The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-10
COMING ON SIERRA To
COACH FOOTBALL TEAM
Austin Jones Will Train COLLEGE
of Hawaii Boys Under
New Rules.

Austin Jones, who is to coach the
football team of the College of Hawaii.
Is expected back from the Coast on the
steamer Sierra which is due here next
Friday. The team have already receiv-
ed their new uniforms which Jones
selected for them in the States and as
soon as their coach arrives the team
viii start training. The football play
ers Of the college have been studying
the new rules which We're formulated
this year so that they just need 10 put
them INTO practise TO get familiar with
them. There are many changes, but
with the exception Of one Or two radical
departures, the 1910 game will be very
similar to that OF 1909.
The most noticeable changes from a
spectator S point of view are the fact
! that the field once more takes on the
appearance of a gridiron. abandoning
| Its checker board marking, and that
| there VIII be four periods instead of
| two halves. The first change IS due to
the fact that the forward pass can go
! over the line of scrImmage al any point
and that the man with the ball can adj
| vance in any direction. The division
of the game into four periods of -
minutes, replacing the former halves,
viii seem strange at first. but 1t Will
only be a short time before the spec
! tator becomes as used to the periods
as to the halves.
| The game Will start as heretofore, the
| captain winning the toss choosing goal
| or kickoff At the end of the first and
third periods the ball will be placed in
the corresponding place on the opposite
| side Of the center to that at which It
was downed when the whistle blew 81
| nifying the end of those periods. The
| time between these periods will be three
minutes and between the second and
! third it will be ten minutes. Starting
third period the side kicking off has the
| option OF kicking off or receiving the
kick.
] The new rules which will govern the
| forward pass are expected not only TO
! take away the element of personal
danger evident last year, but to make t
a more finished play. The ball cannot
now be passed unless the player is at
| least five wards behind the line of scrlm-
mage. and no player can be interfered
! with il any way after he has passed
the line of scrimmage and before he has
| gone more than 30 yards. This will
prevent the bowling over of players I'M
| able to protect themselves and will
make il COMPULSORY TO try TO catch the
| ball The reduction of the penalty for
an incompleted pass will also tend TO
make il more popular play
f.! With the exception of the forward
rosc tho defensive r1loS are practically
the same as in the old game.
The fact that pulling and hauling wall
not be allowed in the new game and
the requiring of seven men in the line
of scrimmage ut all times have materl-
ally weakened the Offense to all outward
appearances: but the new rules have
also made changes which are expected
! materially to make up for these losses
The offense has gained one man through
the fact that the PLAYER who receives
| the ball can advance with 1t at once II
any direction. The fact that the forwarr
pass can 90 over the line Of scrlmmagf
AT any point should also help the OF
Tense materially.
That the modifying committee had 9
difficult task on its hands IS very ey1
dent. \ close study of the new rules
will also show that they have worked
hard in an effort to eliminate all the oh
ipctionable features Of the 1909 game
without materially affecting its system
of NAV. and while il VIII take the sc
+ua1 nIaving of this falls games Il
show how successful they have been II
This direction. II would seem as II tn
rules would prove satisfactory to every