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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
Coach Heisman, In Dissecting
1912GridironRules, Finds That
Very Few Changes Are Needed
By Tad

defensive formation opened IN
and this last is what enables the
team with the ball to gain ten yards
in four trials by rushing the ball.
1t is the threat OF the pass. rather
than the pass itself, that does the
business.
Penalties Should Be Same.
Mr.. Chip Robert calls my atteu-
ton to what strikes me as q rule
point that stands in need of amend
merit. The point is interesting. In
other games and in other depart
ments of football as well penal
ties are uniform-as they should
be-and the same foul Is or ought
to be punished in the same way
and exactly to the same extent, no
matter when 1t happens in the
game. Take foul interference.
Here the foul is always punished
by the loss of fifteen yards and
the down remains the same. If the
offensive team gets off-side, it Is
a five-yard loss and the same down.
But If the defensive side happens
to get off side it is not only loss
of five yards foR that team, but the
following down becomes first down,
no matter what the number of the
preceding down on which the off
side play occurred-that Is to say,
it makes no difference, as the rule
now stands, whether the off side
play was made by the defensive
team on first down or on
fourth down play, the subsequent
down becomes first down. instead
of remaining the same as it was
before-as is the case when the Of
fensive team gets off side.
To clinch the argument: For be-
ing off-side why am l not pun
ished the same one time as an
other? On this occasion / happen
to be off side on first down
play-and opponents are given
mere first down in addition to theI
five yards. Thus my team has lost
a mere Ave yards. But the next
time / get off-side | find IL nap
pened after my team had stopped
them three times in their tracks
and all this good work Is thrown
away because the present RUE
makes the penalty not merely liVt
yards loss, but sends the numbei
of the down back to first. Had the
application of the penalty been
uniform, it would still be fourth
down, and the distance to De
gained would still be about hVe
i yards on their last trial, as theS
had gained nothing on their thiI-
rushing attempts.
The rule should undoubtedly pe
amended so as to make the sue
ceeding down after q foul by the
defensive team be the same as /,
was on the play during which the
foul occurred, as is the case when
the offensive team makes a foui.
| look for very few changes, IN
deed, for next season. A few re-
workings for the sake Of greater
clearness will about wind UP the
deliberations of the committee.
/ wonder might they not ASK
themselves why require the punter
to pull his stunt off standing I'VE
yards behind his scrimmage hne'
instead of anywhere in the field ne
pleases? Surely there is no gre:a'
sense in retaining this relic OF tine
dark, middle ages.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12

George. who loves the plaudits of
the assembled multitude more than
anything else in the world except
& perhaps
But George Edward got over 1t
in time, as everybody has to in
this sorrowful world And it was
about three weeks later that he was
told to take extra good care of his
wing, as he was to unfurl the same
against Danny Shea's K. c. Blues
the next day, the said Blues for
some absolutely unprecedented rea-
son being at that time engaged in
tussle for the top rung Of the
ladder
The morning before the game,
George Edward said ne believed
he'd go for a little walk, to steady
his nerves before going to the park.
And that was the last heard of the
RUDE until sunset that afternoon,
when searching party discovered
him playing first base at the top
of his voice for team of twelve
year-olds, who were taking an aw-
full licking from a bigger club.
One From Frank Bowerman,
Frank Bowerman-you recall
BoWerman OF the once famous bat
terry of Mathewson and Bowerman
played first base for the Blues
year before last, and he says it
isn't Matty's fault that his
(Frank's) dome of thought still is
acting as washer to keep his col
lar from coming off.
Matty used to spend much of the
winter hunting with Frank up in
northern Michigan, where Frank
owns a large number of square
miles Of timber land. The occa-
sion Of the sparing of Franks bean
was a combination of Big Six, a
hammerless gun that Jared loose. a
RAILROAD track in the wilderness.
and stubbed toe for the worlds
greatest hurler.
las it was, 1t absolutely ruined a
perfectly good hat" Frank used to
say. and feel affectionately of his
grizzled thatch covering. And Mat
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12


March 17-CathoIic university.
March 19-Holy Cross
March 2t-Princeton.
March 22-Lehgh
March 24-Holy Cross
March 25-Washington Americans.
March 26-Johns Hopkins
March 2S-Amherst
March 29-Washington Americans
April 2-Lafayette
April 3~Cornell
April 4-Coruell
April Randolph Macon.
April 11-North Carolina at Greensboro.
April l2-North Carolina, al Charlotte.
April 17-Davdson.
April 1S-North Carolina
April la--Geoi getown.
April 23South Carolina
Aprll 25-Trpity. al North Carolina.
April Georgetown at Washington.
April 30-Napy. at Annapolis
May Princeton. al Princeton
May 2 Yale. al New Haven.
May 3-Army, at West Point,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
By Percy H. Whiting.

