The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
DR. LAMBETH TO
GIVE HIS VIEWS.
Leaves This Week to Attend
Meeting of Football Rules
Committee.
MAKES "A PREDICTION
Believes Years Will Pass Before
Virginia Enters Game on
Former Scale.
MAKES "A PREDIc ION

/ III. w IllIdHl "a. l1aIHDelH, professor
| of hygiene at the University Of vir-
| ginia, and member of the football
rules committee. Will leave Char1ottes-
| Vile early this week for New York to
attend the meeting of the committee
called for February and 4, to con-
slider changes in the rules governing
the game
After the close OF the football season
last fall Dr. Lambeth was the first
to suggest that the game should con-
sist of quarters instead OF halves"
with five minutes rest between each
quarter, the entire game to be no.
longer than now. Despite the fact
that this modification in the rules has
already been accepted by the Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
and will be put in force by the coll
leges comprising the Eastern Associa-
ton of Virginia. DIR. Lambeth does
not think that 1t Will be adopted by
the intercollegiate rules committee.
He infers this much from brief con-
vcrsation he had with Walter Camp
in New York during the Christmas
| holidays
/ DIR. Iambeth's Views.
| Yale. Princeton and Harvard--in
| fact. none of the big universities of the
! North-have had players badly injured
as the result of exhaustion. In other
/ words. case similar to that of Cadet
| Bryne and Archer Christian has not
occurred at these big colleges, and
the matter has not been brought home
as 1t has at West Point and at vir.
GINA. The argment is made that thu
medical supervision is such. that the
men are physically fit for a grueiine
contest, and will not fall victims tc
4 exhaustion.
/ Injuries and fatalities in football are
attributable in the main to the fact
that the injured or killed player In
4 each instance was physically tired out.
4 and no longer had any physical re-
serve force. To sustain this theory.
I! he marshals statistics and the history
4 of contests to show that the injuries
or the fatalities occur during the last
. part of the game.
Perhaps no football enthusiast Is
\ more pessimstic over the future out
!, Lambeth. In his opinion 1t will be
three or four years before the game
. will again come into its own at the
University. The death of Archer
J. Christian was a blow from which II
,, will take him long time to recover
outlines the Schedule.
DO you think for an instance said
he, that l would ask man to play
Il the game without his having secured
permission from his parents. II 1 had
a son I would want him to play foot
, ball, and would be disappointed If he
did not take up the game, but would
!, not ask him to play. If the game Is
played at all at Virginia next fall the
schedule will be an exceedingly modes,
one There will only be one trip away
from the university, and that will BIZ
!, for the annual contest with the Uni
yersity of North Carolina.
"of course. IL Georgetown should
I revive the game. as now seems prob
able. because of the sincerity whtct
a is being shown by the Intercollegiate
rules committee in revising the game
the usual game will be played II
\ washington with the Blue and TIL,
Gray.
! "other dates will be with st. John
j (of Annapolis). Davidson. Virginia NIL
$ |iitary Institute, washington ana 8 lie
!, 1.-The the Eastern Association, insludinl
. Randolph Macon. Richmond College
William and Mary and Hampden-S ! q
ney. Such n schedule VIII be on
Iot ~ ~
/, 'eS : Two ~" Men Left.
Although DR.. Lambeth hopes tina
his prediction for an unsuccessful sea
. son for 1910 will prove him 2, I falls s
, / the fact thai Captain Bowen an
POP cisyer viii I be g,,t ths o n,I sont
Atlantic end for two years, and Cecil
Of the tackles will tb Be hack Rack, y
men this is the last. year of colles
life.
Forrest G. Stanton, the most bri
liant backfield man developed In tl
South III recent Years. will return. I
his home In California to enter tn
real estate business with his fathe
Quarterback Goocll has PLACED his fou
Harris. guards, will probably be Q
the team. Hopes can we'll be placed
Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Tod
land other substitutes who showed u
SO we'll last fall. sa
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