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forward pass this year Whether it is
good foot ball or bad foot ball or not foot
ball, il is in the rules again, and it must
be considered with all the possibilities
which make for it as a part Of foot ball
strategy.
The story is told that foot ball politics
kept the play in the rules. 1t is asserted
that for the first time in the history of the
American college game a rules committee
was swayed by the maneuvers so common
in politics OF A voting for BIS plan If B
will vote for AS system. When the per-
sonnet of the foot BALI rules committee
was changed it was suggested that per-
haps that would be one of the first
changes most in evidence because, with a
bulkier organization and the whims to be
considered of men who had never played
foot ball. and who knew little about the
| fundamentals of the game. there was no
telling how many experiments might be
proposed or how far the members would
go.
There were two fatalities in the foot ball
season of 1909 which were more effective
| than almost all other reasons for bringing
| about this years revision. There were
| other fatalities ascribed to foot ball for
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ncity and growth was more likely to
invite restriction than a sport which
was the pastime of few colleges.
Indeed there were mot few who
failed to realize the growth of foot
ball and there are some to this day
who have no conception of the hold
which the pastime has attained with
young America There is no other
sport in the country, with the excep-
ton of base ball which has such
firm grasp on the boys from fifteen to
twenty years of age
One may liken foot ball and its Amerl-
can career to that of some of our pubic
men In early youth, isolated in their
own immediate neighborhood. they have
been admired by their friends and COM
panions for their good qualities. In later
wears. with vast attainment in letters and
knowledge. they have become the target
for the criticism of a nation. Increasing
popularity not only has gathered them
friends but has created them enemies
No American sport has been obliged 10
undergo so much reconstruction as foot
hall. Its first overhauling was due TO an
e,deavor to get rid of mass play rms
was the outcome of the attack OF TWO
forces moving from two different stand
points but both having common pur-
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Reasons for Attitude.

The smaller colleges attacked the game
because men had seen hurt and killed.
Critics attacked the game not only be-
cause of the injuries which had arisen
In playing it. but for the reason that 1t
had resolved itself into stupidity slow
pushing match
II is to be doubted whether il will ever
be possible to play foot ball without in
Jury. II is certainly never likely to be-
come a game feasible for grammar school
boys, unless the boys are of exceptionally
good physique, and to my mind much OF
the criticism of foot ball is due to the
feet that young boys have tried to play
the game who had no place on the foot
ball field. Some of them who have tried
to play foot ball should have had no
place on any athletic field where violent
eSertion was essential to play perfectly.
In attempting to open the game and at
the same time obviate the possibilities of
injury to players, the committee of rule
makers introduced into the sport at least
one play which is ever likely to be a
bone OF contention. That is the forward
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vance the ball after 1t has once been
checked in progress by the defending
side. The player who has the ball in
his possession must rely upon his in
dividual effort to penetrate the defense,
and when finally stopped through the
efforts of the side not in possession OF
the ball, or because the referee is
satisfied that the progress of the ball
has been stopped within the provision
of the rules, there should not be found
such sights as have been common on
the foot ball field when ten or fifteen
players have slowly disentangled them
selves from a disorganized mass to dis
cover that the player with the ball, who
was beneath all of them, is senseless
from injury or almost pOwerless from
exhaustion.
The abolition of interlocked interior
ence in more ways than one reaches to
the very root of the cancer of unneces-
sary mass play against which critics
and anti-foot ball advocates have
inveighed for years.
individuality of action on the foot ball
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25
PART I.
By John B. Foster.

American foot ball paid the penalty
of popularity by becoming impossible
from the viewpoint of more commune
ties and interests than one. 1t is with
out much question the only one of our
sports which has demanded a recon
struction because of it's unsuitability
to all ages, and a persistence on the
part of all ages to take part in it.
Had it been possible to restrict the
game to those who were its original
progenitors and who, from the game
of rugby devised a sport which was
better adapted to the American tenn
permanent than the English pastime,
with it's less clearly defined character
istics it is within reason to believe
that American colleges would be play
ing much the same game today as was
played ten years ago.
The sport has too much fascination
1t got completely away from the
Older boys and was picked up by the
younger generation They were not
fitted for it physically. Yet in spite
of admonition from parents and teach
ers the smaller boys would play foot
ball, and they would be satisfied with
no other game than that which was
played at Yale. Harvard, Princeton and
poppSylvan
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FORWARD PASS WILL PLAY
IMPORTANT PART IN GAME
It Is Asserted That Foot Ball Politics Kept
the Play in the Rules-Will Have to
Prove Its Worth This Year-ln-
terlocked interference Barred.

