Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-28
Fifty COLLEGES
SEE THE DANGER
III American Football Stays. Its Pcrlls
Must he Rcmoycd-Important
Meeting Today.

New York Dec. 27.-Fifty colleges out
OF Approximately GA In the intercollegi-
ale athletic association. have voted Tor
the retention or American football games
with the elimination OF mass plays ard
other dangerous plays,
rms WAS made known today by toe ex-
ecutivc committee OF the association on
'hc eve OF u meeting to be held lomor-
row.
blVe institutions voted that the present
game Is satisfactory except In minor de-
taIlsi /, favored the English game OF
huSOJ Took midway position between
the American and RugDy and voted that
elther the American game should be rad
lcaiiy changed or Rugby substituted.
lie executive committee. 1t was an
nounced, favored the changes proposed
by the athletic committee OIL West Point
ana VIII so report tomorrow The West
Poine committee has prepared a resolu-
tion declaring that football mas developed
dangers that are recognized 10 be in
toierable and that IL has become neces-
sary 10 eradicate undue roushncss
Among the abuses OF the game the
West Point committee names:
An excessive desire to win Mt any coet
which develops a tendency TO selni-pro-
tessional games; the practise OF employ
ing coaches not identined with the college,
and dependence on prepondcrant weight
and strength instead of mental acuteness
criminato playing OF obviously over
matched contests should be prohibited,
and 10 this end the forward pass is con-
demned as extremely dangerous because
OF the unprotected position of the player
receiving the pass Dragging and pulling
of a fallen player Is condemned. anG pen
alties are provided for players pulling
upon a man who has fallen with ball.
SiNty-four delegates and Is non-mcm-
bers of the association VIII attend the
ha &c
not a governing body, and has no direct
control over college sports. but whatever
1t recommends Will more than likely meet
with the approval OF the rules committee.
The fact that the executive committee
favors tho West Point resolution indl-
Gates that the game play Will be changed.
The executive committee consists of
Capt. Palmer B. Pierce of West Point.
chairman; Prof Savage of oberlin,
Prof. Nicholson of Wesleyan, Coach
Stagg of the University of Chicago, and
Philips of Amherst.
Phil King. three times quarterback
on the all-Amcrlcan football team and
now an advisory coach at Princeton.
changing the rules of football to the
Intercollegiate Athletic association as
follows;
play the backs fve yards back of
the line OF scrlmmage.
PLAY seven men on the line OF de-
fense at all times, 10 Offset tho line OF
defense spreading against that forma-
tion, and allow the quarterback to run
anywhere with the ball.
I'm the event that the forward pass
IS retained, remove all restrictions. al
lowing passes over the line and al
lowing any player to recover the ball
after it has been touched and FUN
bled. sat
Arrange one-minute rests at tho
end Of each 10. % and 30-minrtc pc
riods. giving the captain ample time
to look over his -men and NOTE, their
condition and fitness to remain IN, tho
game No coach OF other man con-
nected with a contestlng team to be
allowed on the field In the period OF
rest" d