- - 80 .
TIME biggest blow-off in years
in Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic association circles
is expected at the annual meeting
which will be held at Tulane uni
verslty, New Orleans, tomorrow
and Saturday.
The association will take up the
cases of the University of Missis-
sippi and of Kentucky State uni
versity, and the inside tip IS that
a riot may confidently be antici-
pated.
The Mississippi case has been a
storm center all this year The fac
ulty OF the college opened up by
firing Players Causey, Walon, Ca
hill and Shields and Coach Stauf-
fer. The executive committee of
the S. I, A. A. took the same ac-
ton, Then the Mississippi faculty
reconsidered its action, but the ex-
ecutiye committee of the S. i. A. A.
refused to do likewise. Instead,
they piled it on by disquafifying
Fletcher, near the end of the sea-
son. Then Mississippi played the
baby act and Cancelled Its game with
Mississippi A. & M.
In papers which make a special
ty of University of Mississippi news
there have been constant hints that
Coach DeTray and one man close
TO him may also be put under fire,
but nothing definite is known of
this
From information cleaned from
rumors and hints it appears that
athletic conditions at the Univer-
sity of Mississippi have been hor-
rible. AS is usually the case. the
pernicious activity of the alumni
involved the college and the col
lege authorities failed in their duty
of keeping their own athletics clean.
Some fine stun viii no doubt be
brought out at the coming meet
ing,
IN recent letter from Edward T.
Holmes, president of Gordon and
secretary and treasurer of the s. /.
A. A., he says;
Dear Mr. Whiting: ] am inclos-
ing the list of proposed amend
ments TO the S. T. A. A. constitu-
ton which will be considered at
the annual meeting Friday and
Saturday at New Orleans
The most important matter
which will be considered viii
probably be the hearing of the
charges against the University of
Mississippi and Kentucky State
university. AS the matter now
stands FIVE Mississippi players and
the coach are under fire.
Kentucky State had trouble with
the Kentucky association and was
blacldisted by that organization.
Both Mississippi and Kentucky
State viii bring their cases be-
fore the convention for a final
hearing.
Tulane will entertain the con-
vention at a smoker Friday even
ing
Responses indicate that the %
colleges Of the association viii be
represented
Nevy truly yours.
EpW ARD Y. HOLMES.
Sec Treas, 5. l. A. A.
THE list of proposed amendments
to the constitution Of the S. I.
A. A. is as long as the constitu-
ton of these United States and
more complicated.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
MERCER QUINTET OPENS
SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT

MACON. GA. Dec. u The Mercer
basket bah five gets going in its initial
game on The local floor tomorrow night.
While The team this season will not be
ms good as the one that wore the orange
oud black last year, IL viii be pretty
fast and Wen trained bunch
The team that Mercer plays win lie
composed % some ~ the best amateurs
in THIS section ~ the state Roy Cook.
~ MERGERS last years team. VIII play
e forward for The team against his 8id
teammates "a n duo 90 be a klr! hard
fought game and 30 doubt some ff.ef bus-
ket ban will uH uucprked
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12

league magnates, Hermann left for
home today. The annual meeting
of the league was finished last
night
Now that the Tinker deal is out
Of the way, attention focused today
on the possibility of Frank Chance
being signed to manage the Yam
KEGS. While Frank Farrell. the
owner of the Yankees, refused to
give out any statement, Chance is
expected in New York within a few
days to sign contract. The deal is
said to be as good as completed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
SMITH STOPS WUEsT

NEW YORK, Dee. l2.-Gunboa,
Smith, Of California. viii get chance
In the elimination bouts to urr.. e.
rnaI ....httn hn,,..,,- L. "a ..-- - H.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
BY j. W. Heisman.

~ other football season has
all cleared away, we are In
position to see clearly how the
rules worked out. For so many
years now the rules have been
tinkered with each winter that we
naturally look for further changes
each successive season.
But this year I seriously doubt
whether any important alterations
will be made. AS whole, the new
rules by themselves. and also in
combination with the old ones,
worked out very nicely. Few COM
plants of any kind have been
heard, coming either from players,
coaches or spectators. In other
words, a satisfactory game has at
last been evolved, and there will
be found little or no need for fur
Their change.
The most gratifying manner in
which the rules operated this year
was in producing a game that had
it's offense and it's defense properly
balanced. The salient features OF
this corrected adjustment were:
1. The average distance re-
quired to be gained by team
on offense was IL yards per
down. This as a mean between
31-3 yards last year and 2-3
yards five years ago was found
to be the correct distance, as
contrasted with the erroneous
extremes.
2. The elimination of ''hik- 10
ing" the runner made the
strain far less burdensome on
the defensive tackles, so that
they could hold up through an
entire game-to say nothing
of rendering the game much
less dangerous for the tackles
g. The continued possibility
of a team pulling off long for
ward passes at any stage of the
game compelled the defensive
team to keep Well back a strong
secondary defense. This OPP
Grated to help out the offense,
and largely made UP for what
the offense had lost in being
deprived of the right to help
the runner by pulling and
pushing.
4. The right to send this for
ward pass clear across the goal
line operated to keep the de-
e.
even when the ball was close
to their goal, and so it became
possible for a team to push the
ball across for touchdowns
without requiring much more
effort and strength than adj
vancing the ball in mid -field--
as was the case last year.
5. On the other hand. this
was somewhat compensated for
by the elimination of the on
side kick. This resulted in some
teams sending back only one
man 10 handle punt, leaving
the others all up near the line
to help stop the fake kicks so
common in these days.
The Forward Pass Again.
Now that the reports are all in.
we will have to admit that again,
the country over, the forward pass
has been oftener incompleted than
completed. No matter how prom
Using these things look in Septem-
Der and October, by the time No
vember gets around the coaches
have found time in which to give
their teams ample defensive drill
on stopping them, with the result
that they are stopped. In other
words, they are much less apt to
work out successfully In the big
matches of November than they do
In the early season games. when
teams have not had time to thor
oughly cover all the defensive
points Of play.
And still the pass, or rather it's
possibility is all right Ia the game.
II Is the fact that team with the
bail IA possession always MAY
puiI on the crazy thing thaf com
ppis the defensive team 10 keep its
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
GARRY SURE TINKER
WILL PILOT A WINNER

