Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-27
Athletic Officials of Conference
Schools Favor Drastic Foot
Ball Rule Changes
MICHIGAN GROWS HOST
Iowa Not Represented at the Meeting
Of "Bis Nine" College Men Who
Framed Proposed Amendments =
Scarlet and Black Hits the Keynote
DIR. MoniIaw for S. U. I.

nine" schools held in Chicago Thurs
day, those chosen are in New York
today attending the second conference
OF what was originally the sixty
eight" colleges. The recommendations
Of changes in foot ball rules, which the
committee representing the conference
school took east with it, are more or
less drastic and are widely at variance
with the present rules of the game.
4 They provide for rules which
legalize advancing the ball ten yards
in four downs rather than in three; to
allow forward passes; privilege of
kicking on the fourth down; five men
on the scrimmage line of the team on
the defense II ten yards advance in
three downs is required; hurdling pro-
hibited; stricter Interpretation of the
rules and more officials If necessary.
The schools represented at this con-
ference were the universities of Illi-
. nois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota,
and Nebraska and Chicago University.
Iowa, Michigan and Northwestern I'm
iversity were not represented.
This conference, with others of SIM
liar nature give promise of resulting
second only to the war between the
major base ball leagues which is still
fresh in the minds of magnates About
month ago those chosen to speak for
sixty-eight schools and colleges of the
east and middle west, met in New York
and selected a committee of three to
meet with the intercollegiate foot ball
rules committee in Philadelphia for
the avowed purpose of injecting into
the rules some of the proposed reforms,
which discussion brought out as need7
full, at the meeting of the sixty EIGHT.
The rules committee, which in reality
represents only Princeton, Harvard,
Yale, Pennsylvania and one or two
others of the big eastern schools, turn
cd down cold the visiting committee.
AS a result the visiting committee left
for home. { The Chicago meeting was
held and the sixty-eight are in New
York today to frame rules of their own.
In the meantime Michigan has grown
hostile, nursing the belief that Chicago
is striving to dominate the making of
the rules for the service Of Chicago and
aas against Michigan. Therefore Mich
igan will take no part. Also in the
meantime another bunch of western
school representatives met at the Beach
hotel in Chicago and framed UP So
called needed reforms to suit them
selves. This action was taken as hos
tile to the efforts of the sixty eight and
there the situation rests. What the
outcome may be is yet to develop. 1t
may result in rules by which the east
will play, and others which the middle
west will adopt.
The evils OF the professional foot
ball coach is most truthfully voiced in
the following taken from the Scarlet
and Black, the Iowa College, Grim
nell, publication:
Last fall the alumni paid a pro-
Sessional coach an unknown sum
to leave his business and develop a
winning team. OF course the contri-
buttons were voluntary on the part Of
alumni and is the common practice at
other schools. The coach came and
was fairly successful so far as victor
ies go. yet his influence and his teach
ing were disgrace to an institution
which prides itself on clean athletics.
The men were taught how to injure
their opponents in the game without
detection and were shown several
tricks which any gentleman would be
ashamed to practice anywhere ourslue
OF foot ball game. The watthword
was, "To Win and at Any Cost" and
no matter what means you use. OF
course, you say, foot ball is no pink
tea affair and such things are to be
expected, yet we ask If such a game
can be termed a manly sport by any
fair-minded student
DR.. Monilaw, who for several years
past has been the physical director Of
Drake University, Is said to be the
man slated for the position of trainer
for the State University of Iowa foot
team. 1t appears that Monilaw only
lost the position last spring by mat
ter Of hours. It had been offered to
him only little while, it is said, after
r had signed mp with Drake Univer-
sity, for another period. Delaney
tn. tabea - the most available
man. Delaney was to have trained
the foot ball team last fall, and when
he was let out, Immediately after his
election Iowa was left without a foot
ball trainer and none was employed.
Monilaw was still held by his contract
with Drake and Catlin was hired as
coach for the track team this spring.
The Interstate Baseball League,
com posed of Kalamazoo, Battle Creek,
Jackson, Muskegon and Saginaw in
Michigan, and Fort Wayne and Marion
In Indiana, has been launched and
will begin its playing season about
May 15. The fact that John Camel will
back the team at Saginaw and place
his brother Joseph in charge of the
team there leads to the belief that the
league will accept class C protection
and become sort Of farm for the
Central League. AS the smallest town
on the circuit has population of 25.-
900 and the average population is near
10000, the circuit should be a success.
Nearly all of the cities are also con-
nected by interurban lines and this
will greatly reduce the mileage.
For any disease Of the skin there Is
nothing better than Chamberlain's
salve- It relieves the itching and burn
ing sensation instantly and soon effects
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