The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-29
RULES
ARE MODIFIED

New Pork, Dec 2S.-The Intcrcol-
legiat5 Athletic association adopted
and submitted TO its rules committee,
a resolution calling for a modification
OF the football playing rules TO re-
duce the injury to contestants to a
minimum.
The resolution was introduced by
Prof Z. K. Hall OF Dartmouth. adopt
ed after three hours of acrimonious
discussion, follows:
That the football rules committee
of this association be instructed 10
use every possible endeavor to bring
about such a modification of the rules
as in their judgment shall tend to re-
duce TO a minimum the danger OF
physical injury to players and at the
same time retain as FAR as possible.
the most desirable and wholesome
features OF the game.
Only three votes were registered
sSainst the resolution, but nearly
every college IN ,he ives, as some
thing TO say concerning IT.
Prof a. \. SJagg OF the University
OF Chicago, made a motion, that would
prohibit all officials of a football
game. including umpires, referees and
participants from talking to news
paper man after the game. Stagg
app5aied strongly saying that he had
been grossly misqUoted at times but
the convention defeated the motion
by anoyerwhelming vote,
The revision of the game was or.
dercd. it Is understood, with due con
sideTatiCn Of Yale. Princeton. Penn
sylvania. Cornell and a few other in
stitutons that are not members Of
the interc, llegiate organization Har-
ward has joined the association but It's
rcpl&a, ntatlye let 1t be known
!talyard has joined the association
but It's representative let II be known
that his institution would not be
bound b, the new football rules of the
association, although 1t would recog-
nlze It's regulation of other minor
sports A letter was read from David
Starr Jordan. president OF Leland
Stanford university stating that the
American game had been abandoned
there. and that the English rugby
game has been found satisfactory not
only 20 the students but to the spec
tatoTS.
West Point submitted a set of reso
lutions which called Tor a radical
change In the playing rules, but these
with other resolutions were submit
ted for the resolution of Hall of Dart
mouth.
II became apparent that the larger
colleges were IN favor of the present
playing rules, perhaps in a modified
form and that smaller institutions
were violently opposed to them. The
Of at,in N cI
tuition of higher learning between
New York and San Francisco made an
address. and many offered motions
that would limit the danger of the
present football game
These offerings became so confused
that Halls resolution was adopted as
a compromise
Representatives from Cornell and
other institutions not directly repre-
sented III the association suggested
that rules minimizing the dangers of
the sport would be acceptable. 1t
was the concenSus OF opinion that
rules regulating mass plays and the
running tackle, otherwise known as
the flying table, and playing through
the line, would have to be abandoned
Representatives of a number of large
colleges expressed themselves not on
" IN view OF this but conveyed the
threat that they would either adopt
modified form OF football OF would
withdraw from the association.
Officers were elected as follows;
Captain Palmer Z. Pierce, L. s. NJ.
A, West Point president; Dr.. r. T.
Mckenzie. University of Pennsylvania
vice president; P. w Nicholson Wes-
leyan, secretary and treasurer
Executive committee-PTof. +. w
Marvel. Brown university; w ~
Golden, Pennsylvania State college.
A. II. Pearson, University of North
Carolina; c. w. Savage, Oberlln.
Ohio; s. w. Boyer. Iowa State col
Iege and C. w. Hetherington, Uni
versity of Missouri.
The rules comittee which viii un-
dertake the task OF bringing about a
revision follows.
Dr. II. F. Williams, Minnesota. DR..
James 4. Babbtt. Haverford. Pa Z.
X. Hail. Dartmouth; Lieut. II. B.
Hackett. U. S. A., West Point; Prof
C. w. Savage, Obcrlin, o.; Prof, l..
w Dudley, Vanderbilt and DR. w. a.
Lambeth, University OF Pennsylvania.