The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-29
Conehes Who Would Not Vary Old Style Of Play.
 Plans Discussed

New York. December aS.-Are the pres ent football rules satisfactory? This is one Of the important questions that will be discussed al the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic association. which will be held in this city tomorrow. The widespread agitation at the close of the 19oe season over the terrible toll Of the gridiron had the effect of a dras- tic change in the rules governing the game Rules against mass plays were made and arbitrarily enforced in an eff fort to make the game less dangerous.
 The results, however. have been far from satisfactory When the season closed in November and the football sta tistics were compiled it was found that 21 young men had met their death as a result of the gridiron craze. while the list of injured reached the unprecedented number of 491.
 This showed a decrease from 1909, which the list of injured was double that Of the previous year
 The number of deaths among college men has been particularly large this year in spite of the assertion that men
  are not in great peril.
 Despite this grim toll. 1t is doubtful if the committee in charge of this section will make any radical revision O. the rules. They cannot make many more changes and still retain the exciting fea- lures of the game
 It seems to be the concensus of opinion among the members of the committee that many of the accidents were due to infractions of the rules.
 There have been many charges that the new code was not being enforced by the officials selected and that the stu dents fail to adhere strictly to the letter of the present rules. These charges will form the subject of an exhaustive investi- gation.
 At the coming meeting a question slT will be issued to members. The sheet con tains three questions pertaining to foot ball and two to baseball. They are:
 1. Are the present football rules satis- factory, except for minor changes?
 g. Should coaching be limited 10 mem- bers of the faculty, undergraduates and alumni7
 g. Were the rules of play satisfactori- ly enforced this season?
 Should the members be of the opinion that the rules need revision a football rules committee will be appointed to in- vestigate and make the necessary changes, but should they agree, as 1t IS said they will, that the present rules pro- vide adequate protection for participants fin the game, no change will be made.
 The baseball situation, however, will be the subject of suggestions made by a committee which has been investigating the question in conjunction with the Ath- 1etic Research society and there seems a strong probability that action will be taken to remedy the delinquency implied in the first baseball question:
 Are amateur laws applied to inter collegiate baseball in your locanty?''
 The other query, What is your solu- tion of the summer baseball question? ?? will be the subject of debate and pos sible action on the part of the association Alonzo A. Stagg Is chairman of a com nittee which is considering track ath- ietics their proper control uniform rules for participants, methods of preserving records, etc, which will make report.
 The important proposition will be a pos rible change in the constitution, so as to give representation on the executive con- mittee of local leagues, such as that of the New England states. the Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia league the Ohio Valley and the Southern Inter- collegiate the Missouri valley conference and the Chicago association. It Is though that a change of this nature will foster a greater working interest in the affairs ot the national organization