The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-10
SPORT
REVISED RULES
Fur FOOTBALL
FOR IDEAL GAME
WHICH WILL MEET WITH GEN
ERAL FAVOR.

/ If the efforts of certain members of
| the football Rules Committee which is
/ now engaged i'm a complete revision of
the gridiron game are successful there
will be a radical change i'm the sche-
dule of the eastern and western uni
versty teams next fall Not only
will football be played at number
of institutions where the game is at
present under the ban, but there will
be contests between teams which in
recent years have not meet on the line
scored field of play. The statement
is made that football is likely to be
played at both Harvard and Columbia
next year; that Tennsylvania and
Princeton will meet as we'll as Harvard
and Cornell and other startling innova-
lions in both schedules and game will
be in evidence after the Committee
finishes its labors. An explanation of
the plans and ideas of the more radical
of the refOrmers appears to make these
surprising changes not only possible,
but probable as well. The opposition
that has developed at Columbia and
Harvard is directed at the game as
played by the teams of the two uni
versities and their rivals within the
past few years. The stanchest ad-
vocate of the football play of 1905 will
not deny that certain Objectionable
features have crept into the game dur
ing the past decade which made the
cutlery against football far from I'M
reasonable. No inherent objection a
gainst football based on radical lines
exists at Harvard, Columbia or the
other colleges whose faculties have
been foremost in the crusade against
the modern football game. This fact
is recognized and appreciated by the
members of the rules committee Ma
objection is raised against baseball
hockey and lacrosse contests and with
reasonable restrictions of the personal
contact" idea there wiuld be no OBJ
lection to the gridiron game.
At Harvard the athletic committee is
waiting to see what the result of the
revision of the football code will pro-
duce. Members of the Columbia faculty
have been quoted as saying that if in
tercollegiate football was more like
Rugby no objection could be found to
the game To satisfy the faction that
objects to anything like the game play
ed last year it is being changed in
many respects. If the more radical
reformers have their way the football
of 1906 will be as much unlike the game
of 1905 as is possible to imagine. tt
will combine the open features of Rug
by and lacrosse and will not be nearly
so wearing or disabling as the game
of the past. Consequently the players
next fail will be able to dispense with
the hospital corps, special training
tables, long periods of rest between the
games and other features that have
been a thorn in the side of the facul-
ties of the big colleges. Under these
ideal conditions it will be possible for
a university eleven to play more so
called big games" and this is what the |
shrewd undergraduate managers ar e |
figuring on. Preliminary negotiations |
for games with college teams which in
the past Princeton, Pennsylvania, Yale |
and other teams have been unable to !
meet owing to the strain on the play !
ers, have caused the rumors of the re-
newed athletic relations between va
rious eastern and western universities. ,
the football teams of which have not |
clashed for some seasons.
The only teams who will not abide
by the rulings of the rule committee
are those of Stanford University and |
of the University of California Dur
ing all the hue and cry that was raised
against the modern gridiron game these
two universities showed an inclination1
to break away from the hubbub raised
in the east They decided to carry
on the athletic relations, in regard to
football, that have existed so long and
between them. Both uni
Versities appointed members of a local
rule committee who met and after
much discussion decided to abide by
the old rules. There is not much doubt
however, that if the revised game
proves a success but that they will
eventually adopt it. That however re.
mains to be seen for next year the
California gridiron will witness the