Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-29
RADICAL CHANGES
FOOTBALL
ROUGH PLAY WILL BE PARTIAL
~ ELIMINATED IF RULES
ARE FOLLOWED.
Expected That Injuries Will Be Con-
fined to Minimum Under the New
Regulations - Stage Would Cut
Out Talking to Reporters But Mo-
ton Was Lost.

New YORK, Dec. 2S.-Ile INTERIOR
legiate athletic association adopted
and submitted to it's rules committee
tonight resolution calling for mod
ification of the football playing rules
whereby the injury to contestants
may be confined to minimum.
This is the resolution as introduced
by Prof. E. K. Hall of Dartmouth
and adopted after three hours of &C.
rimonious discussion:
"That the football rules COM
mittee of this association be in
structed to use every possible en-
deavor to bring about such
modification of the rules as in
their judgment shall tend to re-
duce to a minimum the danger
of physical injury to the players
and at the same time, retain as
far as may be possible the most
desirable and wholesome feat
ures of the game"
Only three negative votes were reg
istered against the resolution but
nearly every college in the west had
something to say concerning it.
Prof. Stage of the University of
Chicago made a motion which would
prohibit all officials of a football
game, including umpires, referees
and all other participants from talk
ing to newspaper men after the game.
Stage made strong appeal for this
motion, saying that he had been
grossly misquoted at times; but the
convention defeated the motion by an
overwhelming vote.
The revision Of the game was Or
dered, it is understood, with due con-
sideration of the association of Yale,
Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell and
few other institutions which are
not members of the intercollegiate
organization, Harvard has Joined the
association but its representative let
it be known that his institution
would not be bound by the new foot
ball rules of the association, al
though it would recognize it's regu.
lation of other minor sports.
West Point submitted set of res
olutions which called for a radical
change in the playing rules but these
with other resolutions were substt
tuted by the resolution offered by
Mr.. Hall of Dartmouth.
1t became apparent that the larger
colleges were in favor of the present
playing rules, perhaps in modified
form, and that the smaller institu-
lions were violently opposed to them.
The representative of nearly every
institution of higher learning be-
tween New York and San Francisco
made an address and many offered
motions which would limit the dan
ger of the present football game.
These offerings became so confus-
9 that Halls resolution was adopted
as compromise.
1t was the consensus Of opinion that
the rules regulating mass play and
the running tackle otherwise known
as the flying tackle, and playing
through the line would have to be
done away with.
The representatives of number of
large colleges expressed themselves
not only in favor of this, but convey
ed the threat that they would either
adopt a modified form Of football or
would withdraw from the association.
The rules committee, which will I'M
dertake the task of bringing about a
revision is as follows:
DR.. H. F. Williams, Minnesota; DR..
James A. Rabbit, Haverford, Pa; e.
X. Hall, Dartmouth; Lieut.. H. B.
Hackett, U. S. A., West Point; Prof.
c. w. Savage, Oberlin, Ohio; Prof.
w. L. Dudley, Vanderbilt, and DR.. w.
A. Lambeth, University Of Pennsyl.
vania.