The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-28

, ing to develop an attack, putting more
stress on this than ON defensive tao
tics. It was realized more this year
than over that q team with stiff de-
fense could offset any sort OF ofron-
sive strategy. and tho big teams plao-
ed moro dependence on guarding their
own goal than to drive for the op.
posite one. That this prevailed is
well proved from the fact that
Princeton. team outrushed by Har-
ward. Dartmouth and Yale. won all
three games.
1t may be that too many Of the
coaches who direct the policies of the
leading teams cannot adapt themselves
to present-day needs, for most of them
were brought up in the old school AT
any ratio, from what has been shown,
the selfsame tactics might we'll hayo
been employed ten years ago. The
forward pass, of which so much was
expected, has proved a failure. TO say
that ono succeeded out of every six
tried In important games would be
placing the average fairly HIGH so it
was the same old rushing tactics in
vogue years ago which had to be cali
ed upon as ground gamers.
No one would like to see the for
ward pass go. for 1t is very pretty.
play when 1t Is we'll done. but some
thing is absolutely necessary to make
1t more dependable. The rule-makers
nave not been daring enough to per-
init of two being made in succession
from the Same scrimmage, possibly
because they do not want 10 see the
merican game get to resemble the
English or Canadian game too closely.
II Is hard to see, though, how the
game here could be injured were It
possible to make two passes In sue
cession. 1t certainly would help TO
make the game moro open and spec
tacular, and with the restriction made
at two or three there would be u fine
chance to evolve startling shifts.
Mny Make own Rules.
IL has been suggested many times
mat Yale, Harvard and Princeton go
anead and make their own rules. They
nave long been the leaders III the
sridiron game. and if they did SO It
would not be long before others
would FOLLOW in their footsteps. There
is q chance that they Will do just such
thing, for some of the leading foot
bail lights of these institutions have
expressed their dissatisfaction with the
way the game is going under the
legislation of the present large body
OF rule doctors.
Opinion of some of the men we'll
known in football as to the need OF
change in the code follows:
Walter Camp, ST.. Yale coach-"The
general who can succeed In handling
his attack under the present rules so
as TO make running game succ.
ful is probably thinking somewhere
In the crowd of spectators. At any
rate. no one has succeeded in doing IL
on the field. and Princeton although
lacking i'll ground gaining plays, sa
tight and thus walked away with the
Eastern championship"
G. Foster san. ford, Yale coach-"Isn't
ii good time TO suggest radical
changes in both the rules and the rule
makers? Here are some reasons that
are worth thinking about:
The present rules committee is I'M
wieldly in size. and it is composed of
men most all OF whom owe some sort
OF pecuniary allegiance to some edu-
cational institution. They are sent to
the rules conventions either with In
structions or are measurably con-
strained. The result Is that they clog
the wheels of reason, and the foot
ball world Is served UP the present
hodgepodge"