Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-12

himself against Princeton. Those who
like the line-plunging type Of game need
| ed only the encouragement Of this new
rule to invent some new form Of line
| plunging attack. That it will come is
| also the opinion Of W. w. Roper. the
| former head coach at Princeton. While
admitting that the new rules will not
handicap Princeton, Mr.. Roper contends
! that they will make it doubly hard for
the small colleges to score.
There are a number of foot ball critics,
| like Walter Camp Of Yale, who insist
/ that the new rules will be an incentive
| to the development of the running game.
| No one has yet been able to explain to
| what extent the running game will be
more popular or effective under the new
| rules. If this prediction comes true 1t
would be cause for thanksgiving, be-
cause the running game is what the
I general public likes to see.
Wanted Onside Kick Retained.
| With the exception of the abolition Of
the onside kick, the other changes which
the committee made meet with general
approval There was never any particular
objection to the onside kick, although a
| good many colleges had found it diff
| f1cult to operate successfully. A COM
parison of the onside kick and the for
| ward pass would have been very much
| to the advantage of the former play, be-
cause it was operated last year. much
more successfully. Any team which
properly developed this play and afford
ed protection for the men to receive it
had a most effective weapon.
OF the other changes the most impress
i've is that which increases the value of
touchdown from 5 to points. The
frequency by which so many teams
Scarad with fold do At SSQ rxy
for the committee either to reduce the
value of such field goals from 3 to 2
points or to Increase the value of the
touchdown. The latter method made the
stronger appeal to the committee. Here
tofore it has been possible for team by
scoring two field goals to defeat a team
which was able to score but single
touchdown, provided 1t did not kick the
goal from touchdown. Now a touch
down itself without the goal, is equal to
two field goals, and the team scoring
touchdown has an opportunity to WIN by
accuracy in scoring its goal after making
PERMISSION between quarters from two to
one minute will merely leave time for the
two teams to change goals. AS a moment
of rest it has lost all importance.
Navy in American Regatta.
The best evidence Of the wonderful
progress which the American Rowing As
ISOLATION is making in the development of
it's annual regatta, which is to be held
this year on the Schuylkill river, P1l.la-
delphia, May %, is furnished by the an
nouncement that the Naval Academy at
Annapolis proposes to enter at least three
crews, two Fights and one four. The
stewards of this association have been
trying for a good many years to secure
the competition of the M,ddies, but not
until last year were they successful. the
Midshipmen were SO well pleased with
Their reception that they wish to make
this one of the annual features of their
rowing program. AS further incentive
the board of stewards at it's annual meet
ing elected a representative Of the Naval
Academy to this board.
Assurances have already been received
that crews will be sent this year from
Harvard, Cornell. Columbia, Yale, Penn
sylvania, Annapolis and probably Prince
ton. For a number of years the Tigers
have had representative on the board OF
stewards, but the Princeton faculty did
not consider that rowing had been suf-
ficently we'll establ shed there to permit
the crew to compete on the Schuylkill
But the splendid record which the Tiger
eight made last year has aroused the en-
thusiasm of the students and the grad"
yates to such q pitch that every enort
will be made to have. at least one of the
Princeton crews competitor in this re-
gatta.
Although the composition Of the board
of stewards includes for the most part
men connected with rowing at the varl-
usual efforts to have big representa-
ton of cub crews. They realize that the
early season finds the COLLEGE men IN
much better condition than their club r.
walls. For that reason they nave SO ar
ton of few events the club men do not
compete against the collegians.
The program this year will be very
much the same as in 1911. win slch d
splendid entry of college crews assured,
the stewards propose to make an un-
usual effort to interest the various school
Fights of the east. For number or
years they have tried to make the race
for scholastic Fights representative of the
interscholastic championship of America
In this they have not always succeeded.
for the reason that the school crews are
maintained at such an expense that the
various contenders for premier honors are
not able to send their crews regularly.
Michigan's New Experiment.
College men everywhere agree that the
University of Michigan has done a most
sensible thing in it's efforts to make ath-
letics there self-supporting and to bring
the advantages OF the various sports to
every student from an equal basis. Here
after each student of the university is
Obliged to pay fee of S. for member
ship In the athletic association. His men,
bership ticket entities him to admission to
every athletic contest held at Ann Arb0r.
Inasmuch as Michigan has a student at
tendance Of 5000, this will give the ath-
letic association a fund of $500 with
which to start the season.
There Is only one other university in
the east which has a system to be COM
pared with this. This is the University
Of Pennsylvania, but at the Quaker insti-
tuition membership in the association is
purely optional. The Quakers, although
they have an undergraduate attendance
of more than 5000, have only 1900 men,
bers in their association. AT Harvard,
Yale, Princeton and Cornell the athletic
privileges which Michigan and Pennsyl-
Vania give for s. a year cost several
times this amount.
Commercial Ducknin Leapue.