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centre to any M Of the hacks. The
first coach to develop a first class centre
who is proficient in shaping back the
ball as we'll at an angle as in a straight
line, and who is equally good in holding
his own in defense, will pave the way for
a system of attack which shall be as d.
versiied as there are men in the back
field, increased four fold by reason of the
changes which may be effected by alter
mating the plays.
Teach every player on the eleven the
cardinal principles of blocking runners
by the use of the body. Teach systems
whereby the man running with the ball
may not only be attended with good in
reference, but may learn to follow his
interference. The backs who are fleet and
agile and who can dodge we'll are apt to
make trouble in the new game.
u~nquestionably there will be a great
use of the forward pass, because it has
been almost placed on a par with punt
ing the ball. The forward pass will be
discussed in the next article and some
thing Of its value estimated.
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goal Of an adversary. and it was eviden,
that the defending team wal slowly
weakening 1t seems that 1t may be taken
for granted that The attacking side would
care little for that %interposed rest OF
three minutes.
The difference Of three minutes for res,
might upset h effort of the first fifteen
minutes. The attack might not go right
after the i~ntermission. Players act with
unity n a tremendous amount Of en-.
thusiasm, when once they get into the
swing of their play. and anything which
Interrupts It is likely to counteract a grea,
deal Of the good that they nave done. The
rhythm Of their attack may be lost en-
tirely in the three minutes Of rest. and
when they take the field again their game
may develop Just enough raggedness to put
1t of color.
On the other hand the defending side, al
the very momen when it is about to
totter and crumble under the assault OF
the attack. may nave the three minute
respite thrust upo {. just long enough to
recruit its strength and return to the field
in condition to Offset further advance
ment Of the ball n to turn back the ad-
vance Of its opponents.
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NOTE THIS WELL.

TLL players Of the side In pos
~ session OF the ball must learn
to let the runner with the ball
severely alone. He 10 not to he
pushed. pulled. dragged on the ground
or be encircled in tho arms Of his
team mates and crowded over the
field with the ball in his arms. This
10 the year Of the '1%ndividual" in
football
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Youngsters Like to "Pile Up"

Their has always been a temptation
among players in grammar and prepare
tory schools to pile up" on the nan who
10 down with the ball. Everybody who has
had to do with youngsters knows tho i'm
pulse of the boy to throw himself into the
heap when there 10 . general mtx-up on
the ground.
No better instance can be cited than the
frolics of a crowd Of healthy young Amer
leans In = field of newly cut grass or hay.
There may be half q dozen heaps Of grass
or a on a lawn or field. but II one boy in
a spirit of healthy activity pitches head
long into one of them the other boys. in.
stead Of pitching int the other haycocks,
Will, nine times out Of ten. heap them.
selves into a squirming mass on TOP Of the
one boy and into the soft pile in which he
first threw himself.
In football games among the younger
players this practice has always to bs
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Likely To Be Criticized.

Unqueshonably the subdivision Of the
halves was mad with much the same mo.
tive in view as were other changes of the
season-that Is, to render the game less
arduous for all ages and classes which
seek to play It. but until 1t adjusts Itself
to the three minutes Of rest in the middle
Of the half 1t need occasion no surprise II
the new arrangement meets with som
criticism.
II the attacking side is within i've yards
OF the goal line when the whistle blows fcY
the end Of the first quarter. and II when
play is resumed the defending side has re-
gained Its strength and composure to such
an extent that It Is able to prevent a touch.
down from being made. rest assured there
will be some rather harsh words now and
then for the changes in the time divisions,
It 10 r U that In time all football play.
ers may be accustomed to them ana So
this change. like others which have beer
made for the presumable good OF the
there IL no longer necessity for DIVIDING
the field into squares. Lines at intervals
Of five yards from end to end will make the
game. should be accepted as such by the
men who are in the sport this year to en-
deavor to the best OF their ability to work
out everything satisfactorily.
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dealt with. II . player Is downed with
the ball. first n boy. who has no reason
to become involved in the play. will jump
on the PROSTATE youth to assist in holding
him: then another and another. and I have
seen even the fullback running the whole
length Of the field to throw himself on
top Of all with no more reason for doing
so than that he wanted to show that he
was In the game.
II this foolishness b wholly eradi.
Gated among the young players. those
who object to football for the boys be-
tween fifteen and twenty will nnd that
one principal source Of danger to the boy
carrying tho ball has been eliminated.
When the boys find that it is against the
rules to do this. and not a part of foot
ball.. desire to win will bring about a
speedy reform on their part because they
will no relish being penalized. What il
true OF the boys is also true Of some COL
lese players who make q great pretence
OF being in every tackle In which several
players are involved. and 1t seems to
have been q very wise policy to have
incorporated clauses in tho rule which
will not only discourage the prac-
tice. but will punish it by penalty In every
way.
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A Good Preventive

