The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-26
FOOTBALL RULES
AGAIN DISCUSSED
Committee Fails to Reach
Definite Understanding.
FORWARD PASS TO STAY
SOIOns Hold All Day Session In New
York and VIII Try to Clean Up
To-day-Four Period Plan Not in
FavOr-COach Stage Tells of Ex-
periments in the south.

New York March 25.-The Official foot
ball refOrmers, the same comprising the
American intercollegiate Football Rules
Committee, were in session for hours at
the Hotel Cumberland to-day and, with
a fun quota, again wrestling with the big
question as to how the rules should oe
changed, so as to make the game less
dangerous and yet keep it a good game.
There was a morning and afternoon
session, and after adjournment for the
day. Secretary Hall announced that the
committee had advanced far enough IN
the work in reconstruction 10 take final
vote on any of the suggested changes
Whether the committee completes its
work at this session is doubtful II II
does it will have to crowd lot Of work
in to-mOrrow's proceedings, but with that
end in view. the legislators viii rush
from an early breakfast in the morning
and convene again at $50 o'clock.
The committee as it assembled to-day
was composed of L. NJ. Dennis, Cornell,
chairman; E. X Hall, Dartmouth. seere-
tary; Walter Camp, Yale: Crawford
Blagden. Harvard; John c. Bell, Pennsyl-
vania. and Or. Carl Williams, in the
afternoon, Lieut.. BerTen, Navy; H H.
Hackett, representing West Point; A. 4
stage. University Of Chicago; ]. a. Bah
bitt. Haverford W. A Lambeth, Univer-
sitv Of Virginia: C. W Savage. ObeTlin;
DR. H. [. Williams, University Of Mime
sofa, and w. L. Dudley Vanderbilt
University.
other Football NotabIes.
Other football figures of note in the
corridors were Lieut.. Nelly. West Point;
H. d. Wheaton, Yale; Bill Roper, the
best coach Princeton ever had; Melville
Webb, jr.; George Herbert Daley, the
golf cup winner, and Frank O'Connell,
the sage Of Herald Square.
Comforting words from Mr.. Hall re-
gardtng progress in stimulating the tTOu-
blesome patient to new life We're: We
We're getting nearer" Yet Mr.. Hall was
obliged to deal in generalities in answer
10 questions as TO what had been done.
I'VE discussed all sorts of possible
changes. and while no final vote was
taken on anything. there were votes with
the idea of getting at the sense of the
star points. One thing we had in view
was to see whether there We're certain
questions which we could eliminate from
further consideration. 1t Is possible that
with a long session tomorrow we shall
get through and another possibility is
that we shall ind we can't get through
and adjourn early for a later meeting
Several of the committeeman say they
can't get away for a third meeting. so
to-day"
During the afternoon session the com,
mittee sent out for a blackboard and
plenty Of chalk, and formations were dis.
cUssed by means OF diagrams. The days
discussions hinged largely around the
forward pass, whether or not it should
be retained. and what bearing 1t would
have on the new game if retained. 1t is
said the West is for the retention of the
forward pass. while there IS a strong
feeling in the East against it. but on that
score all hands were noncommittal One
Eastern member did say, however, that
the forward pass, in some form or other,
would be retained
Stage Tells of Experiments.
Stage made a verbal report on his ex-
periments in the South with proposed
changes, and the committee, according
10 a delegate, felt that his work had not
been in vain Asked If anybody was in
favor of aboushing the forward pass,
Mr. Hall replied:
Il don't recall that it was discussed
on that basis. A general policy and
fundamentals were discussed rather than
details"
There were no new suggestions since
the last meeting, and the grouped sug-
gestions from the former meeting were
not discussed as groups, but more to the
best from them as whole
Lieut. Nelly. Of West Point, expressed
the opinion in the morning that the sug-
gested four-period plan would not add
10 the attractiveness OF the game. 1t
was his belief that the first period would