The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-09
IN The FOOTBALL WORLD.
COMPARISON or SCORES IN THE
NEW GAME AND THE OLD.
Westerners Raise n Point In Regard 10
the Fair Catch How Coach Roper
Came 10 Be Ordered From the field
California Impressions Of Revised Rules

came To Be DruereN FFOm ~
California Impressions Of Revised hules'
Comparisons OF scores made In football games
ths fall and for "A corresponding period last
year show the scoring results TO be practlcahy
the same. SO far IA these scores are a CTI-
terion the apprehension mat the new rules
would make gaining 40 difficult that there
would not be enough scoring TO make the
game Interesting il Rromdless. the new
game makes one means Of ground gaming
more dinicult-that being straight line puck
ing but It also widens the general scope OF
ground gaining. Scores so far this year IN
dicate that what hHN been taken away py
the ten yard rule aud cOrollarN measures III
! Increasing the difficulty Of line bucking
has been made up for in the encouragement
| OF and provisions for a more open and more
varied game,
As between the relative weakening or
siren gthening of offence AZ compared TO de-
fence under the new rules. IL Is hard 10 say
The scores this season taken In the aggregate
do not show that the smaller teams nave
done any more in the accumulation OF points
against big adversaries than they did last
year. Indeed, ten early games taken at
random this year and ten last year snow
tn at the smaller teams have made fewer points
than last year. on the other hand. col-
| sidering the matter individually. the records
Of ten teams show that the smaller teams
have done better this year in holding down
their stron ger opponents. The matter OF
the showing of the strong and the weak,
one against the other. IL on the whole bal
ancpd in about the same proportion as last
year.
The ten teams included in this reckoning
are Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Dartmouth
Pennsylvania, West Point. the Indians, Cor
nell. Brown and Lafayette. or this list
Princeton, Dartmouth, pennsylvania. Har;
ward. Brown and West Point have scored
fewer points against opponents than for a
GTS~rresPondnG number ! sG T Sa Ta9 foIioW Ss' year
1905 - Harvard. 5G opponents. O.. Yale a: op-
ponrnts, 0. Princeton, "a: opponents, .. Psnnsyi'
Carlisle, iA; opponents, o. brown, 40; opponents, g.
Dartmouth ICIsn AZ Tes SpeeS oISfl y; 0; opp nataSs'tss' w. op
1908 Harvard, "a; opponents. Q. Yale; ~; opp.o-
nents,O. Princeton, 81; opponents PennsyiVsnis.
Isle, is; opponents. 4; Brown. 30 opponents, 0.
I Dartmouth w 49, oP PDiSI, IS o % n .. W
The tota points by the teams namsi in tho
first ten games in 1905 were 5Si 10 Ks Tor oppo-
nents. The total this year Tor the nTst zen
game OF the same ten teams s15i to?l lot
opponents.
Wesst las, Week, presided over by Walter
Camp, additi Onal enlightenment was asked
for on the same point thas Gsos . io NOS con 9oT-
enCe. The %esteTners wanted 70 know ahont
the right Of a team TO taEe y me man 3ack
] ana IneH HllON IIl W Flui w 'H' 49, 49,
ward, A in the East, the question was re-
ferred TO the rules Commlttee, though the
CONSENSUS Of opinion IN ne Sor MS tboy was pnr rn1s a
than Kicking should he required 10 stay back
or leave the game. Another point rdlseI ~
the Western conference was regarding 4 ialr
catch. whether a man on side when. the Dali
was Kicked had the right TO hterIere WIZ
the man making the catch, Camp said the
rule was MOI clear on that point, which. also.
was referred to the rules committee; custom
F.- 49, .h,ttl1 ha anIITplA mnmOlpStp 0 ana
the committee probably viii rule that way
r. WA. the misfortune of Head Coach Roper
Of Princeton 10 be sent on the field by the
referee in the very first game ms team played
this year Apropos Of ms ln;iaeht ' WeafT,
LOWING from the friNceloh ''''"" "''''
Is interesting:
In the Vulanova game the onhciais, while gen
heir strict adherence to the letter OF the law. For
instance. Head Coach Roper OF princeton wa
lear, hui for his generosity In acceding 10 a re
quest Of the vllanova captain, Late in the game
Inc visiting team ran out Of substitutes 10 this
emergency VLlanoya regScsiSd APP D ~ Taiu r
To the game. ovcrhcaring which, Mr.. Roper called
from the sldelIncs TO grant the reanc sro,, r %. ' IN
closure under the rule forbldding a coach TO speak
to his team during a game
Rugby has not the whole field to itsel
in california, even If the University OF CaIL
fornia and Leland Stanford have taken II
M and foTsaken the college game. Recently
there was a game in southern SaIlornlt
under the new rules between school eleNens
. and anon e the comments made in an account
Of it were the following A..
1T was the first of the class games ira
have been substitutes for the class rush es
4 and the chan &c met with the unanimous
approval of the students
40 a good idea as to just how the new gam.
will differ from the old could not be Obtained
0 but it Is certain hat the play WI oe NOR ne,
Of dirty playing in scrimmages largel!
From a spectacular standpoint the new
game is far superior 10 the old one. Their
were many, pretty end runs IN yesterday.
: game and the people in the bleachers wer
able TO follow the ball throughout the game
I WEST POINT. Oct. s.-The caches for tn
. West Point football team are getting int
shape the men who will COMPOSE the regula
A team for the season. Philoon seems TO b.
I the most promising candidate for centre
before coming 20 West Point. Christy an,
e jenkins I'LL the guard positions, and Erwi
: and sultan a.. are cS az I bsya 10 I deal wine Wttb
= hiding two satisfa Glory ends. Carey an
a Weeks have been tried for these position
d at present. Both men are old and experience
a players but neither has ever Tiled an en-
position before, W SsTf Pyoi mas a. pibS ss also uWSt Nee
at guard. The quarterback position
being ably filed by johnson. The halfback
: are experienced players. Beavers is pIayin
fulIback on account Of his great sprintin
ability. He seems TO have the call on thl
;, position. These are many candidates 10
1 positions on the team.
a NEW HAVEN, Oct. 8.-When the coaches "a
day took the Yale squad in hand u was wit
e the purpose OF infusing life into the defenc
h and two long periods Of scrimmage weT
d gone through with this idea in mind. PaI
{ ticular stress was laid on the line men froI
tackle 10 tackle to get ava quickly when IN
i Cpposing side has the ball. The centre trl
"A was taught to take chances and not 10 hu
a the scrimmage line but to get away an
e break up the formations on the opposln
sides. The varsity showed not a little in
r provement over the last practice in this r.
= spect and often smashed up the trick play
t attempted by the second eleven. Both III
= varsity and the second eleven tried forwaT
{ passes that went better than they had PR
r vioIsly and other tricks got on in slickt
style than usual. Kicking Is being used MOI
n and more by the Yale squad. Paige, a bi
guard who made good as a substitute q yea
ago, il now free from schOla rship difficultit
and has Joined the varsity squad,
5 CAMBRIDGE, Oct. S.-Harvard's footba
d SQUAD had only light work to-day, a. the hi
" weather on Saturday took il out OF the mel
= starr. who got a bad leg bruise on SATURDAY.
was not out in toys to-dHy. .Newhall, WI
has been laid up for a few days. was on
doing light work with Wendell and lnChe
who are also nursing slight injuries,
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