New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-26
TRY NEW FOOTBALL RULES
This Weeks Games viii Show
Efforts to Eliminate Danger.
PLACE PREMIUM ON SPEED
Trick Plays, Strategy and Qufck
Thinking of More Importance
This Season.

This week will see the new football ruies
brought out for public inspection for tne
first time at most of the big collegiate root
ball centres of the country.
The University of Pennsylvania led the
way on Saturday in her game WIN UT
sinus which resulted in an unexpected De
feat for Pennsylvania.
Yale. Harvard. Princeton. Cornell. Dart
mouth. Brown. West Point and AnnapoilS'
the football leaders in the East. VIII all
play their opening games this week
IT is safe to say that In each game the
chief point Of interest to coaches. PLAYERS
and spectators alike will he the use or the
rules committees latest effort at a safe
and spectacular game.
Yale. completing two weeks season OF
elementary practice at Lakevilie, Conn, on
Tuesday. will be back on Yale Field on
Wednesday for her opening game with the
Wesleyan eleven.
She will use the new football cautiously.
In accordance with the crafty Yale system
of perfecting new plays in practice before
exhibiting them to the public eye
WESLEYAN however. promises to open up
the game with new formations and may
force Yale to exhibit the possibilities of
revised football. at least on the defensive
side
The programme for Wednesday also In
cludes a game at Philadelphia between
Pennsylvania anxious to retrieve last
weeks defeat, and Dickinson
The Carlisle Indians who defeated VII
lanova on Saturday in a game which did
little to justify the claims of the reform
ers for their latest revision. will try con-
illusions on Wednesday with Muhlenberg.
From the spectators point of view, the
best game of the week will be at New
Haven on Saturday. Yale has Syracuse
for her opponent and Syracuse is no mean
foe.
Several times she has brought the wear
ers of the blue so close to defeat that there
was little joy in the Yale camp, and the
Syracuse game has come TO be regarded in
New Haven as one of the near big ones OF
the season. This year it comes little
earlier than usual
Harvard will open the season on
Wednesday with Bates, and will play
Bowdoin on Saturday; Princeton will try
conclusions with Stevens; Cornell will play
Rensselaer, and Dartmouth will play Mas
sachusetts State.
The other Eastern games scheduled for
Saturday are: University of Pennsylvania
Gettysburg, at Philadelphia; Carllsle-West-
ern Maryland. at Carlisle; Brown-Norwich,
at Providence, and Navy-St- Johns, at An
napolis.
In all the camps there is still feeling
of uncertainty regarding the manner in
which the new rules will work out in &C
tual contests between we'll matched teams
The most radical changes are the rules
preventing pulling and pushing Of the
runners and interference with the man
eligible TO receive the forward pass
The consensus of opinion among the ex-
perts is that the day of tandems and other
big mass plays is past, and coaches Will
be compelled to abandon a good many OF
the formations which have heretofore been
relied on-especiany by the big teams
as sure ground gamers in a pinch.
The new rules place a premium on
speed and agility, and call for more trick
plays, more strategy and more quick
thinking End runs will be more profit
able and the forward pass will be more
resourceful play. although not much less
treaCherous than it was found last year.