The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-04
NEW RULES
 FORFOOTBALL
RULES COMMITTEE COMPLETES ITS WORK MAKING 4 NUMBER
 OF RULE CHANGES.
Gives One More Touchdown, Eiimi- mates on Side Kick, Increase Touchdown Score One Point
 and Other Changes.

New York, Feb 3.-The football rules committee, which has been work. .ag in secret here for two days upon nnumerable suggestions for altering the game, came to unanimous decision late today in favor of several funda- mental changes.
 The committee laid down its ardu- ous task tonight with the belief that it had greatly improved the popular college sport. The lines of it's antici- pated improvement are sa substance as follows
 The playing field, now 1l0 yards in length, will be shortened to an even 100 yards. This change in itself is not vital, but it is made in order to make possible on small grounds an extension of territory in which the forward pass may be used.
 A zone of 10 yards width beyond the goal lines is established. The purpose of this is to provide ample space for the execution of the for ward pass and scoring on a pass made acr6ss tho goal line into this zone is permitted
 The number of downs to gain ten yards is increased by one.
 The on.side kick is eliminated.
 The value of touchdown is in creased from points to points the eoai from touchdown and other scores standing as at present
 The 20 yards zone, which at the present provide restrictions to inter ference with the forward pass, is eliminated so that the restrictions will apply now to any part of the field &
 After touchback the bah will be put in play from the 20-yard line instead of the 25-yard fine.
 On kickoff the ball, instead of being put into play .1 the center of the field. will be put in play from the l0.yard line of the team kicking off. Taking into consideration the shortening of the field and this change in the rules, he kickoff distance is heightened by five yards.
 The field judge is eliminated. The head linesmaa hereafter will keep time and be judge of offside plays in the line of scrimmage.
 The number of men allowed on the side lines. now three, will be reduced to one for each team.
 Provision will be,made that a bound ing ball cannot score legitimate goal
 An interval between the first and seeoad and the third and fourth pc. riods is reduced from two minutes to one minute.
 E. K. Hall of Dartmouth, chairman of the committee. announced the sub stance of these changes to newspa- per men tonight. None of them has been put in code form, but Chairman Hall said they were all unanimously adopted and would be incorporated in the 1912 rules A committee was named to codify the new rules and instructed to have them ready as soon as possible that they might be circn. lated and studied before the practice season begins. This committee in cludes Waiter Camp of Yale. Percy Haughton of Harvard and William Morris of Pennsylvania It was said the changes adopted were the work Of no one individual
 The principal improvement expect ed of the new rules is equalization of the chances of the offensive and de- fensiye teams. It has long been con. tended that the defense was too pow erful and play when close to it's goal line Allowing of a touchdown on a forward pass across the goal line is expected greatly to relieve this cen dition. Addition Of point to the value Of touchdown is intended to make uhe comparative values of the Touchdown and the goal from the field Substantially what they were before the recent high development of the latter play
 In considering the adoption of an extra down, the question arose as to whether it would not bring back the old bounding attack, but the commit tee felt that 1t WAS not likely to have lhat tendency in view nf fha fact ihat