- ~SS~ S4VVVA4k4v0s
Another section Of the revised rules pro.
hibits the interlocked interference. This.
too. u q move in the right direction. for It
preserves individuality Of action. which II
q distinct safeguard against injury. This
section Of rule XVII. is 20 clear and sane
that 1t is worth emphasizing to impress it
fully upon those who shall be members Of
the elevens Of this season. The section
roads,
mo player Of the. side in possession Of
the ball shall use his hands. arms or body
to push. pull or hold upon his feet the
player carrying the ball, nor shall there
be n interlocked interference. BY inter-
locked interference 10 mean the grasping
OF one another by. or encircltng the body
to any degree with, the hands or arms by
the players Of the side in possession OF the
ball"
Presume that a player Of the attacking
side has the ball in his possession. He ID
tackled by q player of the opposing side.
In the past 1t has bean customary for the
players Of the sid in possession Of the ball
to come to the assistance Of tho man with
the ball. AMI even though he b momen.
tartly checked. one of his own team might
grasp him. hold him erect and push or
pull him for some distance Into the terri
tory Of the defending side.
Other players Of the attacking side might
Join with him md With arms around each
other push and pull in united effort asains,
the contendins side until the player hold
Ing the bail was the storm centre OF q
struggling mass and in no position Ia
guard and care for himself. since. with the
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individual Effort,

We have team play in baseball. All of
our American athletes can tell what II
u and define 1t. but team play in baseball
Invariably depends upon the individual
and not upon the concentrated physical
effort Of three or four. When we can
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New Playing Time.

New Playing Time.
The division of the playing time, into
quarters is a concession to the speed Of
the game and borrowed from Canadian
football.
It is not an easy matter to reckon with
safety Just what effect this will have on
football. 1t is true that the primary mo-
tive is to afford rest for the players. Can
adam football Is so much closer to Rugby
than the American game that the sub-di.
vision Of the halves 10 almost imperative
to give the players a moment to recuper.
ate.
Our game has not always required the
high pitch Of energy that IL necessary in
the Canadian game. Some Of the players
have been compelled to work at top speed
and others have not. As a rule the more
Important American games have been
steady developments Of a system Of play
Ito accomplish a certain purpose.
] Whether there is expected to DO such
change in football this year that a rest
will be required in the middle Of one Of
THE halves Of a game I am sure 1t Is
tdificult to imagine. It would appear that
such might be considered to be the case.
The question as to whether his period
of rest will work to advantage in the
american game devolves greatly on what
IL made out of football In the season at
hand. For instance. II a team were maxi
ling slow but certain progress toward the
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to be learned In the next six weeks. Il
looks very much as IL the back field play
will become more diversified and more
spectacular than It ever has been. As q
matter of fact this rule makes Il possible
Tor every eleven to have four active backs
at. work instead of three, and an assistant.
as has been the case in the past. Add to
this the increased valu Of the forward
pass, In that 1t may be thrown over the
line at any point, n It will be apparent
That four backs. II they are sufaciently
clever, can baft1e q wise opponent by their
the line.
II a team finds itself sufficiently smart
,and Win a good snapper back 1t may lead
Dup 60 the point where two-thirds Of the
plays Will be started at the i've yard
Hne: II the reading Of the rules is clear.
N mat they stipulate that a back ono
yard behind the scrjmmase line Is eligible
to receive a forward pass, even the quar
ter back. II he gets the ball nom the a
per back one yard behind the line, becomes
eligible to take the ball after he has
passed 1t back to the nan who Is behind
the five yard line. There Is no end to The
complications which the back field may
make for an adversary. directly the play
ers have had time ia practise and to work
out the rules to their satisfaction.
Regarding Substitutes.
Any player who has not been disqualified
or suspended may be removed from the
game and then returned to 1t once at tn.
beginning of any subsequent period.
Tha rule will not work well. It is wrong
IN theory and will be worse In practice,
A time may arrive in q game when a good
kicker Is needed to score a point for a
team. There may be one player on an
eleven who is a good kicker and not much
o: anything else. One player Is dropped
out Of the team and the kicker comes in
and does his work. Under the rule he
may be dropped at once for another man
and yet I've eligible to enter the game
later at the beginning Of a period ana
the performance when q perfect
KICK Is needed. This Is specializing play.
era with a vengeance. Not even our
baseball rules have gon that far, In sp,>
of the fact that they permit substitution.
A substitute may enter the game in base.
ball. bit the player whose position he took
nay not play again.
Another fault about the permission
clause. in regard to Substitutes. 10 that the
player who goes out for a brief rest Ia
likely to acquire information concerning
the game from the side lines. No matter
how faithfully this may be guarded
against. and no matter how unsportsman.
like 1t may be. 1t 10 almost out OF the cues.
ton to believe that effort will not be mads
In some way to impress upon the restins
player the weak points of the opposins
l don't believe that the rule viii hs
FOUND to work well and 1t will not ba su,.
|prising II II Is done away with At the ana
OF this season. 1t Is right enough 10 ~
nit substitutes. but when q man h. out "a
the game let him stay out. S1'"s
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Back to iii Old Field.

