The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
YALE'S POSITION
ON INAUGURATION
Ellis Wish Old Committee to Re
tain Balance Of
Power.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. s10.-The situation in
the matter of making new football rules Is at
a standstill SO far as Yale Is concerned for the
present. Walter Camp, Yale's representative
on the rules committee will ascertain their
opinion the question of having the rules
committee consolidate with the AcCracken COM
mittee While Yale has not made any official
statement OF her position in this matter, the
sentiment seems to be that Yale will not OPP
pose the admission to the rules committee of
two representatives of the McCracken committee,
but there is decided objection on the part of
Yale men to giving the McCracken committee
an oppol tunty to get control of the rules COM
mittee. N
The reason for this is briefly as follows: Yale's
| football men do not propose to go back on the
old rules committee They intend to stand by
the old committee, and they do not propose to
allow men " no know very little about football
to make the rules for the game that Yale Is to
play. The feeling here is that there are some
conservative men on the McCracken committee
who know football, but there are others who
do not know anything about the game, and that
! it would be simply planning to bring about the
| end of football to allow these men to make
rules In a word, Yales position is that she is
willing to be fair and to deal with men who
know football but that she does not propose to
| ALLOW The game to be ruined by men who osnot
| understand it.
4 Thinks Situation Is Improving.
While this is Yale's feeling about the situation
there is also feeling that the outlook for the
game is improving. The fact that the conserva-
/ tive men who know football won out at the
NcCracken conference and that these same con-
seryatire who on the McCracken
committee seem inclined to take up the problem
| in businesslike way, Is encouraging to Yale's
football experts. Yale men,, however, believe
that it will take a long, hard fight to settle the
question of new rules. The reason for this is
that there are only few men who have studied
! the game sufficiently to be able to make rules,
| aud that there are great many who want to
make rules who do not know the game and who
will have to be educated up to any new rules
| that may be made. 1t Is also the opinion here
that the 1O-yard rule Is coming into favor and
| that sooner or later it will be adopted a.
| 1t is an Interesting fact that Yale has a
| larger number Of representatives on the two
| football rules committees than any other uni
| yerstty. Alonzo Stage of the University of Chi
caso a NE mber of the regular rules committee,
was Yale's ole baseball pitcher who graduated
in 1SSS. g. H. L.. Williams of the McCracken
committee graduated from Yale in 1891 Stagg
playtJ end when he was at Yale, but was a
much Letter baseball player than football play
or. Harry Williams was halfback, but he
/ was better hurdler than he was halfback
and It was in the hurdles that he won his great
est honors III athletics. Since graduating from
Yale he has studied medicine and has won hon
ors athletic instructor first at the Penn Char
ter school at Philadelphia and later at the
University of Minnesota. These two men, to-
gether with Walter Camp, give Yale three rep
resentatives in this Joint committee. If the
committee decides to consolidate, Harvard has
two representatives. one in each committee w.
T. Reid in the rules committee and G.. D. DAILY
in the McCracken committee. t-sss-. II .-5.,,s e.
/ : :- = Look for Amalgamation.
. The general impression is that the two COM
mittees will be amalgama ted, but that the old
rules committee will hold the balance Of power
and that In the end there will be formulated a
set Of rules that will be satisfactory to all
cerned. Yale of course is deeply interested In