The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-26
K.H.S. PLAYERS
TO STUDY CODE.
Many Changes in Football Rules WIN
Make it Necessary for Them to
Plunge Into New Guide
This Fall.
COACH IS IN QUESTION
Departure Of BeIknap Leaves Purple
and White Without instructor
What Critics Say of the
Changes.

Recent changes in the football
rules have been widely discussed, in
fact almost as much this wear az
when drastic steps were taken to
eliminate the brutality Of the game
by introducing the forward pass,
which made play Of much more bril-
lance. Keokuk high school students
have thus far had little opportunity
OF familiarizing themselves with the
changes and no study of the new
code is expected until school COM
mences. Who is to coach the purple
and white team is also a matter that
has not yet been decided
One of the important changes is
the division of halves, there now be-
ing four periods of play. In college
football heretofore there has been
seventy minutes of play, which was
divided into two equal periods. Now
leach of the four periods will be fif-
| teen minutes In length. But in high
!. school play the length of halves has
been twenty or twenty-five minutes,
and whether the younger student will
want to travel the longer route is
question.
Helping the Little Fellows.
In the midst of the general con-
demnation OF the new football rules,
the critics of the game make an ex-
ception in the matter of rules which
provide three-minute rest in the
middle of each half. The only voice
to be lifted so far in protest against
this division of the fighting period is
that of Jim Wear, the clever little
former Yale quarterback. Wear is a
good official and has several en-
gagements to officiate in big western
games during the coming fall.
Here is the way he views what
most experts say will prove a life
saving clause:
The three minute rests will oper-
ate to the detriment Of strong teams
and in favor of the weak. Elevens of
great power and endurance, built to
stand the gait of hard grind and
long punishment, will lose the bene-
fit of such physical advantages. The
fast, light team which might play
rings around the slower, heavier
team in flashes, but which could not
stand the full-half grind, under the
rules of last year, will have it's best
q opportunity this season.
While in some respects it may be
a good thing to help along the little
fellows, it's rather unjust to the big
teams to deprive them in measure
of their chief source of strength
ability to down the foe. In every
physical contest endurance plays a
part-or should. In football, especial
ly, one of the main things heretofore
asked of a player was ghmeness and
lasting powers. Under the new condi-
ton part of the necessity for these
will in measure be wiped out For
the three minutes in the middle of
/ each period, and the rule which per-
mits men withdrawn in the first half
from exhaustion to return in the sec
ond period, will keep virtually fresh
team in the field.
Il look for the lesser elevens to
make better comparative showing
under the changed conditions"
Science VS.. Beet.
After all, If the beef trust teams
can't fit into the requirements of
champions in speed and strategy as
we'll as in sheer strength, don't they
rather deserve to be legislated
against, instead Of fostered, as Mr..
Wear hints ought to be done? The
light, fast team really affords much
better football, than the ponderous
Juggernaut which uses the steam
roller effect in getting from one end
of the field to the other. Any element
that puts it up to elevens to win on
speed and skill can't be far from the
mark. It's the rules that change the
playing conditions that will play
havoc with the game this year.
What Drake Man Says.
Coach John G. Griffith of Drake
university, formerly coach at Morn
ingside College, Sioux City, does not
believe that the revised football
rules will lessen the danger of acct
dents. He is quoted in Des Moines
as follows:
The new rules in my opinion will
not lessen accidents said Mr.. Crit
fifth, but will put premium on In
dividual playing and will make the
forward pass doubly popular with the
. coaches.
For the game itself I would much
rather have the old style football, but
from spectators standpoint, think
the new game will be more popular
1t will do away with team work ant
will make 1t possible for couple O
stars to hold their own against al
entire team.
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