The Washington herald., 1907-09-16
Football Expert Points Out
Changes. in the Rules.
FORWARD PASS IS FAVORED
BY Substitution Of Distance Penalty
for Loss of Ball, Committee Has
Made Play Less Dangerous Than
Last seasOn-Bettering of scheme
of Omciating-Incrense OF Time.
By WALTER CAMP.

The football season opens on Saturday
/ September q, although only two or thre
teams of class play on that day tn
majority deferring their first contest
until after October J. Williams. up il
the cool hills, viii try a practice gam
on September p. as will also Carlsl
down in Pennsylvania. Penn State &
liable to find it rather warm in Altoona
where they open on that day.
The following Wednesday sees Syracus
I opening its season az Syracuse in a gam,
against Hobart, and on the following Sat
urday. September IS, comes CornelTl
initial game. when they meet Georg
/ Washington at Ithaca. Penn plays Nortl
Carolina on that day. Dartmouth OPEN
with Norwich. at Hanover.
/ With the advent of October matters be
come more interesting
/ on October Yale and Harvard ente
! the lists, Yale meeting Wesleyan at New
! Haven. and Harvard playing Bowdoln a
/ Cambridge. Pennsylvania meets Vulanov;
at Philadelphia. Princeton does not star
in until the following Saturday, October
/ s. when they meet Stevens at Princeton
/ On that same day West Point has a con
/ test with Franklin and Marshall, Will,
Annapolis begins her season with Dlckin
/ son.
Carlisle has mapped out a most sever,
| schedule so far as early starting ang
continued playing Is concerned, and Ger
/ tainly 10y the time they reach Chicago
on November o. for their match Will
| Stegg'a team they should be veterans
indeed. for they play on September q
/ %, D, October 2, 8, e. f9, 26, Novembe,
/ .. 9. Is, and 3. meeting together witt
/ others the following frst-class teams
Penn State. Syracuse. Buckneu, Univer
sity OF Pennsylvania, Princeton, Harvard
! Minnesota. and Chicago.
Army Schedule Lighter.
/ No other team Is quite so ambition,
las this. West Point having attempteJ
/ something Ike it last year, has cut dowr
her schedule quite materially this sea
son. dropping out the Harvard game anj
having her Yale game rather early. Octo
[ Der -. bringing it under the category Of
preparation for their main contest witt
/ Annapolis
They then play Rochester and Colgate
and by November 9 are in shape for O
match with Cornell. which is played al
West Point They then take up Tufts
and Syracuse. and have a fair rest foJ
their fnaI and decisive contest An
napolis worked along that line last sea-
son with better effect than the heavy
killing schedule attempted by West Point
This year Annapolis VIII follow similar
methods. mectiug however, Harvard II
Annapolis on October l9 and Swarth-
more November 9. Penn State Novem-
ber is. and Virginia Polytechnic Novem-
Der o. q schedule which should give them
plenty 20 do
The season in the Middle West pre-
seuts quite q different aspect from that
Of a few years ago. II VIII be remem-
bered that the Conference colleges have
limited the number Of games 10 FIVE. and
this IS the schedule Of ln but Michigan.
Michigan will probably run over two OF
three games.
Chicago vs.. Minnesota.
The most important contest promises 10
be that between Chicago and Minnesota,
at Minnesota. on November 3 on the
same day Michigan Will play Vanderbilt
at Vanderbilt another interesting game,
as Vanderbilt has been coached by Nc
Gugin. formerly under YOst at Michigan.
on November IS Pennsy lvania comes 60
Ann Arb0r for a return game with Mich
igan, and the Western team win en-
deavor 10 wipe out the j to 0 defeat Of
last year. On the same day another re-
turn game will be played which is Of
great Importance, as the Carlisle Indians
meet Minnesota At Minnesota. 1t Will be
remembered that Minnesota was defeat
ed BIZ the Indians by the same score az
to @, that Pennsylvania beat Michigan,
end there Is a great desire 20 show that
this is not a fair comparison OF West
and East. on November 3 the Indians
meet Stages team at Chicago, and this
will probably be the biggest drawing card
of the season on the same day MinnC-
sofa meets Wisconsin at Wisconsin.
out on the Pacific Slope two OF the col
Ieges. Stanford and California, will con-
tinue their experiments with Rugby foot
ball. but the rest, South and North, with
out exception, had such success with the
revised American rules last year that
there is no temptation to follow the lead
Of these two.
Changes in the Rules.
Briefly, there are three important
changes in the rules, one of which, by
lessening the penalty for an Illegal or in
forward pass on the first and
second downs, will lead 10 more tempta-
tion to hurl the ball a long distance dOEn
the field. Secondly. there is the increase
in the playing time of the two halves five
minutes each, which will bring back into
the game something Of the old element Of
endurance. Third. there Is the expansion
and bettering of the scheme Of officials by
the provision of a field Judge, which will
make the rulings more all
embracing
To take these three things up in order:
Forward passes were made during last
season, covering fully the distance that
can be made by a long punt, although
very few teams or individuals discovered