The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-10
CHANGES ARE ASKED
IN FOOTBALL RULES
Tom Shevlin of Yale Points
Out Faults in Present Reg
ulations for Gridiron.
COLLINS ONCE A STAR
Philadelphia Champions Sec
ond Sacker Helped to Win
Game for Columbia.
COLLINS ONCE A STAR

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Thc results
of the big football games this season
have made it certain that some Inn
portant changes will be made in the
rules before the opening OF the next
season.
1t is one thing 20 have tine rules
so that they will make the play open
and interesting and give the smaller
teams a chance, but it is altogether
another tribe of Indians to have the
rules so that scoring by superior foot
matched is next TO an impossibility.
The score of Yale Harvard, Yale
Princeton. Harvard-Princeton, Army
Navy, PTinceton- Dartmouth and a score
OF other games during the season shows
that the rules need revision.
There are few, if any. men in foot
ball today who have made closer study
of the game than Tom Shevlin of Yale.
He is firmly convinced that football
as played now needs rule changing
and he thinks Just two changes are
needed. 1t NAV be that the changes
be advocates will be presented TO the
rules committee when that body con-
venes in the winter. and they may get
considerable. support. for there is no
game. because il doesn I put enough
premium on offense. He SAYS 81 m not
strong for game in which the team
on the offense plays the hazardous
game. takes all the risks (the only
error on which team can score is one
made by the other side in possession OF
the BALD, and can't get anywhere. I'd
like 10 see a game in which there
isn't so much kicking on the second
down and in which the rules dom play
your defense for YOU as they do now
Shevlin IS suggestions for changes arc
these: First. keep the fen yards anil
have four downs instnal OF three; Sec
ond, have the four backs on the defense
ten yards behind the scrimmage line
when the ball is put in play: ''Tbose
are tha only changes needed he SAYS.
''The present game makes too big je
mand on the quarterback in offense anil
doesn't give the other PLAYERS enough
chance to show what they eau do. Sup
pose YOU gain seven yards on the first
try and none on the second. Then II
up TO the quarterback to fnd a way to-
gain on the next and last try, anl
about the only way out of it for him is
TO order kick. a team really has to
make its distance in two plays, which
are not enough.
Means of ofense.
-Four downs, on the other hand,
would lead TO the development of con-
structive offense. Let the rules stay as
they are about not helping tbe runner,
but give the quarterback and the other
ten PLAYERS reasonable number of op
port0uities TO see what they can 10 in
choosing and irving plays so as to give
the oTense fair test. This woul1
mean an equitable chance in case OF the
first plav being made right aud mis-
take being made in calling the second,
A chance which il doesn Z have now, and
which would put less responsibility on
one man. tho quarterback. AMI give more
opportunities 10 the other ten men.
Let them leave the forward pass in
if they want TO. It's no good and won &
hurt ANYBODY, Open il up-what the
forward pass was intended to do.
The present occupation OF the lead
ing football experts is picking the All
American eleven. 1t is pleasant oc-
cupation. makes a number of able young
gentlemen very pri1efu and does no
particular harm. ] confess I wouli be
puzzled 10 pick the best American
eleven and will not try it, I may later
give consensus eleven, after the brave
men who pick have finished their work.
The election OF Pendleton 10 captain
,Indoubtedly Sammy" White would
,ave been chosen Ia lead the Tiger war
ors but for. the unfortunate fact that
viii do honor To Princeton.
When men play baseball folks forget
hat they may have once answered
signal and plunged into
Inc Of flesh. moleskin and jersey. instead
u plowlng furrow in soft loam towards
square of bulging hair-Dlled ducklinr
he present day big League stars are also
lie football stars OF baseball. They still
ell a story of the wonderful play Phiis-
iolphias second baseman made when
n "rln -rahF the University
4 Columbia Collins starred In the CO.
lnbia- Amherst battle OF 1905. just az
e has starred In world series gamA
ince.
Collins Gridiron Star.
Collins was only sub" on the Column
la varsity that fan. which was coached
v BIN Morley. Collins did not get HIS
hanco nutli the las, 1--WE minutes, With
,mbers,. with the ball on Columbis's
Tcnty- yard line
Il replace Donovan" yelled Eddis 10
ne side lines. just as full of pepper as
e Is now prancIng about second. Col,
ms could run, in The open field sil,. a1d
all his own signal Donovan had been
laying quaIteback- Eddie did. lie vas
lrown for a loss by the Amherst ends.
The blue and white crowd OF CcluT
.Teaks or c9llins,s blue and white hit sess, Ss
,roWn by, Five, ten.. fifteen. twenty
ards he ripped of, before somebody
got him. Collins finally. In four plays.
,ok the ball 10 the twenty-ysrd line
Then Eddie sacrificed"
Il replace Collins" yelled fellow
AIMED Schultz. who had never been IN
varsity game before. although he had
zen four years op the squad.
Schultz yelled his own signal, too. It
as for try at goal from the field.
-hultz could kick. PUNK, II sailed
icr the cross-bar from the spot Col
fr,ontinued on Following Parel