The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-26
FANS PIONEERING
NEW RULES
Consensus of Opinion Ap-
pears to Be That Football
Will Be a Tame Game.

Changes in football rules for the
coming season have been announced
as follows:
1.-The time of play is divided into
four periods of fifteen minutes each
instead of two thirty-five minute
halves.
THE usual intermission of fifteen
minutes is maintained between the
second and third period, but an in
Permission of three minutes only is
allowed between the first and second
and third and fourth periods.
During this short intermission no
player will be allowed to leave the
field, nor will anyone, save the train
er, be permitted to come onto the
field.
''At the beginning of the second
and fourth periods, the teams change
goals, but the down, the relative spot
of the down, the possession of the
ball and the distance to be gained
remain as they were at the conclusion
of the preceding period.
THE flying tackle has been entire
ly eliminated by a new ruling that
provides that a player must have at
least one foot on the ground when
tackling.
This years rules provide that a
player is qualified to receive for
ward pass only when at least one
yard back of his own line of scrim-
mage or occupies the position on one
end of the line.
mo man may make forward pass
or kick the ball unless he is five
yards back of the line of scrimmage.
THE territory forward of the line
of scrimmage and consequently in
the enemy's camp is adjudged neutral
for a distance of twenty yards pend
ing the completion of a forward pass
or kick.
A forward pass is not legal if the
| ball crosses a line twenty yards in
advance of the spot where it was put
in play, before touching the ground
or player.
I'm the case of kick, the players
on the defense within the twenty
yard zone must not interfere with
the ends or other players until their
opponents have advanced twenty
yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
"Interlocked interference, that is,
players of the side having the ball
taking hold of each other, or using
their hands or arms to grasp their
teammates in any way, is forbidden,
and it is also forbidden for any man
on the side having possession of the
ball, to push or pull in the man run
ming with the ball.
Another innovation is to be noted
in regard to the substitution of play
ers during a game. A new rule pro-
| vides that player who has been re-
moved for any cause except disquali-
| fication or suspension may be re-
turned to the game once at the be-
ginning of any subsequent period.
"The longitudinal lines formerly
marking the field are done away with
as the quarterback may now cross
the line of scrimmage at any point"
AS usual, fans are widely divided
as to the advantages and disadvant-
ages of the new rules but it is gen
orally agreed that the rules commit
tee, particularly in the case of elimi-
mating flying tackles and establishing
a neutral zone of twenty yards about
the line of scrimmage, have striven
for the individual safety of the play
err. Whether or no the neutral zone
will prove an advantage must be left
for practical demonstration. 1t will,
however, evidently make for the open
style of game It's establishment this
year is an entire innovation.
The change of goals four times
during the game is regarded as an ad-
vantageous feature; but the division
of the game into quarters instead of
halves is not received with general
approval. 1t is believed that the
quarter feature will rob the game of
| its intensity of interest by giving 1t
a choppy effect.
The rule allowing players once
taken out to return to the game later
is one which has long been sought
after, particularly in smaller schools
| where available substitute material
is more or less scarce.
The elimination of the flying tackle
is generally approved. While this
play in it's best practice has been one
of the prettiest of the game, 1T has
also proven to be one Of the most
dangerous.
The greatest objection TO the new
rules is made on the provisions for
the forward pass. Under these 1t
will be seen that the length OF the