, pass 1t is the hobby of certain college
men, but it Is not foot ball play. nor
| is it ever likely to become a foot ball
play. 1t belongs to basket ball, which is
game entirely apart from foot ball, ana
| it is one of the plays of the new foot ball
which were responsible for the revision
of the rules which has been made WITHIN
| the last year.
| 1t was the possibility of the forward
pass which so scattered the line of de-
Tense in the game that the style or dt-
tack was devised to overwhelm ana en-
barrass opposing tackles. and so much
of the play centered around the tackles
that it was only the giants who were
able to stand up under the s'i;i-2-
First Practical Use.
In the first year of Introduction Of the
forward pass, before It's future had been
worked out to any extent, or before any
one had grasped how much of an element
it might be toward the winning of foot
ball games, little was seen of 1t In sat
isfactory way until almost the close OF
the season, when Yale startled the foot
ball world with the long forward passes
which settled in the hands Of Alcott and
went far toward turning the tide In Ia
vor of the Ellis in important games.
The suggestion which was carried In
these plays was so much elaborated an
other year that almost every loot pail
eleven had its system of forward passes
at work at the very beginning OF the sea-
son. Some of them were successful and
some of them were not worth much.
Another season found the forward pass
still in popularity among colleges, because
it was incorporated in the rules, and In
order to make it effective not one coach
but several had devised plays by which
the defending tackle was to be driven
in and overwhelmed, so that passes could
be made in safety while the end was
boxed" or put so far out of play that
he could be of no assistance. This con-
slant wear and tear of heavy lines
against the tackles of elevens constituted
an assault which was too much for one
man to bear. The marvel Is that the
tackles stood up under it so well as they
did In the opinion of more than one the
strain which was put on the tackles who
played in the elevens of 1909 was about as
severe a test as ever foot ball players
were asked to undergo. and personally 1t
seems to me that the tackles of last sea-
son deserve to go on record as No.
for holding up as they did.
Still in the Rules.
II u.ilI mt do anv pood to rebel at the
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tween fifteen and twenty will hnd tnat
one principal source of danger to the poy
carving the ball has been eHmIhaleu.
When the boys find that it is against lhe
rules to do this, and not pai' " - -
hall. desire to win will bring about
speedy reform on their part because they
will not relish being penahzed. W nat 10
true of the boys is also true OF some COZ
lege players who make great pretense
Of heine in every tackle in which seVerai
nlayers are involved, and it seems to
have been a very wise policy 10 nave
incorporated clauses in the fuie Will n.,.
will not only discourage the practlce, Out
will punish it by penalty in every way
A Good Preventive.
Another section of the revised ruies
prohibits the interlocked interference
This too, is a move in the right olrec-
ton, for it preserves individuality OF ac-
ton, which is distinct safeguard against
injury. This section of rule II is so
clear and sane that 1t is worth emphaslz-
ing to impress it fully upon those VINO
shall be members of the elevens OF this
sea son. The section reads:
NO player of the side in possession OF
the ball shall use his hands. arms or BODY
to push, pull or hold upon his feet the
] player carrying the ball, nor snail there
be any interlocked interference. By Inter
of one another by, or encircling the body
to any degree with. the hands or arms by
the players of the side in possession OF
| the ball.
Presume that player of the attacking
| side has the ball in his possession. He is
tackled by a player of the opposing side
| In the past it has been customary for the
players of the side in possession of the
ball to come to the assistance Of the man
with the ball, and even though he be
momentariIy checked, one of his own
team might grasp him, hold him erect
and push or pull him for some distance
| into the territory of the defending side.
| Other players of the attacking side
might join with him, and, with arms
around each other push and pull in
united effort against thes contending side
until the player holding the ball was the
storm center of struggling mass and in
no position to guard and care for HIM
self, since, with the ball in his arms, he
was practically powerless. His sole de-
] pendence against injury resolved itself
almost wholly into the ability OF his own
side to maintain him in an erect posi-
ton. If thrown to the ground he was
| likely to become the bottom figure of a
dangerous pile up.
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subdivision Of the halves is almost inn
perative to give the players a moment
to recuperate.
Our game has not always required the
high pitch of energy that is necessary in
the Canadian game. Some Of the players
have been compelled to work at top speed
and others have not. AS rule the more
important American games have been
steady developments of a system of play
to accomplish certain purpose.
Whether there Is expected to be such
change in foot ball this year that a rest
will be required in the middle of one Of
the halves Of a game / am sure it is
difficult to imagine. 1t would appear that
such might be considered to be the case.
The question as to whether this period
Of rest will work to advantage in the
American game devolves greatly on what
is made out of foot ball in the season at
hand For instance. II a team were MAX
ing slow but certain progress toward the
goal Of an adversary, and it was evident
that the defending team was slowly
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NOTE THIS WELL.

