The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-19
Football Rules
Little Changed
Penalty For Incomplete Forward
Pass Amended in Favor OF
Offending Team

with the advent of the football
season and the announcement ina
nearly all the larger colleges VIII
have an excellent chance to work VI
5. a strong team because of the number
of playens of past years experlencs
fncll1ded in the lineup, the greater
interest is. being shown in the change:
in the rules to govern the game
These changes are for the most par
of a minor nature. and accepted a:
much Improvement over the revised
rules of 1910.
Perhaps the most important rule
This wear is that affecting the penalt,
for an incomplete forward pass. Las
wear a misfire of forward pass caus
ed the penalty to be measured from
the place in which the man stood
while attempting to make the pass
This year the penalty is taken from
the place of the previous down, mean,
ing that the offending team gains
several yards through the change as
the man attempting the pass always
stands from two to eight yards to the
rear of the line.
Another change, intended to short
en- the game, is that of the intermis.
sions between the first and SECOND
and third and fourth periods. For
merly the intermission was three
minutes but 1t has been changed to
one which will be appreciated by potn
players and spectators on a wind
swept field on a cold day. The other
changes this year are all OF minor
nature and simply made to make the
rules more clear of constructlon ane
to lessen the trials or the players anu
officials.
The coming season really begins
with the contest between Holy Cross,
worcester and New Hampshire State
College, Durham. which takes place
In worcester on Sept. %. The Car
lisle Indians also play on that date.
The season at Yale opens on the
fwentv-seventh, with Wesleyan fur
nishing the first practice for the
wearers of, the blue, and Holy Cross
win play there on Sept. go HARVARD
plays Bates on the thirtieth and be-
fore the end of the present month the
season will have been inaugurated In
all the colleges
4 The real serious part of the season,
however, begins on Oct. FL, when La
meets Annapolis. Pennsylvania meets
Brown and Yale meets West Point.
The following Saturday, the twenty
eirhth. the Carlisle Indians meet La
fayette, Harvard meets Brown, Mich
igan and Vanderbilt meet. The Feat
ures Of this years schedule making,
however. is the game between Prince
ton and Harvard. which will mark the
.resuming Of football relations between
the two colleges broken on several
years ago. J.,
Thanksgiving. there will be an in
creasing number of games of deep
interest to the followers of the game
with the Yale-Harvard game coming
on the. twenty-fifth. The last game
of the season of Importance will be
between the Army and Navy, the Sat
fr>1Jrrxvfru Thu nk sewing
Taken all in all. neither in the east
or west will there be a game SO much
worth seeeing as the Harvard ale
contest This year the game will rep-
resent unusual features standing as y
will for the best of two kinds OF
coaching. At Yale, John Field, the
strong short-necked determined fight
.er, who will always linger in the
hearts of Yale graduates as the ner-
West man in the Harvard game of
1910, the battered bruised chap who
would not admit defeat even when
carried OF the field, will be head
coach and with him at the head of
things there will be little of the dis
sension that rocked and almost
wrecked the footbsll progress at Yale
last year. Back of the head coach
at Yale must always be considered
her best friend. the savior who came
to the rescue last year, Walter Camp.
Opposed to Field and Camp in the
most important game OF the season
will be Coach Percy Haughton OF
father of the open game, the cool
tactful coach, who has the entire stu
dent body of Harvard behind him,
heart and soul, and who has brought
Yale steadily nearer and nearer the
consistent margin of defeat - first
with a victory, than with bare de-
feat. and then with tie game In
which ELS demon of determination
and the fighting qualities of men like
Field triumphed evenly with all the
legitimate promises Of fact
When Yale and Harvard line up this
year for the kick-off, each having
started with great promise. Harvard
probably with the greater promise, a
football game greater than the one
last year will be about to start, the
highest Implication of what is most
desired in football, a contest worth
travelling from antipodes to see.
Yale and Princeton, two ancient
eridirion foes, have called out their
football squads and "Wednesday the
first light was practised at New Ha-
s se,tur rnu Of the initial Yale practice
was the presence of Sully and Paul,
two excellent tackles. Tackles, by
the way bear about the same relation
to a football team that hinges do to
a door, From as tar back as any
one CdH LIZ 6ohiO nos
swung upon the tackles, and they are
as important now as they ever were.
A coach who begins season with
two veteran tackles has much to be
thankful for. 1t means that he can
begin building up his attack at
much earlier date than If he had to
break in new men. Yale's advan-
taee at the start will be apparent if
one stops to realize that the open
game is practically already in hand
with Capt. Howe, one of the best
auarterbacks the game has ever seen.
Two veteran tackles and Bomeisler,
an experienced end. who did not get
into the big games last year because
of injury. Certainly the framework
for team at New Haven is impress
sive.
The Tigers are not 80 comfortably
situated. The Orange and Black has
\ captain who has conditions to re-
move. always handicap for a lead
sr. and none too many first class vet
erans. Princetonians always rejoice
when they find a lot of fast backs
md there is every indication that the
oackfield this year will be among the
best, with Pendleton, last years star,
and Vaughan, new man, who is said
to be a great halfback. However,
the Tigers will have to provide better
protection for the runner than they
did last year, or the star backs will
not make much of an impression in
the big games.