; e. w. Savage, OIberlin; F. H. Curtis, University of Texas; Harry L, Will Hams, University of Minnesota, and J. T. Lees, University of Nebraska.
 The amalgamation was perfected aft CT there had been two joint confer ences. Then followed discussion as to the modification of the rules.
 Mr Camp, who will edit these, is known to be an advocate of certain re- forms which will result in more open play. The members of the new com mittee who went into the amalgama- ton are pledged to various amendments to the rules. Mir. Camp recently sug- gested that the ground to be gained in three downs should be ten yards in- stead of five.
 Mr. Dennis of Cornell said tonight he was in favor of the forward line being opened completely across the AaId y,,alripcr a n oheoIrta11r oyoy, ,,,o This would leave the ends equally weak, but at the same time would make it possible for many plays through the center, and more of a game with considerable running.