Once again 1t Is a gridiron and no a
checker board. lnasmuch as the man to
whom the ball is snapped may run 1t
through h scrimmage line at any point.
green look . little more familiar than It
has In recent years.
To what extent this increase Of the power
iof attack will assist the quarter back 10
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resolved itself almost wholly into the abll.
ity Of his wi side to. maintain him in ar
erect position. II thrown to the ground HI
was likely to become the bottom figure o.
a dangerous pile up"
VIII End These Plays.
The strict enforcement Of this rule
should drive from the game all mass plays
based on concerted effort to advance
the ball after 1t has once been checked
In progress by the defending side. The
player who has the ball in his possession
must rely upon his Individual enor,
to penetrate the defence and when finally
stopped through the efforts of the side no,
in possession Of the ball or because the
referee is satisfied that the progress of the
ball has been stopped within the provision
OF the rules. there should not be found
such sights as have been common on the
football field when ten or fifteen players
have slowly disentansled themselves from
q d~tsorganised mass to discover that the
player with the ball. who was beneath all
OF them. Is senseless from injury or al
most powerless from exhaustion.
The abolition Of interlocked interior.
ence in more ways than one reaches to
the very root Of the cancer Of unnecessary
mass play against which critics and anti.
football advocates have inveighed for
years.
Individuality Of action on the football
Held. 50 far as IT does away with mass
play. should serve t. make the game
brighter. cleaner and more interesting.
Concerted football. in which different in
dividuals play their part in blocking OF
eludins the defence. or separating the at.
tack, Is purely within the strategy of the
game. but concerted football in which
players assemble in masses to advance
the ball by sheer force Of strength o,
weight resolves itself too much into push
ball. which is foreign to football.
The acme Of football strategy u where
ono individual matches his brains, speed
and skill against another or against q
sequence Of individuals a. he meets them
one at a time. but not where the indi.
vfdual Is compelled to defend himself
against the mass or where the indiv1dua
becomes h centre around which tw.
masses revolve in conflicting effort. on,
with the purpose to force the individua
player forward and the other with thu
purpose to force the individual player {,
retreat.
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First Practical Use.

In the first year Of introduction Of the
forward pass. before its future had been
worked out to n extent, or before any
one had grasped o much Of an element
1t might be toward the winning of foot
ball games. little was seen of it in a sat-
isfactory way until almost tho close of
the season. when Yale startled the foot
bail world with the long forward passes
which settled in the hands of Alcott and
vent far toward turning the tide in fayo,
Of the Ellis in important games.
F., The suggestion which was carried In
these plays was so much elaborated
Ianother year that almost every football
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Evils To Be Overcome.

