The sun., 1910-01-31
FOOTBALL RULES MEETING.
First 60 at the Game TO he Had This
Week Here.

The football rules committee meets iT
this city next Friday and Saturday to ma "
1 its first go at the task Of reforming the rule
| Of the game, so that many colleges nov
hostile may be won around to letting il b'
I PLAYED another sea son. The members ol
| the committee. who are fourteen, have
had consultations and meetings in theil
respective neighborhoods and they nav,
piled up mass Of information and sug'
Restion. These things will have to be rec
onciled wherever they disa gree, and har.
monizing them probably will take up some
| time.
Princeton's ideas on what should he done
TO football meet with the approval OF many
followers OF the game. man who has
played football in a big college said yester-
day. "Princetch's suggestions show that
the Jerseymen have a proper sense OF what
the public wants. They realize evidently
that the college faculties and the parents
mean business and that trihinR. technical
changes won't do. The things that the
Princetonians aim to reform are the things
that have made football dangerous and
in spots uninteresting.
The growth OF interference is one Of the
points which mark the difference between
the American game and the Rugby from
which IL grew. IL appears to most folks
that the Princeton Suggestion which limits
interference so that helping Ia done away
with will remove come OF the dangers
The enforced backield arrangement
OF the players on the attacking side before
scrimmaRing, ken together with the limiteS
interference, will make the contact les q
crushing, although perhaps no less power
nn, he ne s one nee or v.n ,~0 men dnssrGeep.2n G & S
because by the other alterations proposed
! by Princeton the secondary defence will be
able 20 resume its old place close TO the line
There Ia a pretty general feeling q that the
forward pass as at present on the books
/ hAap Vnta anht tau MI
some folks who say the rule makers, or some
! OF them. felt instinctively in 1905 that the
| but that they put it in just to satisfy the
| public demand for something in the way
| OF open play In football | cannot COM
thing to the game, but IL IL were the case
IL would be well for rhe rules committee
men to act this yeer as better attorneys for
The public. which knows only the re-
suits it seeks TO attain. has left the ARA n ge-
these results to the foot ball committeeman
| BY this time believe most OF the mem beTs
OF the rules committee have worked them
| selves out OF the frame OF mind that the cry
| gainst football is due entirely to sensa- :
tional eXaggeration.
AZ least one man out in the middle West
we're responsible for it ALL Such men re-
fuse TO recognize that there Is anything TO
cause the public is not able to come 20 these
men equipped With all the technical terms OF
the game and 70 point out specifically what
thing aside and say The people don't
| know what they're holierin' for -
The delay In accepting the football sched-
uIe at the University OF Chicago pending z
action by the rules committee Is a case in
point OF what has been said about the seri-
BUSINESS with which educators view the
condition. of the game. Chica go since !.
was founded in 1892 has had football and ha =
| been represented In all sorts Of other sports
besides. It Is likely TO be regarded As
| significant when a University Of this sort
! holds up the football schedule to see what
! football in 1910 Is going to be like.