The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27

1NcW 1OIht OepItIlDST 1O.-1niS W0Ch will see the new football rules brought out for public inspection for the first time at most big collegiate centers of the country. The University of Penn sylvania led the way on Saturday in her game with Ursinus, which resulted in an unexpected defeat for Pennsyl- vania. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cor nell, Dartmouth, Brown, West Point. and Annapolis, the football leaders in the east, will all play their opening games this week and it is safe to say that in each game the chief point Of interest to coaches players and spec tators alike will be the use of the and spectacular game.
 Yale, completing two weeks prac- tice in elementary work at Lakeville Conn.,, on Tuesday, will be back on Yale field Wednesday for her open ing game with the Wesleyan eleven. She will use the new football cautious ly in accordance with the crafty Yale system of perfecting new plays in practice before exhibiting them to the public eye. Wesleyan, however. prom ises to open up the game with new formations and may force Yale to ex- hibit the possibilities of revised foot ball, at least on the defensive side.
 All Open Saturday
 The programme Wednesday also in- cludes a game at Philadelphia between Pennsylvania and Dickinson. The Car lisle Indians who defeated Villa Nova on Saturday in game which did lit tie to justify the claims of the reform CTS for their latest revision will try conclusions Wednesday with Mullen burg.
 From the spectators viewpoint the best game of the week will be at New Haven on Saturday. Yale has Syra- cuse for her opponent and Syracuse is no mean foe. Several times she has brought the wearers of the blue so close to defeat that there was little joy in the Yale camp and the Syra- cuse game has come to be regarded in New Haven as one of the near" big ones of the season.
 Harvard will open the season on Saturday with Bates; Princeton will try conclusions with Stevens; Cornell will play Renssealear, and Dartmouth will play Massachusetts State. The other eastern games scheduled for Sat urday are:
 University of Pennsylvania-Getty burg at Philadelphia.
 Carlisle Western Maryland at Car lisle.
 Brown Norwich at Providence.
 Navy-St. Johns at Annapolis.
 Army -Bowdoin at West Point.
 Uncertainty Is Pronounced
 In all the camps there Is still feel ing of uncertainty regarding the man. ner in which the new rules will work out in actual contests between well matched teams. The most radical changes are the rules preventing pull ing and pushing of the runner and in terference with the man eligibleN to receive the forward pass. The con- sensus of opinion among the experts is that the days of tandems and oth CT mass plays is past and coaches will be compelled to abandon good many of the formations which have hereto fore been relied on. especially by the big teams, as sure ground gathers in pinch. The new rules place pre- mium on speed and agility and call for more trick plays, more strategy and more quick thinking. End runs will be more profitable and the for ward pass VIII De more TeSouTCelul play, although not much less treach- erous than 1t was found last year.
 An increase in variety and yersatil- ity is promised. The preliminary work of most of the big elevens has been devoted to development of offense and little scientific work with the defense has been attempted. It remains to be seen whether a consistent, connected, two-sided game will result.
 That the spectator will be the gain CT from the revision Is conceded. Whether the play is through the line, around the end or from the front on a forward pass or on-side kick, the watcher can follow the ball in a way that was impossible under the old, rules.
 Many Surprises Coming
 The defeat of Pennsylvania by Ur- sinus Saturday is not the only indi- cation that the new rules will de- velop many surprises.
 Many coaches believe that the of- fensive side will have large advan- tage over the defense, while 1t is gen. orally conceded that heavy men will be less valuable than before and that a premium will be placed on speedy men, even though they be light of weight
 One prominent expert is quoted as declaring that under the new rules he can develop an offensive play that no team can stop and that out of ordinary football material he can develop a team xubio, io ,,ro ctfroJ1x, corfat,, fn uroro