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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
SOME TIMELY ADVICE.

lines for sharp gains. Some have con-
fused the rule in regard to assisting the
man who is carrying the ball and imagine
that it will curtail line work.
On the contrary, the game is exactly
as it always was in that respect, except
that the runner must not be assisted by
being grabbed, as it were, by his own
teammates. Openings may be made for
him to get through the line. Interference
may be employed to assist him in GETTING
around the line, but the other PLAYERS
must keep their Glands Off his body.
SO far as the actual fact of advancing the
ball is concerned, the runner must act
upon his own individuality.
In the early part of the season it is the
expectation that more running plays will
be employed by coaches than has been
customary in three or four seasons,
Seven men on the Scrimmage line may
mean a strong primary defense, but it
must not be forgotten that the attack
can scatter and still be more effective
than it was in former days, because the
ball can be snapped directly back from
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24

10 De learned in the next six weeks. IL
looKs very much as IL the back field play
WIZ become more diversified and mora
spectacular than it ever has been. as a
matter or fact this rule makes il possib BILE
aol every eleven to have four active backs
a. moIk instead OF three. and an assistant.
| 9" 90 mas peen the case In the past. Add 10
eils the increased value of the forward
p pa' N that II may be thrown over the
AAe a. any point, and 1t will be apparent
mat Tour backs, Ii they are surficientlv
c4sVeF' can battle wise opponent hv their
the line o SAaA 0SAAAu
II team finds itself sufficiently smart
80 au "isn good snapper back it may lead
ny 20 The point where two-thirds of ina
pays wan be started at the five ward
Ahe IL the reauIng OF the rules is claar
~ lhat they stipulate that q back ona
satu Denlnd the scrJmmage line is eligible
- receive a forward pass, even she quar-
Ter Dacks II he gets the TAN from the snap-
pul pacA one yard behind the line, becomes
eilslpIe to take the ball after he has
passed it back to the man VINO Is habIna
the five yard line There Is no end 10 rha
eoIlpheations which the back held may
make Tor an adversary, directly the play
ers nave mad time to practise and to work
OUT the rules to their satisfaction.
Regarding Substitutes.
ANY payer who has not been DISQUALIFIED
or suspended may be removed from the
game and then reLurnea 10 Ii once ~ me
pes.liA.---s o. any subsequent period.
1I4at rule will not Worh Well. At IL wrong
IN theory anu VIII 10 worse In practice.
A time may arrive in a game when a good
kicker is Aeeued TO score a point for a
team, There may be one player on an
eleven who Is u good kicker and not much
o. anything else. one player Is dropped
out or the leanl and the kicker comes in
and does his work. Under the rule he
may be dropped al once tor another man
anu yet le eligible to enter the game
later at the beginning OF a period and
repeat the performance when a perfect
AK IS needed. Tins is specializing play
ers with vengeance. Not even our
baseball rules have gone that far, In spite
OF the fact that they permit substitution.
a substitute may enter the game in base-
ball, bit the player whose position he took
nay not play again.
Another fault about the permission
clause, In regard to substitutes, Is that the
player who goes out for brief rest is
likely to acquire information concerning
the game FROM the side lines. No matter
now faithfully this may be guarded
against, and no matter how unsportsman-
IKE 1t may be, 1t is almost out Of the ques-
ton to believe that EFFORT will not be made
N some way TO impress upon the resting
player the weak points OF the opposing
team: don't believe that the rule will be
FOUND 70 work we'll and 1t will not be sur
prlslng II 1t Is done away with at the end .
" TINS season. 1t Is right enough TO per-
INIT substitutes, but when a man Is out Of 1
the game let him stay ont
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
A Good Preventive.

Another section Of the revised rules pro-
nlpits the interlocked interference. This
too is move in the right direction for !,
preserves individuality of action, which is
a distinct safeguard against injury. This
section Of rule XVII. is SO clear and Sane
that 1t Is worth emphasizing to impress II
fully upon those who shall be members of
the elevens of this season. The section
reads
mo player of the side In possession Of
the ball shall use his hands, arms or body
TO push, pull or hold upon his feet the
player carrying the ball, nor shall there
De any tnterlocked interference. BY inter-
locked interference is meant the grasping
OF one another by. or encircling the body
10 any degree with, the hands or arms by
the players Of the side in possession of the
ball"
Presume that a player OF the attacking
side has the ball in his possession. He ia
tackled by a player of the opposing side.
In the past 1t has been customary for the
players OF the side In possession of the bali
to come to the assistance of the man with
the ball. and even though he be momen-
tarlly checked, one of his own team might
grasp him, hold him erect and push or
pull him for some distance into the terri
tory of the defending side.
Other players of the attacking side might
join with him and with arms around each
other push and pull in united effort against
the contending side until the player hold
ing the ball was the storm centre OF a
struggling mass and in no position to
guard and care for himself. since. with the
ball In his arms. he was practically power
less. His sole dependence against injury
resolved itself almost wholly into the aibIl-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
no .cle 1YG NIZH A4wS.

