The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-01
D|SGUSTED WITH
FOOTBALL RULES
Eastern Coaches Make Sug-
gestions as to Changes in
Playing

f1!nCetOns ~. y. Ice. 4'-f1Sdo
ward. and william ". Roper Of Prince
ton. with Yale's famous line coach,
g. Foster Sanford, are disguised with
the existing rules. Coach Sanford
says.
II advocate a committee on rules
not to exceed five men, who owe no
pecuniary allegiance to n univer-
sity. and who shall take their posi-
tons with the full knowledge and de-
termination to do what's right with
out regard to ~uneducated public opin-
ion or faculty whims.
II think that when the rules COM.
mittee first began to rule they made
a vital error with talk Of unnecessary
roughness. The game Is as rough as
ever, with the chances for severe in
Jury much favoring the present
game"
Coach Haughton has :his to say:
"College professors and an unedu-
vision of the rules. and football pro-
gressive got It's most serious setback.
I prefer the old game. This new
game isn't logical. and I don't like it.
It Is. however, better than no game
at all. Saturdays. contest was the
best illustration I have seen Of where
the rules have ruined football"
Saturdays game at Cambridge and
Philadelphia for the second year in
succession show the ineficiency Of the
new rules governing football. Prince
ton won the championship by avoid
ing new football tactics. The army
navy game showed little football ex-
cept kicking. Dalton. being one of the
best punters and ,place kickers in the
country, carried the day for the team.
Yale and Harvard 'abbled with all the
wrinkles of the new game, forward
passes. onside kicks. but had to resort
to kicking. Neither team being capable
at field goals. the result was a no.
Ing becomes very monotonous to the
Changed Complexion Of Game.
1t has entirely changed the complex.
ion Of Americans.1ootball.
The punt, wash't originally put into
the game as a feature play, but as q
last resort Then the bali could be car
ried no further by the players. Under
me present rules the kick is the main
ten yards in three downs. there ia
nothing to do but kick, kick, kick.
The game has become a kicking
contest between two men. The other
ten players on each team simply pro-
tect the kicker md have no essential
part in rushing the ball. In most Of
the seasons big games all efforts at
advancing the ball by carrying It have
tailed. Touchdowns are becoming
more frequent.
In the old days itw as the smash
ing drives through the line or the
elusive gallops around the end and
down the field which electrified the
crowd. It's different now, for at
Cambridge on Saturday the crowd
shrew itself into a frenzy Of joy in the
second period Of the game when Yale
to make a first down. That's
ball.
Both the army and navy teams had
developed an attack which they hoped
could be used with success. but he
chance never came for them to rush
the ball over the goal line, to march
down the field. yard by yard, in the
good old fashioned way.
So with the many tie games and no.
score games. football men nave come
change should be made in The rules,
SO that teams will have a chance Of
getting across each others goal lines
once In a while. This years meeting ~
the rules committee. which takes place
In New York some time in February.
promises to be rather lively.
rom Shevlin.. n of the Yale
coaches. thinks that a team should
be given four chances to gain ten
yards. He argues that now thew
really have but two chances, for. after
the second. when the distance ia not
gained. the only thing to do is to kick.
Shevlin also thinks that one man
should be allowed to help the runner
aIong. Under the present rules a
aye cant keep his feet running
every step he takes. If he Could have
one player to help him keep his feet.
thinks it would help a lot.