Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-27

quired the vanquished TO deliver their
banners to the victors.
THE REPATRIATION.
The reformation of the crude game
OF their time into modern rugby has
been duly accredited to William Webb
Ellis. a schoolboy genius at Rugby 90
years ago. From this time to the pres
ent day football has been divided into
two leading styles of games, the first
In which the ball only may be kicked
and the second In which the ball may
be kicked but also mav be carried.
The devotees Of the first Of these two
games held a convention Dec. 1, 1868.
at the Freemasons' tavern In Great
Queen street, London. at which
reformation was effected in existing
rules and an organization formed un-
der the name Of the London Football
association Hence the game devised
upon this occasion. in which carrying
the ball is prohibited. has since been
known as the association game The
words soccer" and "socker." by
which IL Is also called rro W"rel''
derivatives Of the word association"
Jan. 90. 1871. the advocates Of tho
carrying principle In the second OF
these two games assembled at the Pail
Mall restaurant I'm Regent street, Lon
don and formed an organization I'M
der the name Of the Rugby Football
union. adopting the rules Of the Rug
by school as their playing code Five
Years later. or to- he precise. Nov. 10.
1875. Harvard. Princeton and Vale
held convention I'm the old Massasoit
house AT Springfield. Mass and formed
the intercollegiate Football associa-
ton. adopting the Rugby union rules.
This code has been subjected almost
annually since that time TO minor mod
ihcations and periodically # has come
up for complete overhauling and rad
icaI reform
THE FLYING TACKLE.
The dangers Of the flying tackle were
not difficult to remove. since II was
possible 10 remove the flying tackle it.
self without any effort whatever upon
any other play. as tackling IL q separ-
ate feature Of the game and not con-
nected or correlated with other play
ing systems. The committee simply
has ruled that hereafter no player
shall tackle an opponent without hav-
ing n { the time at least one foot upon
the ground IT was the mass Piav and
the forward pass that occupied the
committee for seven days and large
part OF the intervening nights
Princeton. with the University OF
Chicago. proposed as a remedy for
massed Interference an extension OF
Rule XVII So as to require seven men
line OF scrimmage and to prohibit
players of this side from aiding the
man carrying the ball or one another
by hands arms or body. either IN
pushing or pulling, thus eliminating
the familiar spectacle OF 90 years
standing Of player being whirled
through the line. This proposition
was adopted This radical change
out Of bounds. were equivalent to a
means the return OF that style Of game
which characterized the late eighties.
II was obvious 70 the committee that
this drastic change would reduce the
offensive strength OF the game moro
than half. and that II WAS incumbent
20 restore In some way the equilibrium
~ the game.whlch must maintain at all
times 50 far as the rules are concerned
p fair struggle between the offenFe and
the defense and thus proven; scovc-
less OF heavily scoring games. This
condition the committee met by remov-
ing the restriction upon the forward
nass and the quarter hack run which
hitherto has required each Of these
plays 10 he executed ive yards distant
from the center The effect Of the sec
ond Of these changes means the dlsap-