The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
TWILL BE CHANGES | IN FOOTBALL RULES Scoring of Two Teams Is
 To Difficult SOME SUGGESTIONS
SUGGESTIONS
Experts Are Busy Picking All-Amer- ican Stars-Pendleton Will Make Good Captain-Baseball Play
 CTS Once Knew Pigskin Game
By WALTER MARcHAND

 season have made it certain that some important changes will be made in the rules before the opening of the next sea \ son. It is one thing to have the rules so s that they will make the play open and interesting and give the smaller teams q chance to do business, but 1t is alto z gether another tribe of Indians to have r the rules so that scoring by superior E football as between teams at all evenly [ matched is next to an impossbility.
 The scores of Yale-Harvard, Yale | Princeton, Harvard-P Princeton, Army < Navy, Princeton Dartmouth and score of others games during the season shows ] that the rules need revision. | There are few if any men in football today who have made a closer study or the game than Tom Shevlin of Yaie. He is firmly convinced that football as bplayed now needs rule changing, ana ne thinks just two changes are needed. IL may be that the changes he advocates + will be presented to the rules committee Ii when that body convenes in the winter Hand thev may get considerable support, |Vf for there is no little dissatisfaction With Ethe present game, because it doesn't put Ii enough premium offense. He says Is.I'm not strong for game in Which the |steam on the offense plays the hazardous |srame. takes all the risks dhe only error | on which a team can score is one made 'by the other side in possession of the IbalD and can't get anywhere. I'd like . to see a game in which there isn't so much kicking on the second doWh anu in which the rules don't play your de- . .fense for you as they do now"
 Shevln's suggestions for changes are |tbese: First, keep the 10 yards and have Hour downs instead of three; second, nave the four backs on the defense 10 yards De- | |lbind the scrimmage line when the ball | .is mt in pay Those are the only |lchanges needed he says 'tThe present |.same makes too big demand on the in offense and doesn't glVe 1.-the other players enough chance to snow 9wbat they can do Suppose you gain |,seven yards on the first try and none on 1.-the second. Then it's up to the quarter Ilback to find a way to gain on the next and last try, and about the only way out IlSf it for him is to order kick. A team Ilreally has to make it's distance in two lplays, which are not enough.
 ..Four downs, on the other hand, would Illead to the development of constructive Aofsense. Let the rules stay as they are |iabout not helping the runner, but give 1.-the quarterback and the other 10 players La reasonable number of opportunities 10 lsec what they can do in choosing and Hltrying plays so as to give the offense /ifair test This would mean an equitable |fchance in case of the first play being Elmade right and mistake being made Tn Licalling the second, chance which IL Hdoesn't have now, and which would put !. r. |lterback, and give more opportunities to 1.-the other 10 men.
 Let them leave the forward pass in 1T |Ithey want to. It's no good and won't hurt anybody, but keeping the defensive . backs 10 yards back would do to your I'defense-open it up-what the forward Iipass was intended to do.'
 The present occupation of the leading lfootball experts is picking the al-Amer- iican eleven. It is a pleasant occupation, smakes a number of able young gentle srnen very prideful and does no partcu- lar harm I confess I would be pug zled to pick the best American eleven and will not try it. I may later give consensus eleven, after the brave men 1who pick have finished their work.
 The election of Pendleton to captain lPrnceton next team is wise one. Un-
  A.hosen to lead the Tiger warriors, but for |zthe unfortunate fact that he leaves college Shis term Pendleton will do honor to RPrinceton, M
 When men play baseball folks forget fiat they may have once answered a E uarterback' signal and plunged into a. Zine of flesh. moleskin and jersey, in- Xbtead of blowing a. furrow in soft loam Towards a square of bulging hair filled kiucking. Christie Mathewson and Eddie Rollins of the present day big league $tars are also the football stars of base ball They. still tell a story of the won Aerfuf, play Philadelphia's second base 2na n made when he was 'rah rah" at Mhe University of Columbia. Collins &tarred in the Columbia Amherst battle of S05 just as he had starred in world se-
 ies games sine.
 Collins was only sub on the Colum-
 pia varsity that fall, which was coached &,y Bill Morley Collins did not get his Finance nntil the last five minutes, with Khe score standing 10 to in favor of Am
 lerst, win the ball on Columbia's 20 yard
 tne.'
 1T replace Donovan, yelled Eddie to The referee when he dashed out from the ide lines, just as full of pepper as he IS now prancing about second.
 Collins could run in the open field and
 Morley knew 1t. Eddie had orders to call
 i is own signal Donovan had been play Hng quarterback Eddie did.
 H He Was thrown for a loss by the Am Aerst ends.
 The blue and white crowd of Columbia Fose en masse as they saw the streaks If Collins blue and white socks going lrollnd the end he had been thrown by.
 Tive, ten, fifteen, twenty yards he ripped Afr Defore somebody "got" him. Collins
 nal.y, in four plays, took the ball to the
 D ward fine.
 Then Eddie "sacrfied.'' 1T replased Collins yelled fellow Banned Schultz. who had never been in a Varsity game before, although he had
 ieen four years on the squad.
 Schultz yelled his own signal, too. i It was for try at goal from the field.
 lchultz could kick Punk Il sailed over the cross-bar
 rom the spot Collins had carried it to.
 The score was tied and Coumbia's s l
 onor sustained
 There is little doubt that the Carlisle
 hdians have the best offensive team in
 he country. That it has scored points #gafnst every other eleven that it has Met speaks for itself, but that many of HlOse points were made against some of , Ne hestseelevens, teams which are now Asing ranked above it for some uncer-
 Rin reason. certainly goes to indicate
 nat 1t isi the most powerful offensive |
 }achine that has been developed this |
 gar The Indians besides having a quar-
 It of gopd backfleld men, which is able |
 aivante the ball well under almost l
 " condition, have in Thorpe one of .hs |
 OSt a ttclxor y,, ho |