The Washington herald., 1910-01-24
Football Authority May
Come Here This Week.
TO HAVE NEW RULES TRIALS
High School Teams WIZ BE in Ac-
ton Saturday Important Confer
ence of Coaches Called for TO-mOr-
row to Determine What Changes
VIII he Tried-Other sport Gossip.
by WILLIAM PEET.

meeting has been called for Tuesday
afternoon, when four prominent football
coaches Of the District high schools and
Jack Gass, the well-known referee. will
hold a conference for the purpose Of dis
cussing changes in the football rules for
a safer and saner game, to be tried out
here next Saturday.
An invitation has been extended to
Walter Camp, and if his business affairs
viii permit ii is hoped he can be present
when the experiments are tried. In case
the great football authority cannot come
20 Washington. it is expected that he
VIII send by mail a few suggestions.
which, of course, win be tried out by the
local coaches.
It was originally proposed 20 have
teams from Central, Western, Business.
Technical. and the National Cathedral
School on the field in uniform and IN
charge Of the various coaches, but a
different scheme viii DO tried. With so
many teams on the feld, confusion would
be sure to follow, and the present plan
is 10 have a team from Technical and
one from the National CaNnedraI School
in toys. while me other players and
those interested in the sport can look on
from the side lines
Coach Hecox, of Technical. and Coach
Greene. OF the National Cathedral
School, are willing TO give their teams
a little preliminary instruction. so that
when the experiments are tried there will
be no hitch or misunderstanding
The trouble with Western. Business
and Central lies in the fact that at all
these schools the majority OF the foot
bah players are out working hard for
the track teams and playing basketball
while at Tech the majority OF last sea-
son's championship eleven is available
and Coach Greene, at the National Cathe-
draI School, is not going in for track
athletics this season.
Those who witness the experiments will
be disappointed If they expect 10 see q
real football game pulled of. No hard
playing viii be permitted, and whatever
Bcrfmmaging is attempted viii be in the
nature of mild exercise.
Just what new plays viii be tried can
not be determined until Coaches Kirby,
Hecox. Byrd. Greene, and Peet hold a
conference Tuesday afternoon.
The following communication explains
how one amateur baseball fan feels about
the local situation:
The Washington amateur baseball In
oubator is working overtime, and some
interesting plans for the coming season
are already in the process OF Matching.
The recent action Of the amateur COM
mission in declaring that no ball tosser
would be allowed to play with more than
one club is generally commended. but the
curiously inclined are asking. What is
going TO become of this ediot should the
managers OF any one league get together
and decide contrary 70 the commission? p
''The latter might say that the games
where this rule was disregarded are TO
count against the offending club, but sup
pose the league managers became dis
courteous 20 the commission and decided
70 allow the game to stand? II the COM
mission could secure absolute control Of
the grounds the problem might be solved
by refusing 40 allow obstreperoug clubs 20
use them So far as the Departmental
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an effort will be made to make the rule
regarding eligibility of players uniform
Last year one OF the new clubs was com
PEELED to submit TO an arbitrary ruling
OF the managers 6hst any player on this
particular team had TO be employed in the
department for a period OF six months
preceding the opening Of the season. This
practically shut of all opportunity this
club might have had for Strengthening
The manager Of the club thus discrimi-
mated against viii make determined ef-
fort 70 have his team placed on an even
footing with the other fellows this season.
1T is argued. with much reason, that
team should not be deprived of the
chance to bolster Up it's forces by placing
good men and good bail players to work
'sin the departmental Service. 1t frequently
occurs that opportunity Is given to en-
Dloy young men OF value to the DEPART
ments. who. at the same time. would add
considerable strength TO the club By
this means better baseball results. worthy
men are given employment, and the serv-
ice is improved