hand. For instance, If team were MAX
ing slow but certain progress toward the
goal OF an adversary, and 1t was evident
that the defending team was slowly
weakening 1t seems that it may be taken
for granted that the attacking side would
care little for that interposed rest of
three minutes.
The difference Of three minutes for rest
might upset the effort of the first fifteen
minutes The attack might not go right
after the tntermission. Players act witt
unity and tremendous amount of en-
thuslasm, when once they get into the
swing Of their play and anything which
interrupts it is likely to counteract a great
deal or the good that they have done. The
rhythm of their attack may be lost an
tirely in the three minutes of rest. ana
when they take the field again their gan,a
may develop Just enough raggedness to pint
it off color
On the other hand the defending side. at
the very moment when 1t IS about to
totter and crumble under the assault Of
the attack, may have the three minut q
respite thrust upon 1t just long enough to
recruit its strength and return to the field
In condition to Offset further advance
ment of the ball and to turn back the adj
vance OF its opponents
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24

M EKELH bcauSe the rules in football
II have been changed. do not sit de-
jectedly in corner and insist that
football cannot be prayed and no good
come out of the rules because they revo-
lutioniZe some of the theories which have
been held as to the sport.
Football will be played and game will
be evolved from the present rules which
sooner or later will find its advocates and
admirers as previous changes in the fall
sport have found their advocates and adj
mirerS.
The coaches and players who go to
sleep over the new game, or those who
Stubbornly refuse to accept its changes
will be hardest hit at the end of the sea-
son, and negligence on their part in TAX
ing advantage of all that is offered to
them in 1910 may set their teams back to
great disadvantage in 1914
After working through the rules care
fully it would appear that the game which
must first be tried under the new code
will have to deal largely with attempts to
circle the ends and plunge through the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
NOTE THIS WELL.

7Y LII players OF the side in pos
~ session of the ball must learn
to let the runner with the ball
severely alone. He Is not to be
pushed, pulled, dragged on the ground
or be encircled in the arms of his
team mates and crowded over the
field with the ball in his arms. This
is the year of the Individual" in
football.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Will End These Plays.

viii End These Plays.
The strict enforcement of this rule
should drive from the game all mass plays
based on concerted effort to advance
the bali after it has once been checked
In progress by the defending side. The
player who has the ball in his possession
must rely upon his individual effort
to penetrate the defence and when finally
stopped through the efforts of the side not
in possession Of the ball or because the
referee is satisfied that the progress of the
ball has been stopped within the provision
of the rules, there should not be found
such sights as have been common on the
football field when ten or fifteen players
have slowly disentangled themselves from
a disorganized mass to discover that the
player with the ball, who was beneath oil
of them, is senseless from injury or al
most powerless from exhaustion.
Tho abolition of interlocked interfe--
ence in more ways than one reaches to
the very root of the cancer of unnecessary
mass play against which critics and anti
football advocates have inyeighed for
years.
individuality of action on the football
field, SO far as it does away with mass
play, should serve to make the game
brighter, cleaner and more interesting.
Concerted football, in which different in
dividuals play their part in blocking or
eluding the defence. or separating the at
tack, is purely within the strategy of the
game, but concerted football in which
players assemble In masses to advance
the ball by sheer force of strength or
weight resolves itself too much into push
ball. which is foreign to football.
The acme of football strategy is where
one individual matches his brains, speed
and skill against another or against a
of individuals as he meets them
one at q time. but not where the indi-
vidual is compelled to defend himself
against the mass or where the Individual
becomes the centre around which two
masses revolve in conflicting effort one
with the purpose to force the Individual
player forward and the other with the
purpose to force the individual player toll
retreat.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Likely To Be Criticized.

Unquestionably the subdivision of the
halves was made with much the same mo-
tive in view as We're other changes Of the
season-that is. to render the game less
arduous for all ages and classes which
seek to play It, bur until 1T adjusts self
TO the three minutes of rest in the middle
Of the half 1t need occasion no surprise If
the new arrangement meets with some
criticism.
the attacking side is within five wards
OF the goal line when the whistle blows fer
the end Of the first quarter. and IL when
play IS resumed the defending side has re-
gained Its strength and composure to snsh
an extent that it is able to prevent a touoh'
down from being made. rest assured there
VIII pe some rather harsh words now and
then for the changes in the time divisions
It is true that in time all football NAV.
ers may be accustomed toe them ana e.
this change. like others which have haap
made for the presumable good Of tha
game. should be accepted as such by the
men who are in the sport this year to an
deavor to the best of their ability to worl.
out everything satisfactorily.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
First Practical Use.

