The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-18
rHE NEW noon BALL RrLEs.

chairman; W. T. Reid, IT,, Harvard secretary; James A, Rabbit, Haver- ford; John c. Bell, University of Penn sylvania; Walter Camp, Yale, r. Ho- mer Curtiss ((Texas), Southern col leges; Charles D. Daly, West Point; Paul J. Dashiell, Annapolis; j. B. Fine, Princeton; E. K. Hall Dartmouth; James T. Lees, University O. Nebras- ka; c, W. Savage, Oberlir, A. w.. Stagg, University of Chicago, and H. L. Williams. University of Minnesota, have completed their revision of the rules, and they are published in Spald- ings Official Foot Ball Guide, which has been designated as the official pub- lication
 The chief alterations in the rules for this season are as follows
 The officials of the game shall be a referee, two umpires and a linesman.
 It is, however, allowable to dispense with the second umpire at the discre- tion of the two institutions involved.
 The length of the game has been shortened by ten minutes, making the two halves each thirty minutes in length.
 The line of scrimmage for each side is an imaginary line parallel to the goal line and passing through that point of the ball nearest the sides goal line.It will be noted that there are thus two lines of scrimmage, one for each team, and the two teams are thus separated the length of the ball.
 The snapper-back must place the ball flat upon the ground with its long axis at right angles to the line of scrimmage.
 It has also been provided that a player to be on the line of scrimmage must have both hands or both feet up to or within one foot of this line. Or he must have one foot and the opposite hand up to or within one foot of it.. He must also stand with both feet outside the outside foot of the player next to him unless he be one of the two men standing on either sde of the snapper-back, in which case he may lock legs with the snapper-back.
 A player attempting to make a fair catch must signal his intention by raising his hand clearly above his head while advancing toward the ball.
 Further addition has been made to the rule regarding down That is, that the referee shall blow his whistle whenever any portion of the person of the runner with the ball, except his hands or feet, touches the ground while he Is in the grasp of an oppo- nent. The ball is also down" when as specified in the rules. it goes across the goal line on a kick which has struck the ground in the field of play, except the kickoff, and also when il goes oyer in the same manner from a forward pass.
 Tripping is specifically defined as fol- lows:
 A player trips another player when he obstructs him below the knee with that part of his leg that is below the knee
 Hurding in the open is jumping over or attempting to jump over an oppo' nent who is still on his feet, Hurding in the line is jumping over or attempt Ing to jump over player on the line of scrimmage with the feet or knees foremost within distance of five yards on either side of the point where the ball is put in play.
 Regarding the taking out of time, il is provided that either captain may ask for time three times during the half without penalty. If thereafter either captain requests time, his side shall be penalized by loss of two yard! for each call, unless the player be re. moved from the game.
 Further provision is made agains' interference with the man snappins the ball back. The opponents mus neither interfere in any way whatever with him, nor touch him nor the bal until 1t is actually put in play. The snapper-back is allowed to have his head also the hand or foot used ir snapping the ball, off-side.
 There must always be at least six p1en of the side in possession of tho ball on the line of scrlmmage and it only six are on the line, one of those not on the line must have both feel outside the outside foot of the player on the end of the line
 Furthermore no player of those or. dinarily occupying the position of cen ter, guard or tackle, that is, the fly, middle players of the line, may drol back from the line of scrimmage ol the offense unless he goes back at leas five yards, and another player take his place on the line.
 is furthermore provided that ther, shall be no shifting of men to evad, this rule, the intention being that tht big men in the middle of the line shal not be dropped back for the purpose O carrying the ball or using their weigh In the interference. The dropping back of asingle man five yards in this way is to enable the team to use 6 kicker if he happens to play on the line.
 Holding has been more specifically defined to include the following:
 Grasping an opponent with the hand. or arms, placing the hands upon an! part of the opponent with the arm any use of the arms to hit an oppo nent in blocking. The only allowabl use of the arm in blocking or obstruct ing an opponent is with the arms clos, to the body.
 The most radical of all change, made, however, has been the introduc tion of the forward pass, the rule fo this reading as follows:
 One forward pass shall be allowed to each scrimmage, provided sucl pass be made by a player who was be hind the line of scrimmage when thu ball was put in play, and provided thu