Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-04
Yale Wants the Forward
Pass Abolished.
On Grounds That Il Permits
Inferior Teams to Win.
Quarterback Jones of Yale In Hos
piia! For Injuries.

New Haven Conn. Dec. Yale
football officials have started move
1nent for the abolition Of the forward
pass. as allowed by the 1901 football
code. on IT," ground that irdiscriminate
Throwing Of the bal 9roInI makes il
possible for an inferior eleven TO win
Walter Camp. Iaie's athletic ;:dVl@er,
Monday stamped his di5gprrpI1i If the
pass as allowed at present, AMI it IS
certain that Yale VIII ende3vor in tn"
meeting of the rules committee this
Writer to have the rule altered MI.
Camp wrote in the Yale News as fol-
low:
''The American collegian, whether
spectator or player. does not care for Il
game in which the element Of chance
is paramount. He likes to see or play
a game where hard work counts, and
game where definite planning secures
well appreciated results. For this rea
son he does not care for the unlimited
forward pass. which can now be tried
without severe penalty on first and
second down. Throwing the ball around
indiscrinnatel may he the last resort
of a weak or inferior team. and, as
such, is unsatisfactory.
I'm other respects, like the separation
of the line Of Scrmmage and the inn
provement in the general conduct and
spirit Of the play. the rules have fully
justified themselves and have rendered
the game more popular than ever.
when the new rules were first liz
troduced two years ago. there We're
many who contcnded that it was too
mol, 10 ,ir6 % hot in,
ten yards in three downs and the pre-
diction was made no score games
would put an end to the ten-yard rule
in short order. The contrary has proven
true and already there are those who
would like to see the forward pass more
restricted, relying upon it as It was
year ago. or even eliminating it alto
gether and keeping onside kick and ten
yard rule. What was needed in the
game was primarily to lessen value OF
possession of the ball and this the ten
yard rule achieved. With its introduce
ton there went out of the game all
the close hammering mass PLAYS which
were good for two or three yards or a
down and no more"
Capt Bigelow Of the Yale Football
eleven announced that the election Of
captain for next year had been post
poned till about Jan Is This action
was taken because of the illness of
Quarterback Tad Jones. who is in Il
New York hospital. Jones wrenched hi;
back in the Yale Harvard game and
went to New York surgeon for treat
ment Immediately after the match
1t was decided to place him In a hos
pital for trea tmcnt and he has writ
ten to his Yale friends that it will be
necessary for him to remain there three
or four weeks. His trouble has been
diagnosed as water of the back and 1t
has been found necessary to strap him
tightly up in order that the water may
be removed.
He will be obliged to lie quietly in
this position a fortnight Jones back
was first injured in the Yale Harvard
game year ago and the strain he re
Ceived at Cambridge Nov. Is is really
the re-opening of an old wound. Jones
has written to his friends here that his
condition is no way serious and that he
viii fully recover in month He is
the Yale baseball captain for the con-
ing year and he expects to call out the
candidates in January
He is member of the senior class
and Is not 4 candidate for the football
captaincy at the coming election.
1t is u Yale custom however. not to
hold the annual election till every
player who took part in the Yale Har-
ward game can cast a ballot.