The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-24

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However little may have been done
| in reality to the old football game when
! the new code of bylaws were drawn
up by the rules committee, those same
new rules have Disconnected the coach
| es enough to make them admit 1T. The
new rules certainly opened up a host
| of chances for originality in new
| formations and coaches and teams fear
| another may prove cleverer in taking
| the advantages offered. More than
| ever, therefore, the great collegiate
| game will be one for the nimble mind.
Among the louder distress cries in the
| higher circles and which can be taken
| as representative of the anxiety are
| the following:
| New York, Sept. 24.-Reports from
| the various big eastern football camps
| indicate that one of the most difficult
| obstacles in the development of this
! years team will be the unfamiliarity
/ of the coaching stars of former years
| with the new rules. The captains are
| complaining that the coaches that have
SO far put in an appearance have paid
| but little attention to the sweeping
| changes, despite the note of warning
| sent out by the rules committee. Their
| work has consequently been a hin
| drance. The captains and candidates
| have mastered the new rules but the
| coaches have evidently proceeded on
| the theory that the changes could be
| easily mastered and that they needn't
| bother about them. A might schooI
| of coaching for the codcneS probably
| will be established.
| Chicago, Sept. 24.-Reports from the
| western conference schools football
| camps indicate that building blocks
| and little tin soldiers may be expected
to put in an appearance on the prac-
tice fields soon if the A. B. G. methods
Of the coaches continue. Coach Stage
of Chicago found that the sweeping
| changes in the rules make it necessary
to spend as much time with his vet
Grams as with the green material and,
therefore, started kindergarten
school of football. The veterans
knowledge of the old game stood in
their way and Stage now is conducting
a course in nursery football that may
be plaNed in words of one syllable. Re
ports from Michigan, wisconsin, Hi
nois. Iowa, Indiana and other western
schools indicate that their coaches are
using the same tactics.
| New Haven. Conn, Sept. 24.-Yale
| football circles were not little -Wor-
ried today over the absence of Walter
Camp, the we'll known athletic ad-
visor. who left yesterday for an ex-
tended business trip to the Pacific
| coast. He will be gone for the entire
first month of the football season. wen
wishers of Yale depended upon Camp
, to lead the blue football squad through
the maze of the new rules.
! That Denver Cur continues to keep
the side lines of the legitimate football
: field pretty much tracked UP is the
noise from other Colorado schools.
4 Just now the Rocky Mountain confer
ence schools are worked up over Den
: ver's scheduled game with Marquette
university claiming it a breach OF
! conference rules. The Post says:
THAT Denver university may jeop-
ardize it's membership to the Rocky
:, Mountain conference by playing Mar
7 uuette on October IS, is a report
= which comes from Boulder.
q According to the Boulder report,
a D. L. arranged the game with Mar
q quette before the Denver institution
:. had cen admitted to the conferences
: It seems that there is question as
+ to whether or not the Marquette rules
: of eligibility will be acceptable to the
n | conference, and if they are not there
. may be trouble for the local uniVer-
. sitv. Coach KOehler could not De
\ reached this morning, and consequent
n " his side of the matter cannot be
t given.
= "Out at Denver university they are
anxious for game with the Univer-
sity of Colorado. That is, the study
body is asking why the game cannot
y be arranged Coach Koehler and 9th
\ ers high in football circles at the Local
q institution will not discuss the matter
q The matter was mentioned to the
& coach yesterday, but he only smiled
q and changed the subject However
s his attitude indicated that he would
q be very receptive if the proposition
was put to MN by the powers Ina
81 be in football.
Il Football relations were broken of
81 between the Denver university and the
state institution some time ago, the
q authorities of the two universitie:
81 | agreeing that the severance of rela-
q tions would be for the best interests OF
q all concerned.
''This morning The Post called VI
g the head of the coaching staff at the
3 University of Colorado and asked i
s. they would consider game with Den
q yer university
at have nothing to say about thu