In the first year of introduction OF the
forward pass, before its future had been
worked out to any extent. or before any
one had grasped how much Of an element
It might be toward the winning of foot
bali games. little was seen OF it in sat
isfactory way until almost the close OF
the season, when Yale startled the foot
ball world with the long forward passes
which settled in the hands OF AIcott and
rent Tar toward turning the tide In favor
ef the Ellis In important games.
The suggestion which was carried in
these plays was SO much elaborated
another year that almost every football
eleven had its system of forward passes
~ work at the very beginning Of the sea-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Individual Effort.

We have team play in baseball. All of
our American athletes can tell what it
is and define 1t, but team play in baseball
invariably depends upon the Individual
and not upon the concentrated physical
effort Of three or four. When we can
fully devise in football team play in which
the individual shall stand out as strongly
as ne does in baseball the great autumn
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Still in the Rules.

SILL III the Rules.
1t viii not do any good to rebel at the
forward pass this year Whether n 20
good football or bad football or NOT foo+-
oaii' 1t is in the rules again, and 1t must
De considered with all the possibilities
which make for it as a part Of football
strategy.
Inc story is told that football po,,+,cs
kept the play in the rules, It Is assar+sa
tii@' Tor the first time in the history of the
american college game a rules COMMITTEES
was swayed by the manoeuyre so comr,o,
in politics Of voting for BIS plan r. p
will vote for AS system. When the nor
sonnet OF the football rules committee va
changed 1t was suggested that nerbars
that would be one of the first changes most
III evidence because, with bulkier organi-
cation and the whims to be considered of
men who had never played football and
who knew little about the fundamentals NJ
the game, there was no telling. how MANY
experiments might be proposed or how far
the members would go.
There were two fatalities in the football
SSdson Oh 1SV5 winch were more enective
than almost all other reasons for bringing
about this years revision. There were
other fatalities ascribed to football for
which the game was not responsible.
That has been the case every year,
In making lists of football injuries andt
the best of care is not always
exercised. For instance, 1t is hardly I
fair to ascrlbe the death Of a player
TO football when the player has been
warned never to try to play the game. /
Such an instance happened under my i'm |,
mediate observation. A young man, with
a weakened system, was warned not to !,
play football and not to undertake violent
exercise of any description. He disregard Il
ed the Injunction, played football against
The advice of his physician and died from
he illness to which he was subject. It is
unjust to insist that football was pri- 1
nariIy responsible for his death, as base
pail would very likely have produced the
same result /
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Back to the Old Field.

Once again It is gridiron ana not i
checker board. Inasmuch as the man to
whom the ball Is snapped may run ,t
through the scrimmage line at any point
there u no longer necessity for dividinrI
the neld into squares. Lines at Intervals
Of five yards from end to end will make thai
green look little more familiar than II
has in recent years
To what extent this increase Of the noxva~
Of attack will assist the quarter bach y
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
What Football Players
. May =
And May Not Do
E'Oe1'y Young athlete Thoroughly to Grasp
1.-the NeeO Game Should Understand as
Explained BelOeC, Why the Rules We're
Completely ReUiSed for the Season of 1910.

son. Some of them were successful and
some Of them were not worth much.
Another season found the forward pass
still in popularity among colleges, because
1t was incorporated in the rules, and in
order to make 1t effective not one coach
but several had devised plays by which
the defending tackle was to be driven
In and overwhelmed. so that passes
could be made in safety while the end
was boxed" or put so far out of play
that he could he of no assistance. This
constant wear and tear OF heavy lines
against the tackles Of eIevens constituted
an assault which was too much for one
man to bear. The marvel is that the
tackles stood up under It SO well as they
did. In the opinion OF more than one tho
strain which was put on the tackles who
played in the elevens of 1909 was about as
severe test as ever football players wero
asked to undergo, and personally It seems
to me that the tackles of last season de-
serve to go on record as A No. / for hold
ing up a IS they did.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Reasons for Attitude.


The smaller colleges attacked the game
because men had been hurt and killed
Critics attacked the game, not only because
Of the injuries which had arisen in plav-
ing II, but for the reason that IL had re-
solved itself into stupidity slow pushing
match.
1t II to be doubted whether it will ever
be possible TO play football without injury
It is certainly never likely to become a
game feasible for grammar school BOYS.
unless the boys are of exceptionally good
physique, and to my mind much of the
criticism of football is due to the fact that
young boys have tried to play the game
who had no place on the football field.
Some OF them who have tried to play foot
bail should have had no place on any ath-
letic field where violent exertion was es-
sential to play perfectly.
In attempting to open the game and at
the same time obviate the possibilities of
makers introduced into the sport at least
one play which is ever likely to be bone
Of contention. That is the forward pass
1t is the hobby of certain college men, but
1t is not football play. nor is 1t ever
likely to become a football play. 1t be-
longs to basketball, which is a game en-
tirely apart from football, and it is one of
the plays of the new football which were
responsible for the revision Of the rules
which has been made within the last year.
1t was the possibility of the forward
pass which so scattered the line Of defence
in the game that the style of attack was
devised to oyerwhelm and embarrass OPP
posing tackles. and SO much of the play
centred around the tackles that 1t was
only the giants who were able to stand
up under the strain.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
Unsuitable for All Ages.