The evils which the present revision Of
the rules have ~endeavored to overcome are
what might be called c~ontributory causes
to injury Of light or serious character. For
example. effort has been made to do away
with the diving tackle-a dangerous and
harmful play. For a young ma to launch
himself headlong at a running adversary
may b thrilling and heroic. but 1t Is
fraught with a possibilities. Players
have been seen to precipitate themselves
into an onrushipg line a II they were div
ing from the ocean sand into an oncomtng
breaker. In 60 doing they were wholly
without protection to themselves. for the
very method Of their plan Of defence left
them without power to care for their own
safety in a mass Of players In steady
motion and on their feet.
The revision Of the rules this year has
also forbidden and penalized the helping Of
players who are on the ground. h COM
mittee has defined as crawling any at
tempt Of the man with the ball to wriggls
ahead after fairly down. It was wise
legislation. A player pulled or pushed
too often is in position where muscles
are contracted or limbs so turned hat
joints are likely to be misplaced and
bones broken. An effort has been made to
bring all players to q thorough under
standing Of the fact that when the ball ID
once down it is down." and the more
rigidly the oficials enforce that doctrine
the less liability there will be Of injury to
the player stopped or tackled. and the
quicker the game will be rid Of the de-
sire to beat the actual stopping Of the
ball with a foot or two Of gain by crawl
ing" over the surface Of the field.
It would appear hat both Of these re-
forms. which have been introduced into
the rules. are to result more eflcactously
among the younger players Of the game
than their elders.
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eleven had its system Of forward passes
at work at the very beginning Of the sea-
son. Some OF them were successful and
Another season found the forward pass
still in popularity among colleges because
It was incorporated in the rules. and in
order to make It effective not n coach
but several had devised plays by which
the defending tackle was to be driven
in m overwhelmed. 70 that passes
could be made in safety while the end
was boxed" or put so far out Of play
that he could Be OF no assistance. This
constant wear n tear Of heavy lines
an assault which vas too much for one
man to bear. The marvel Is that the
tackles stood up under It 50 well as they
did. In the opinion Of moro than one tho
strain which was put on the tackles who
played in the elevens Of 1909 was about as
severe a test as ever football players werc
asked to undergo. and personally It seems
to mo that the tackles Of last season de.
serve to go or record rs A No. / for hold.
ing up as they did.
Still in the Rules.
1t will not do n good to rebel at the
forward pass this year. Whether It Is
good football or bad football or not foot
ball. 1t Is in the rules again, and it must
be considered with all the possibilities
which make for It as a part Of football
strategy.
The story is told that football politics
kept the play in the rules. It is asserted
thai for the first time in the history Of the
American college game a rules committee
was swayed by the manoeuvre 80 common
in politics Of A voting for BIS plan II
will vote for AS system. When the per-
sonnet Of the football rules committee was
changed it was suggested tina perhaps
that would be one Of the first changes most
In evidence because. with a bulkier organi-
cation n the whims to be considered Of
men who had never played football. and
who knew little about the fundamentals OF
the game. there was nc telling how many
might be proposed or how far
the members would 90.
There were two fatalities in the football
season Of 1909 which were more effective!
than almost all other reasons for bringing
about this years revision. There wereI
other fatalities ascribed to football for
which the game was not responsible. |
has been the case every year.
In making lists Of football injuries and
fatalities the best Of care Is not always|
For instance. it is hardly
to ascribe the death Of a playerI
to football when the player has been
never to try to play the game. !
Such an instance happened under my I'M
mediate observation. A young man, with
a weakened system. was armed not to
play football and not to undertake violent
exercise Of any description. He disregard
the Injunction. played football against
the advice Of his physician and died from
the illness to which he was subject. It IL
unjust to insist that football was pri-
marily responsible for his death. a base
boil would very likely have produced the
same result
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fully devise In football team play In which
the individual shall stand out as strongly
as he does in baseball the great autumn
sport of the United States will be nearer
its highest development than It ever has
been In the past, and to h mind Of the
writer the intent of the section Of the
rules which has Just been commented
upon is a longer step in the right direction
toward bringing about such a condition
than has been taken at any conference
of the rules committee since the begin
ming Of the readjustment Of the game.
There a been some legislation in the
past directed against the '.piling up of
players. but, in q way. it was ineffective.
owing to the lax manner in which the on
Gals enforced the rules. It is not probable
that III officials were so violently opposed
to the rules hat they tempered Justice
with too much mercy for the mere salts
faction Of killing the legislation. but they
have been slow to act on the ground that
it might not always be possible to prevent
''piling up"
There need be no reason for delay in en-
forcing penalties this year, for the rule ID
plain n mandatory. and there is no foot
ball player who is Intelligent enough to
take part in the game who can plead ig-
'norance where the path to knowledge is 50
we'll lighted.
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ball In his arms. he was practically power.
less. His sole dependence against injury
ity of his OWN slds. to: maintain him in an
erect position II thrown to the ground he
likely to become the bottom figure Of
a dangerous pile up."
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Reasons for Attitude.
BY John B. Foster

h smaller colleges attacked the game
because men had been u md killed.
Critics attacked the game. not only because
Of the injuries which had arisen in play
ing it, but for the reason that it had re-
solved itself into a stupidity slow pushing
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-28
THE COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-The cotton
market opened steady at an advance of
549 points In response to higher cables
than expected and a continuation of
Yesterday 8 buying movement. Buliish
spot advices from the South helped the
market and shortly after the opening
old crop positions showed gains Of from
10 to II points, with May selling at
14.3s, or 6S points above the recent low
level. At this price there was consid-
eralble realizing, and local traders
showed some disposition to take the
short side on the reaction theory, as a
result of which reactions occurred from
the best. but spot people were buyers
on the dips, and the market during the
middle of the morning was within 2 or
8 points Of the best, with the tone
steady.
The slight reaction from the early
high point was followed by a renewal
of the upward movement, owing to in
creased support from leading buils on
the dips and a more active demand
from shorts, with prices selling up to
q net advance OF 1920 points before
midday. Rumors that heavy shipments
would be made from the local stock
within the next thirty days accom-
panied the advance, which was also
encouraged by bullish Southern spot
advices.