All players of the side in posses
sion of the ball must learn to let
the runner with the ball severely
alone. He is not to be pushed,
pulled, dragged on the ground or
be encircled in the arms of his
teammates and crowded over the
field with the ball in his arms.
This is the year of the individual
in foot ball.
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tOtter and crumble under the assault VI
the attack may have the three-minu!e
respite thrust upon It just long enough 10
recruit its strength and return to the field
in condition to Offset further advance
ment of the ball and to turn back the
advance of it's opponents.
Likely to Be Criticised.
Unauestionably the subdivision Of the
halves was made with much the same
motive in view as were other changes OF
the season-that Is, to render the game
less arduous+ for all ages and CLASSES
which seek to play it-but until IL ao-
iusts itself to the three minutes OF resi- III
the middle Of the half it need occasion no
surprise If the new arrangement Hee''
with some criticism. .s.
If the attacking side is WITHIN nHe Saius
of the goal line when the whistle piow >
for the end of the first quarter, ana ~
when NAV is resumed the defending sue
has regained it's strength ana cohposuLe
to such an extent that 1t Is able 10 pre-.
vent a touchdown from belng mac nare harsh
words now and then for the changes IN
the time divisions
ers may be accustomed to them ana 81
this change, like others wnic Iod nave e, o the
made for the presumable good OF .ie
game. should be accepted as such oy tne
men who are in the sport this year to en-
deayor to the best Of their ability to WORK
out everything satisfactorily.
Back to the Old Field.
Once again it is a gridiron and not
checkerboard. Inasmuch as the man 70
| whom the ball Is snapped may run II
through the scrimmage line at any point
there Is no longer necessity for DIVIDING
tho f,e,d into squares Lines at Intervals
of five yards from end to END Will maAe
the green look q little more famlhar ina"
| it has in recent years. 49,.
To what extent this increase or the
mower of attack will assist the quarter
back is to be learned in the next SIX
weeks. 1t looks very much as IL inc
ha ck field play will become more dlve!si-
| hed and more spectacular than 1t ever has
been. AS a matter of fact. TINS ru nc
makes it possible for every eleven 70
have four active backs at work instead
| of three, and an assistant, as mas peer
| the case in the past. Add to this the IN.
creased value of the forward pass, IN tnat
| It NAV be thrown over the line at any
noint and it will be apparent mat ioui
backs, if they are sufncientiy cieveI. can
ba asa q uise opponent by their adroitness
~. nnaninulating tie ball behind the line.
If team finds itself sufficiently smart
and with good snapperback IT may ieao
I'm TO the point where two-thirds or the
niays will be started at the o-yard me.
If the reading of the rules is Clear ~
that they stipulate that back one var
behind the scrimmage line Is eligible u
receive the forward pass, even the quar-
terback, IL he gets the ball from the
snanperback one yard behind the line,
becomes eligible to take the ball after
he has passed it back to the man VINO Is
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which the game was not responsible.
That has been the case every year. In
making lists of foot ball injuries and
fatalities the best of care is not always
exercised. For instance. 1t is hardly fair
to ascribe the death of player to foot
ball when the player has been warned
never to try to play the game: Such an
observation. A young man, with weak
ened system, was warned not to play
foot ball and not to undertake violent
exercise of any description. He disregard
ed the injunction, played foot ball against
the advice of his physicians and died from
the illness to which he was subject. 1t is
unjust to insist that foot ball was pri-
marily responsible for his death, as base
ball would very likely have produced the
same result
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Regarding Substitutes.

Amy player who has not been disquali-
fed or suspended may be removed from
the game and then returned to It once at
the beginning Of any subsequent period.
That rule will not work well. 1t is
wrong in theory and will be worse in
practice. A time may arrive in game
when a good kicker is needed to score a
point for a team There may be one
PLAYER on an eleven who is a good kicker
and not much of anything else. One
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Likely to Be Criticised.

behind the 5-yard line. There is no end
to the complications which the back field
may make for an adversary, directly the
players have had time to practice and to
work out the rules to their satisfaction.
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Unsuitable for ALI Ages.

Five years ago the writer called at
tention to the fact that the spread of
foot ball would bring its revision.
Some agreed with him. Some did not.
The latter element could not conceive
that a sport which was absorbing the
attention of millions more of persons
than it had in 1889 by it's own pub
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Evils to Be Overcome.

