The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-27
THE FORWARD PASS iC.@ a-- T Rule Altered Inflicting Loss of Ball After an Illegal
 Touch.
FEARED TO GO FURTHER
More Radical Changes Might Destroy the Effect of the Play-Inter-
 mission Rule.

The American Intercolle late Football Rules committee decided on the for ward pass for the next season and ad- journed yesterday afternoon. leaving the drafting of the rules in the hands of committee, consisting of Walter Camp of Yale, Prof. l.. NJ. Dennis of Cornell, and E. K. Hall of Dartmouth. subject to the approval of the remain der of the committee by small vote There will be, it is expected, no fur ther meetings of the committee during the spring or summer.
 Almost all of the twenty-four hours devoted to rule discussion was given to the forward pass.
 The wording of the rule concerning the illegal touching of the ball, was left with the others in the hands of the phrasing committee of three The in structions given them were as follows:
 A forward pass illegally touched goes to the opponents on the spot from which the pass was made.
 Of the passers side only the man who first legally touches the ball may there after recover 1t until 1t has been touch- ed by an opponent.
 If the forward pass is legally touched and then is free upon sne ground and Is touched by another player of the passer's side. the ball goes to the op- ponents on the spot where he improp- erly touches 1t.
 There was another restriction passed bearing upon the forward pass, treat ing with the rights of the players while the ball Is in the air. These instruc- tions were:
 While forward pass is in the air the players on the derensIve side may not use their hands or arms on their opponents except to push them out oi the way In order to get at the ball themselves
 The players of the side making the forward pass and whv are eligible to receive the pass may use their hands and arms just as the players may wher going down under a kick.
 The incidents that caused sso much discussion in the Yale Princeton game and in the Yale-Harvard game brought rule changes. It Is declared:
 The intern,ission shall be fifteen min. lutes between the haives. Three min utes before the expiration of that time the referee shall cause each team to bt notified of the time At the end of if teen minutes he shal blow his whistle in the centre of the field. If a tean fails to appear within two minute, thereafter the offended side shall put the ball in play as a first down or the offending sides 3o-yard line.
 The Yale Harvard incident that occa stoned change of rule was the uues ton that arose over the penalizatior of Harvard for asking the call of tim, in excess of the number of times allow ed team. Harvard was penalized two yards, but the rule requires that tn, distance to be gained an dthe number Of the down shall remain the same. Tn marking lines were removed, and | was question whether Yale gained the required distance. As touchdown resulted the question was a serious one ~ ID 'ipN uoeiutu tlpdt III bucn an III stance the sticks shall not be moved but the ball shall be. moved either for ward or back two yards, according t the side offending, and the attackin, team shall have to gain 70 a pon , either two yards in front of, or tw yards back of, the further stick. I was also decided that all penalties in f1icted by the umpire except disuualifi cation may be declined
 The rule referring to batting the bal forward, breach of which give Prince ton touchdown against the Indians was changed. The penalty hereafte Tor batting the ball forward shall b the loss of the ball on the spot to tn i offended side, instead of the old dis f tance penalty of twenty-five yards,