The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-29
COMMITTEE ON
RULES NAMED
CHANGE FOOTBALL GAME TO
LESSEN THE DANGER.
Confusion Prevailed at Meeting of
Intercollegiate Athletic Assoc
citation Yesterday.
HAD SUGGESTIONS To MAKE

New York. Dec. 29.-After three
hours of acrimonious discussion the
Intercollegiate Athletic association
adopted and submitted to its rules
committee the following resolution:
"Thet the football rules commit
tee of this association be instructed
to use every possible endeavor 10
bring about such modification OF
the rules as in their judgment shall
tend to reduce to a minimum the
danger OF physical injury to the play
ers and at the same time retain as
far as possible the most desirable
and wholesome features of the
game"
Only three negative votes were
registered against the resolution. but
nearly every college in the west had
something TO say concerning IT,
Stage. of Chicago, strongly urged
a motion which would prohibit all
officials of a football game including
Iumpires and referees, and all other
participants, from talking to news
paper men after the game. Stage az
serted that he had been grossly mis-
quoted at times. The convention de-
feated the motion overwhelmingly.
Revision Of the game is ordered,
| Il is understood, with due considera-
tion of the association Of Yale,
Princeton. Pennsylvania. Cornell and
few other institutions which are
not members OF the Intercollegiate
association.
Harvard has Joined the association
but its representative stated that his
institution would not be bound by
the associations new football rule,
although It would recognize its regu-
lations in other minor sports.
A letter was read from President
Jordan. Of Leland Stanford Univer-
sity stating that the American game
has been abandoned there and the
English Rugby game found satisfac-
tory to the students and spectators.
West Point submitted resolutions
calling for a radical change in the
rules, but these with other resolu-
tons were substituted by the reso-
luton adopted.
I It was apparent that the larger
colleges are in favor of the present
rules. perhaps in modified form. and
the smaller Institutions violently OPP
pose them. A representative of near
ly every institution of higher learn
ing between New York and san Fran
cisco made an address and many Of
fered motions which would limit the
danger of football. These offerings
became so confused that the resolu-
ton proposed by Hall. of Dartmouth
was adopted as a compromise.
It was the concensus of opinion
that the rules regulating mass-play
and the flying tackle. and playing
through the line. will have to be
done away with. Representatives OF
40 number of the larger colleges no.
only favored this, but threatened
that they would either adopt a mod
flied form of football or withdraw
from the association.
Officers of the association were
elected as follows:
Captain Palmer e. Pierce, West
Point. president; DIR. r. T. McKen-
zie. Pennsylvania, vice president;
Prof. II. w. Nicholson, Wesleyan
Conn. secretary-treasurer.
Executive committee: Professors
F. w. Marvel, Brown university; w
n. Golden. PENNSYLVANIA State col
lege: A. II. Patterson, University Of
North Carolina; C. w. Savage. ODER
lin; S. w. Boyer, Iowa State college
C. w. Hetherington, University @.
Missouri.
Rules committee: DR.. F. II. Will
liams. Minnesota; DR.. James A. Bah
bitt, Haverford, Pa; f. X. Hall,
Dartmouth; Lieut.. II. b. Beckett
West Point; Prof. c. w. Savage,
oberlln; Prof. w. L. Dudley. Wander
bilt; DIR. w. A. Lambeth. University