The evils which the present revision of
the rules have endeavored to overcome
are what might be called contributory
causes to injury of light or serious char
acter For example, effort has been made
to do away with the diving tackle-a
dangerous and harmful play. For young
man to launch himself headlong at
running adversary may be thrilling and
heroic, but it is fraught with grave pos
.sibiities. Players have been seen to pre-
cipitate themselves into an onrushing line
as If they were diving from the, ocean
sand into an oncoming breaker. In so
doing they were wholly without protec-
ton to themselves, for the very method
of their plan CT defense left them with
out power to care for their own safety In
a mass of players in steady motion and on
their feet.
The revision Of the rules this year has
also forbidden and penalized the helping
of players who are on the ground. The
committee has defined as crawling any
attempt of the man with the ball to wrlg-
gle ahead after fairly down. 1t was wise
too often is in position where muscles
are contracted or limbs so turned that
joints are likely to be misplaced and
bones broken. An effort has been made
to bring all players to q thorough under
standing of the fact that when the ball is
once down it Is down." and the more
rigidly the officials enforce that doctrine
the less liability there will be of injury to
the player stopped or tackled. and the
quicker the game will be rid of the de-
sire to beat the actual stopping Of the
ball with foot or two of gain by "crawl-
ing' over the surface of the field
It would appear that both of these re-
forms, which have been introduced into
the rules are to result more efficaciously
among the younger players of the game
than their elders.
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Will End These Plays.

The strict enforcement Of this rule
should drive from the game all mass
plays, based on concerted effort to adj
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Youngsters Like to "Pile Up" .

There has always been a temptation
among players in grammar and prepara-
tory schools to ''pile up on the man who
is down with the ball. Everybody who has
had to do with youngsters knows the i'm
pulse of the boy to throw himself into
the heap when there Is general mix-up
on the ground.
No better instance can be cited than the
frolics of crowd of healthy young
Americans in field of newly cut grass or
hay. There may be half dozen heaps
of grass or hay on lawn or field but if
one boy in a spirit of healthy activity
pitches headlong into one of them the
other boys, instead Of pitching into the
other haycocks, will. nine times out of
ten, heap themselves into a squirming
mass on top of the one boy and into the
soft pile in which he first threw himself
In foot ball games among the younger
players this practice has always to be
dealt with. If player is downed with
the ball. first one boy, who has no reason
to become involved in the play, will jump
on the PROSTATE youth to assist in holding
him; then another and another and
have seen even the fullback running the
whole length of the field to throw himself
on top of all, with no more reason for
doing so than that he wanted to show
that he was in the game.
If this fooliShness can be wholly eradi-
Gated among the young players, those
who object to foot ball for the boys be-
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at the very moment when it is about 10
totter and crumble under the assault OF
the attack. may have the three-minute
respite thrust upon 1t just long enough 10
recruit its strength and return to the neid
in condition to Offset further advance
ment Of the ball and to turn back the
advance of its opponents.
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Still in the Rules.

1t will not do any good to rebel at tn
Arizona republican., 1910-07-10
IN AN AEROPLANE.
All Who Have "FIown" Speak Alike
 of the First Sensation.

"All who have had the good fortune to ride in an aCroplane," said one of 'em the other day. unite in their de- scription Oc tieir first sensation. There is no jerk in the starting. though the machine may leap forward with powerful swOOp. Then cOmes-with some-a brief sense of nausea. a feel ing as if the ground were dropping away from beneath
 A slight thrust of the lever lifts the flying machines head, the ground drops away still faster Then, as the aeroplane scars higher. it's occupants eyes adjust themselves to the proper focus. and the surface of the earth be- low seems to be ripping past at rail- way speed
 By this time you have forgotten the clack of the noisy motor. the flap and Whir of the propellers. the grinding of the chain and sprocket gear that drives them. All vibration has practically ceased and you float along with a sence of springy ease and buoyancy such as you can gain from TO other means of lOcOmOtion. That you are flying fast you know only from the roar of the wind in your ears and the slight difficulty you have in filling your lungs with air-the same sensa- ton ono Eosts iJ racing against the wind in an automobile on good high way
 Then comes the first turn The ma chine rises to 1T, taking it's own angle sideways. just as an automobile leans on the banked curve of racing track. You have no sense of leaning sideways. though-no feeling that you must tilt yourself as you do when an automobile turns a corner. for you sit upright. the aeroplane slanting of it's own volition to the necessary angle and slantinS you with it.
 "A glass of water set on the floor of the flyer could be carried round curve after curve and still not lose a drop New York Telegraph
Arizona republican., 1910-07-10
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