The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-15
FOOTBALL RULES
TO BE M0D|F led.
Committees Appointed on
details to Report to Newly
Formed National Body.
QUESTION OF SUBSTITUTES
Representative Insists That Spirit
of Game Permits Of Eleven
Men to Play.
QUESTION OF SUBSTITUTES
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Special to Tho Times-Dspatch.)
NEW YORK, January 14.-During the
busiest hours OF tho milkmen yesterday
morning the amalgamated football fac
lions. to be known henceforth as the
American Intercollegiate Football Rules
Committee. broke UP their session in the
Hotel Netherland.
When the amalgamation had been ef-
fected the united body, set grimly to
work to adjust matters SO that there
should be no further shilly-shallying and
have everything shipshape before an
adjournment for notifications of exist
ing rules.
The first step taken was to decide that
eight should constitute q quorum at fu-
ture meetings, while eight votes shall
be necessary for effective legislation
Members of. the committee unable to
attend will. however. have the privilege
OF sending alternates or substitutes.
subcommittee were then appointed
on various details. A subcommittee of
four was appointed for the elimination
of brutality and foul play. Those elect
ed were John C. Bell Pennsylvania,
chairman; Horner Curtis University OF
Texas; DR.. James A. Babbitt, Haver-
ford: Paul Dashiell, Annapolis.
FOR OPENING OUT THE GAME.
The subcommittee on suggestions to-
ward opening out the game was: Walter
Camp, Yale, chairman: FL. X. Hall, Dart
mouth, and William T. Reid, Jr,, Har-
ward. The subcommittee on suggestions
as to the appointment OF n central board
Of officials is: DR.. James A. Rabbit,
.t.-x atS1 n Oatl T.s
Harvard and NJ. Dennis, Cornell.
The subcommittee on suggestions to-
ward a field laboratory: Lieutenant G.
ID. Daily. West Point; j. B. Fine, Prince
ton. and G. w. Savage, Oberlin.
The last named trio will not have any
thing to do with hydrogen. nitrogen or
oxygen, but are apparently called on to
render an analysis on the various formn-
lions in the game.
| announced but one gathered that the
prevailing sentiment favored the sugges-
lions submitted by the Harvard graduate
special committee and published recently
in the Herald.
| A strong point taken by one of the re-
| representatives., and not without support,
| was the questions of substitution after
a game had commenced. His contention
| in substance, was this: Tho American
| maintain the spirit of this means that
eleven picked men shall meet eleven
| picked men, and those men when they
| line up for the kick off must bear the
| brunt of the battle to the end.
IT am convinced that so soon as a
from physical exhaustion or unforeseen
bali was lrst kicked OFF should be allowed
No y 'I sISR til !tTr COUNTER ANcBD.
in other words The rule calling Ios
eleven side should pin the teams .d doWn
| be countenanced once the ball mas oeen
in "} play s,th,et,cs -. have mile races and
| intercollegiate championship the college
man who starts when the pistol fires In
ias He does NOT have go mate s waiting M to
| take his place at some given moment. nor
If he falls during the race has he any
mate waiting to Jump in and continue the
sin addition, to this, as an illustration OF
the unfair spirit which, permits substitu-
tions, Dartmouth. we VIII say. PAYS ale
good team OF eleven men, while the rest
are mediocrities. -.
1T holds It's own agaihss aate ~ foF Lss
mouths somewhat jaded team is confront,
VIGOROUS vi Mesn a Prom the fact that they have
encountered no exertion, have been put to
! no test and have not been called upon
! to exhaust their energies
us this sportsmanlike? Is this the spirit
in which it was intended the rule Should
'.in the days of the Middle Ages. II
eleven gallant knights from France had
entered the fitting ring At keniWor,h ana
to an eleven a side bout, the Fronchmen
would not have expected relays Of eleYens
to enter the lists 80 soon as they bowled
besides all this, If player knows that
his absence will leave a gap IN his team
he is going to be more cautious IN his tac-
tics. He Is not unnecessarily going to rush
| hcadlong into a danger on mere charce
Of putting an opponent out of business.
"substitution, am sure, Is the root OF
roughness and foul play, and am quite
as confident that substitution IS not the
Esprit of the game ~,
The next meeting of the committee will
| be held here January eth.