Five years ago the writer called stten.
ton to the fact that the spread Of foot
ball would bring its revision. Some agreed
with him. Some did not. The latter eIe-
ment could not conceive that a snort
which was absorbing the attention OF
millions more Of persons than II had in
1889 by its own publicity and growth vvas
more likely to invite restriction than q
sport which was the pastime of a few col
leges. Indeed, there were not few who
failed to realize the growth of football.
and there are some to this day who have
no conception Of the hold which the pas
time has attained with young America.
There is no other sport in the country.
with the exception of baseball. which has
such Arm grasp on the boys from fifteen
to twenty years Of age.
One may hken football and it's American
career to that of some Of our public men
In early youth, isolated in their own i'm
mediate neighborhood, they have been ad-
mired by their friends and companions for
their good qualities. In later years with
vast attainment in letters and knowledge
they have become the target for the criti-
cism OF nation. Increasing popularity
not only has gathered them friends but
has created them enemies.
No American sport has been Obliged to
undergo so much reconstruction as foot
ball. It's first overhauIing was due to an
endeavor to get rid of mass play. This
was the outcome Of the attack of two
forces moving from two different stand
points but both having a common purpose.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24

ity of his own side to maintain him in an
erect position. If thrown to the ground he
was likely to become the bottom figure of
a dangerous pile up
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
PART I.
By John B. Foster.

" MEXICAN football paid the penalty
~ Of popularity by becoming impos.
sible from the viewpoint of more
communities and interests than one. 1t
Is without much question the only one of
our sports which has demanded a recon
struction because of It's unsuitability to
all ages, and a persistence on the part of
all ages to take part in it.
Had 1t been possible to restrict the
game to those who were its original pro-
genitors and who, from the game of
Rugby, devised sport which was better
adapted to the American temperament
than the English pastime, with it's less
clearly defined characteristics, it is with
In reason to believe that American col
leges would be playing much the same
game to-day as was played ten years ago.
The sport has too much fascination. It
got completely away from the colder
boys" and was picked up by the younger
generation. They were not fitted for it
physically. Yet in spite of admonition
from parents and teachers the smaller
boys would play football, and they would
be satisfied with no other game than that
which was played at Yale, Harvard.
Princeton and PENNSYLVANIA.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-06-02
Farmer Institutes.

The State Board of Agriculture re-
quests all persons who desire to have
a Farmers Institute in their township
or community to make application for
same as soon as possible. The Board
contemplates placing many of the
institutes at new places this year so
as to reach, If possible, some of those
farmers who have not heretofore been
in close touch with this educational
work. It's expected that all speakers
and instructors at Institutes the COM
ing season will be equipped with maps,
charts, photographs, chemicals, and
other apparatus to fully demonstrate
their work. Write for application
blanks upon which to make requests
for one of these meetings.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-06-02
Don't Forget.

Liability to Accident-The risk OF
accidental injury which we all run is
not generally appreciated. Its immen-
sity is evident, however, when we take
glance at the statistics. These show
that more than 1000, 900 persons are
killed or injured in this country every
year, one for at least every seven in
our population. Out of every hundred
deaths six are due to accident. The
loss in wages caused by accidents foots
up the enormous annual total of $780,
O00,O When man knows these
facts, it ought to be plain to him that
his personal margin of safety is not so
large that he cannot afford to neglect
the measure of precaution which he
would be sure to take In the case Of
any other threatened danger.
RObt. ID. Mcclure agent Fidel-
ity and Casualty Co, of New
York. Assets, SO, 100000. Trac-
tiOn Building.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-06-02
Attention Farmers.

The State Board of Agriculture will
again offer liberal prizes for the largest
yield of corn grown upon one acre in
Ohio season of 1910.
Entries are free.
The corn remains the property of
the owner.
Entries close August goth.
Corn to be husked on stalk, between
the first and fifteenth day of Novem.
ber.
Information blanks furnished upon
application.
First prize last year awarded to
grower Of I'D bushels upon one acre.
Eighth prize, "a bushels.
Eight cash prizes given, as follows
$780, $50, $50, $50, $40, $50, $40, $40.
Every up-to-date farmer is asked TO
enter this competition,
It's good thing to try to get up
stairs in your business.