Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-29
RULES COMMITTEES
TO MODIFY
FOOTBALL
Goes to Work With Instructions
to Make Every Efor; to Elm
mate Elements Of Danger
from Game.

IBy Morning journal Special Leased wirel
New York, Dee, 2S.-intercollesiate
Athletic association adopted ana sub
mitted to its rules committee tonight
a resolution calling for a modifica-
ton of the football playing in order
to reduce the injury to contestants to
a minimum.
The following resolution as intro
ducod by Professor l.. X. Han of
Dartmouth was adopted after three
hours discussion:
THAT the football rules committee
of this organization shall be instructed
10 use every possible endeavor 10
bring about such 4 modification OF
the rules as in their Judgment shall
tend to reduce to a minimum the dan
ger of physical injury to players and
at the same time retain as far as pos
sible the most desirable and whole
some features of the game"
only three negative votes were reg
istored against the resolution, but
nearly every college in the west had
something to say concerning it.
Professor Alonzo A.. Stagg of the
University of Chicago. made a motion
that would prohibit all officials of n
football game, including umpires, ref
erees and participants from taking l"
n>newspaper man after the game
Stacg made n strong appeal tor inns
motion, saying he had been grossly
m%isquoted at times, but the conVen-
lion defeated the motion by an oyer
Whelming vote.
The revision OF the game WAS orutl
cd 1t is understood WIN uuc '"tsr'
Grafton OF me issociatl"h VI 81"
Princeton, pennsylvania ,"ihel ~
u few other institutions maj are h"'
members of the intercolleslate ofs"ni-
zaton ~tfarN"fu mas J'ii." -
citation, but its representative let II nc
known that ms INSTITUTION Nouiu ~
he bound by the new loo'"dli i"ieH' a.
though 1t would IT'S ''Su'"
ton of other MINOR Sports.
a letter was read from baNiu sur
Jordan, president OF l1eiahd Ht""i"i"
university statihS that the american
game had beeh a~pahuohc" 'hH' ~
that the IhgllSh INuEp9 E"i"' "t"
been found SATISFACTORY nov o"' ~
the students nut tle sPe''d'ois'
West Point submitted q SET VI 'u9"
buttons when calleo LOT Il I""'o''
change IN playing rules' pu' 'hes' VIZ"
other resolutions were substitutes 'N
the n Offered by MI nan,
1t became apparent 'hat ''c l"iHvt
colleges were IN FAVOR Oh tne prrs.",
playing rules perhaps IN Il mouilleu
form, ana that the shaller lhs'i'"',u,s
were violently opposed To thehi' nv
representative OF nearly every INSULT
Won VI nisheI l'"i'7
York and san Francisco mace al" "o-
dress and many offered mo'lohs 'tat
would. limit the danger Oh the .p'eseh'
games. These ollerlhee necah'' s"
confused that ii"ilS iesoi''''" wa"
adopted as a compromise
Representatives rom '"Ineh "nu
othcf INSTITUTIONS not oire''iS iVP'N
sented IN the assocl'tl"h' susEeH'er
mat rules mlnlihi%lnE ~
the sport would ne a'ceP'"ple, u Vac
the concersus OF opinion Uh't !"
rules regulating mass pays ~ ~
running tackle, otherW'sc NnuN" ~
the flying tackle ana piaEliS 'nlo"Sn
the line would ave 10 De ~puno"i'e
The representatives Oh nuHnpei y
larsc coileEes cNPicse"
not only IN FAVOR Oh ti's put ,'hNe -
me threat NAT 'hcF """'"
ADOPT Il Hiouiiie" i",m "'"'" w.
draw from thc ass"ci"'ioH'
'lllcerS ., '"e "
erected as luil""'' W..
captain ialni't =. 49,
Polht, president II 49,
.n'Nersl'' = ~ ~tfh We.