The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS
To Sc Discussed This Week 10y College
Representative.

Football. baseball. basketball. track ash
le'ics and III" proper control OF intercol-
eglate contests are subjects to b. con-
sid"red NJ the annual meeting in New York
this week OF ,be intercollegiate Athletic
Association. or the National Intercolle xiate
Association. as At viii, he known hereafter
So far a. interest in the doinrs Of this Young
organization Is concerned IL IL only few
years old-it centres chiefly IN the express
sions OF opinion regarding the new foot
ball rules Appointing representatives
yearly to the football rules COMMITTEES.
which holds its winter meetings later in the
season. - about the most important thing
the Intercolies iare Athletic Association
does at pr~sen'. though in due time IL may
attain to ssis vide sphere OF influence which
is its ultimate objective
There are colleges enough in the assoCia-
ton now 10 max. n a very representative
body. and in the printed list OF membe ~
thu name Harvard University j. proudly
displayed a' the top. There are forty
two active members. but still without the
fold and showing no desire TO enter are
Yale. Prince'on. Cornell. the United states
Naval AZ ademy and Michigan.
As to football LEGISLATION there u no such
occasion for reconstruction confronting
tho smalgamated football rules committee
"a there vas wear ago II Is not probable
thar any great changes in the playing rules
will be considered. In the main the new
rules were fairly salts factory the past fall.
that is they worked In a manner indicating
that they needed only a change or two
20 make them a good deal more satisfac-
tory What few changes are needed are
needed badly. but they can be made without
disturbing the main body of the code ar tho
general nature Of the game.
Two points on which n IL felt that CHI ge-
could be mad. 70 tho decided Improvement
of the game are the forward pass and the
four period scheme. careful students Of
football. actnated solely BY dcsir" to inn
prove the game and who have no aNes to
grind. can he found who arc as strong for
the total adjustment Of the forward pass
a. ever. This hybrid feature of football
undoubtedly was one Of the plays that
helped 10 make football such a hodge pod ge
this year. II - haphaysrd play at the best.
and one IN which the element % skill * en-
tlreiy too microscopic a. compared wit n the
elenrent OF luck. An occasional SELF con
-,itu'ed authority comes 90 its defence " it'll
reasons WHICH are not con Win cinx. declar-
ing that most Of those who are opD~ @ed TO
the forward pass are so opposed because OF
selfish reasons.
A. 10 that the same reason might he ad-
vanccd TO account for being in favor Of tho
forward pass. IN" fact - II Is nothing
more than a boomerang. hit or miss play.
snd without virtue save a. freski-h spec
tac,ilar appeal. Its reten ton initiates
against what would b~ more spectacular
and q great deal more productive OF skill
A. we'll a. in keeping with real football.
namely RAISING other than the forward
kind Kicking and rushing furnish sufTi-
Gent ways TO advan 90 the ball. and passing
across the field. superior in every way as
an expression Of skill tn the allen trick Of
throwing the ball forward, won't flourish
80 long as the latter football fun gus EXISTS
The four .period plan unauestionably
broke up and slowed up football games 10
a great extent From the spectators point
OF view there was nothing that so tended
10 max" games tame. ~ was hard for any
team to get into ia full swing. knowing
all the tim. that an interruption was close
a. hand The scheme was a dampener on
attack and a beacon Of hope for the weaker
team. the team with the weaker offence,
! rainer- and piayer- of big teams. teams
in proper physical cond'ion. expressed
themselves ~ prrf.rrin1 an uninterrupted
half
n II IL considered advisable tina, some
teams have "a short rest in the middle OF
half the rule could he optional Football
legislation would be- much easier were all
Trans OF the caiibre Of Harvard. Yale.
Princeton. Pennsylvania. Brown and thai
class The trouble ~ they ar.n't. and what
those ran stand some cant stand But
nobody rnn deny that the big battle rhi-
fall would have been more exciting and
more conduciv. 10 superiority, r"aning IN.
reward Ia which II was ~ntitlsd. had not the
70 allow the better eleven to realiy- On ia
gtan ssH