The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-22

Football players representing colleges
and preparatory schools are hard al worl
preparing for the fall campaign.
Already many or the coaches have rae
their proteges tossing tho pigskin around
and getting acquainted with the possioil-
tiles of the new rules,
This year football enthusiasts will wit
ness another change in the popular col
lege sport, which will nc as different aa
the style of game played In the early eos
was 10 the game played from 1905 10
1909.
When the rules committee accomplished
what ii thought was Its purpose OF elm
mating The principal danger elements OF
the game the rules were found TO be so
changed 10 make an entirely different
game OF football
There are not few who have followed
the game ever since It took a hold on the
public that believe the danger cement
never Will be eliminated until The forwa d
pass is abolished Even Walter Camp.
the dean OF American college football, mas
gone record as making This statement,
and IL is true that as long as defensive
players arc allowed TO intercept forward
passes. injuries are bound to Tesui., saws
Walter II. Eckersall in the Chicago Trlb-
une.
The committee tried to overcome this
feature Of play by adopting rIle which
states that 10 player of the defensive
side shall in any way interfere with an
offensive player who is in the act OF re-
celvins forward pass. or course. this
namely. body checking" player while
nc is out of position to protect himself
when III the act OF catching the ball.
Eut rhe rules make no provisions about
mis- safety after tho catch is made. Foot
ball players know and realize that IL is
JUS, as easy TO ipjure a player by u hard.
driving tackle as II is 10 body check
an opponent. After this years expert
encc with the play the committee is al
most sure 10 strike an amendment which
will make the play more safe.
Another alteration in the rules which
football fans will have 10 get accustomed
20 IL tho division Of the game into four
quarters OF fifteen minutes duration. in
stead of the old re gime OF two halves OF
thrty-fiNe minutes each. This change
was adopted for the purpose OF lcsscning
the physical strain on The players. AT
!, the same time this clause was adopted
the committee also decided that any
player who left the game in one quarter
might rcturn In the next.
The latter rule is sure 10 have a more
important result than is apparent on the
face OF IT.
IL IS sung TO lerinit If specialization
# players 10 sch an extent that large
scores arc sure To be the order of the
day. Players will be Sroomed TO kick
= ais from the field. line plungers with
oped, players with ability TO throw the
ball accurately and swiftly will be
brought out while end runners and those
with faculties to make drives off the
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times when their special abilities are
needed.
In this way games are sure 10 be de-
cided by the ability Of one man more
than by the great essential which char
actcrized The game ever since il has
been pin ycd-ns mely team work.
a player now can go into the game.
kick goal from the field. retire. and
wnii for another opportunity 10 appear
In the next quarter In this manner
teaIns will take the field at the begin
ming Of each quarter with their line