The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-16
YALE HAS JUMP
NO OTHER COLLEGES
Walter Camp Ran Ellis Through
Long and Thorough
Spring Practice.
REVISED FOOTBALL PUTS
PREMIUM ON PUNTERS
New Rules Call for Manicures,
as Long Finger Nails Are
Barred.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
BOSTON, Mass, Sept 15.-An un-
usual amount of interest is being dis
played by coaches TO learn what style
Of game other coaches are thinking OF
employing under the new rules lt rs
safe to say that because of the radical
changes there will be more new plays
and formations sprung this fall tnan
in the entire previous history OF the
game. The new rules will make 1t
absolutely necessary for the coaches
to use their inventive ability, and
good many of them have been labor
ing over new plays for good part oil
their summer vacations, Naturally
good many of the new plays Will have
to be discarded as useless, for their
availa bility cannot be properly tested
except in real game.
Yale Has the Advantage.
The Yale coaches seem to have taken
the most advanced steps in solving the
new plays which can and should be used
this fall The Ellis held an, unusually.
long and thorough practice last spring
and the players mastered good many
points about the new style of football.
The presence of Walter Camp, the
editor of the new rules, enabled the
Yale men TO understand q good many
points in advance of the other teams.
Juet whst the Ellis propose to spring
this fall no one knows TO a certainty.
But information has leaked out of one
peculiar formation on which the most
time was spent in practice last spring,
In this. formation there were ten men
on the line OF scrimmage, the only one
behind 1t being the quarterback 1t
can be seen at q glance that this play
is intended as q trick and is capable
of more variations than the famous
wing shift used to such good advantage
by the Carlisle Indians. The play is
capable of r great many tricks, criss-
crosses and cross bucks 1t should be
noted, however, that this formation was
Just as feasible under the old rules as
under the new, Under the old rules
coaches apparently did not think it
necessary to use their ingenuity Now
they are applying all their ability to
the new rules, and as result there
ought to be much real progress made
in the matter of new and original
plays.
Game Calls for Punters.
What is to be one of the features
of football under the new rules is the
great emphasis which coaches every
where have decided to place on kick
ing. A long and consistent puuter
promises to be about the most valuable
man on the team, and man who can
outkick all his rivals is virtually sure
to his place on the team, even If he is
inferior in other respects, To make GER
tain that this sort of game would be
properly developed, the leading insti-
buttons last spring held special punting
contests for their players, and many Of
the men were instructed to take foot
balls home with them on their summer
vacations and there TO practice punting
and drop kicking.
The real reason for emphasizing the
kicking game is not that good kicking
Is to be rewarded any more than it
ever was. 1t is merely because the new
rule requiring the ball to be advanced
ten yards in three downs will so fire.
quently put a team in such a plight
that it will be required to kick much
ofteneI, and long punting will mean
more than it ever did. And under such
circumstances II is TO be regretted that
there are few frst-class punters in any
East has not been able to boast of
any good kicker since the day Of John
Dewitt, the old Princeton captain.
But the poor supply of kickers is not
due to the fact that good kickers could
not be developed. 1t is rather due to
lack of attention paid to this depart
ment of the game. Now that there is
may expect to see host of good kick
ers turned out in all the Eastern col
leges. Furthermore, the rise in the
standard of punting will be followed
by similar rise in the standard of drop
kicking. Both of these changes will
be most welcome TO a follower of the
game.
Manicures Will Be Essential.
Manicures will be as essential to the
new football as bone settlers were to
the old, for no match may now be en-
tered into by any youth who has pro-
Jecting finger nails If it should han
pen that he finds himself on the grid
iron without having complied with this
provision he has just two minutes in
which to avail himself Of the services
of manicure.
It stands none the less written, No.
/, section E. is as follows:
No player having projecting nails
on his person will be permitted to PLAY
in match. Penalty, suspension unless
the fault is corrected in two minutes -
No football player who is particular
about how his finger nails look could
have them properly manicured in two
minutes. it is feared, but the length
Of the appendages is left to the discrc-
tion Of the umpire.
Several or rne yuubas Ere deeply con-
cerned, for the prevailing style of foot
ball player is likely to insist upon hav-
ing lis .cils long and tapering.
When men are left unconscious on the
field, waiting Identification. it sounds
better In newspaper dispatches TO saw.
"Their hands were carefully manicured
and showed them to be persons Of cul-
ture and refinement. and evidently quite
unaccustomed to manual labor
FAMOUS sPRINTER WILL COACH