Arizona republican., 1910-11-08

is a separate feature of the game and
 not connected or correlated with Oth-
 CT playing systems. The committee | simply. has ruled that hereafter no player shall tackle an opponent with
 out having at the time at least one foot upon the ground. It was the
 mass-play and the forward pass that
 occupied the committee for seven days and a large part of the intervening nights.
 Princeton, with the University of Chicago, proposed as remedy for
 massed interference an extension of
 Rule XVII, so as to require seven
 men of the offensive side to stand up-
 on the line of scrimmage and to pro-
 hibit players of this side from aiding
 the man carrying the ball or one an-
 other by hands, arms or body either
 in pushing or pulling, thus eliminat-
 ing the familiar spectacle of twenty
 years standing of a player being
 whirled through the line. After pro-
 longed debate and considerable ex-
 perimentation this proposition was adopted. This radical change means
 the return of that style of game which
 characterized the late sos. The
 rush line will probably play a widely extended line this fall and the man
 with the ball at all times will be in full view of the spectators.
 It was obvious to the committee that this drastic change would reduce the offensive strength of the game more than half and that it was incum-
 bent to restore in some way the equil- ibrium of the game which must main- tain at all times so far as the rules are concerned a fair struggle between the offense and the defense and thus prevent scOreless or heavy scoring games This condition the committee met by removing the restriction upon the forward pass and the quarter back | run which hitherto has required each | of these plays to be executed five ! yards distant from the center The | effect of the second of these changes | means the disappearance of the posi- | tion of quarterb back since under the | new rules any back may carry the | ball through the line at any point up- on a snap direct from center. If the | quarter back goes, the present method | of snapping the ball will go. Snap ping the ball is defined under the rules as putting the ball in play by a continuous motion of the hand or foot" Since the quarterback will be found this fall in the line or group 0f backs 1t is certain that the coach Ing genius of the country will devise l better way of sending the ball back ' rom center than the present method which has existed for thirty one years This change means a fast. open and 'unning game in which the premium 10 longer will be pjlaced upon players If gigantic bulk, but in which the deal man will be player of middle weight, fleet of foot and keen of hind. It means the return of the eautiful passes. of the sos when each nan as he was tackled passed the all to an associate for a further ad- s ance
 In the matter of the forward pass z he committee faced q difficult prob g nm indeed. The injurious effects of his play in the last three years have cen two fold. First. it has subjected ne players recovering the pass to iolent personal collisions and seoond. forcing the secondary defense to lay at least ten yards behind the .. ne or scrimmage to protect the for ss ard pass zone has brought upon the v unsupported tackles the dangerous h