The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-16
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Another season found the forward
pass still in popularity among colleges,
because 1T was incorporated in the rules,
and in order to make it 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 be of no as
sistance. This constant wear and tear
of heavy lines against the tackles of
eleven constituted an assault which was
too much for one man to bear. The
marvel is that the tackles stood up un-
der it SO well as they did. In the opin-
ion of more than one the strain which
was put on the tackles who played in
the elevens of 1909 was about as severe
a test as ever football players We're
asked to undergo, and personally it
seems to me that the tackles of last
season deserve to go on record as A No.
l for holding up as they did
Still in the Rules.
1t will not do any good to rebel at
the forward pass this year. Whether it
is good football or bad football or not
football, it is in the rules again, and It
must be considered with all the posi-
bilities which make for it as a part of
football strategy
The story is told that football politics
kept the play in the rules. 1t is assert
ed that for the first time IN the history
of the American college game a rules
committee was swayed by the maneu-
vers so common in politics of \ voting
for B s plan if B will vote for A S sys-
TEN. When the personnel of the foot
, ball rules committee was changed it
was suggested that perhaps that would
be one of the first changes most in evil
dence because, with a bulkier organiza-
tion and the whims to be considered
of men who had never played football
and who knew little about the funda-
! mentals of the game, there was no tell
/ ing how many experiments might be
proposed or how far the members would
90.
There were two fatalities in the foot
ball season of 1909 which were more
effective 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
in uries and fatalities the best of care
is not always exercised. For instance,
it IS hardly 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 immediate observation. \
Young man. with a weakened system,
was warned not to play football and
not TO undertake violent exercise of
any description. He disregarded the
/ Injunction. PLAYED football against the
advice of his physicians and died from
the illness to which he was subject. 1t
7 IS unjust TO insist that football was pri-
marilv responsible for his death as
/ baseball would very likely have pro
! duced the same result.
Evils to Be Overcome.
The evils which the present revision
! of the rules have endeavored to over
come are what might be called
contributorv causes to injury of light
or serious character. For example,
effort has been made TO do away with
the diving tackIe--a dangerous and
! harmful play. For a young man
/ to launch himself headloDg at a
running adversary may be thrilling and
heroic. but it is fraught with grave
/ possibilities. Players have been seen
10 precipitate themselves into an on
rushing line as if they were diving from
( the ocean sand into an oncomng break
er. In SO doing they were wholly with
out protection to themselves. for the
very method Of their plan Of defense
left them without power TO care for
heir own safety in a mass of players
IN steady motion and on their feet