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-"Now
" watch the Reds make
clean sweep" said Garry
Hermann, his face wreathed in
smiles, as he started for Cincin-
natl today, Il have every conf
dence that Joe Tinker, who will
manage my team, viii make 1t
winner"
Hermann seemed quite overcome
with JOY and. as one of his friends
put it, continually wore one of those
I've eaten the canary" smiles. To-
gether with his fellow National
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12

n a STANDS for American
~ ~ association, circuit
Of baseball clubs
sparsely inhabiting the mid
western section of these Unit
ed States, playing an article
of ball slightly more supine
than the majors-sometim es-and
engaged at all times in desperate
alteration with its president on
the subject Of umpires.
"A. A." also stands for other
things, as the dictionary will show.
Among the first to bob up in con-
nection with the American associa-
ton would be alarming anecdotes.
The association is full of ex-major
veterans, and ex-major vets are
full of anecdotes. 1t is the original
I-Knew- Him When league. There
may be some dead wings in 1t, but
there is no lack of conversational
control. ....,
They do tell 'em, in the A. A.
And there are plenty of pegs to
hang EN- on.
There for instance) is RUDE
Waddell, and everybody knows
there never was but one really and
truly RUDE, and that George Ed
ward is it, There is Nicholas AL
trock--or, rather, there was Nicho-
las Altrock-who got so eccentric
that even the Kansas City Blues
couldn't maintain him, so they
wished him on Clark Griffith. who
gave him the job of doing a brother
act with Germany Schaefer, using
the coaching lines as a slack wire.
And there are plenty more of the
ex-greats, and some of them fairly
great, at that, and all good to hang
stories on.
They started on MordecaT Brown
before the last season ended, when
It was rumored the famous pruned
slabman of the Cubs would man
age Louisville next year.
Brown Went Bird Hunting.
Joe Cantillon was talking about
the first time Brownie ever went
bird hunting. Joe says it was the
finest sport he (Joe) ever had, even
without the element of personal
: hazard, which was considerable, 1t
seems Joe was chaperoning the
party.
I'VE were hunting over a field of
sage grass" said Joe, and you bet
l was walking behind Brownie,
who carried his gun as if he was
trying to bunt. Up popped a bird
and began To run along the path
in front of us. Brownie jumped
about yard, right up In the air,
and came down with his gun point
ing in the general direction of the
bird.
Hold on says /, YOU aren't
going to shoot him running, are
you?'
Why, no says Brownie. I'm
going to wait till he stops,
And Joe says Brownie did that
very thing AID when the bird
stopped and sat down to rest,
Brownie ba2eG away, And missed
WaddelI Funny as Ever.
Rube Wa dden likes to live in
Minneapolis. where he occasionally
is permit ed to pitch in the summer
time, He likes it so well that Joe
. Cantilo' has to take him out to
'the farr ever so often, and il is a
fact Tat the Rube's control lever
alwayJ works better after one of
those little rural excursions. He is
just l. funny as ever If possible,
an..~Snjoys himself more than Joe
,~6es.
one OF the arst things George
, Edward decided to 10 after he was
~%shipped TO Millertown was TO go
- fishing. He Went to q sporting
Mods house and selected $40 worth
tackle. which he ordered deliy-
i. ~ TO himself, in care of Joe Can
MNA G. Q, Z,
WIN couldn't see the point and
Sae stun back His idea of
~ ne thc Rube was not to let
= fer Week TA8 war
I'M bloH ~ the laiIAfu
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
Big Expose Of Mississippi Men
Due at intercollegiate Session
AtTulaneU University Tomorrow

None of the provisions WHICH
SEEN LIKELY TO PASS are es-
peclally important
1t is evident from the number of
amendments aimed at the playing
under assumed names that this evil
has reached considerable proper
lions.
one rather important amendment
offered is that no S. /. A. A team
shall be allowed to play with any
team in the s. !. A. A. territory
which is not a member Of the as
sociation. This provision, of course.
is aimed to put the pressure on col
leges which do not join the asso-
citation.
A resolution is also offered that
the association appoint a commit
tee to publish a list Of colleges"
in the Southern territory, Such a
list is necessary because of the
one-year rule, which provides that
players going from one college to
another shall not be eligible for a
year after the change Often bit
ter questions arise as to when a
college is and isn't college
An amendment which would be
rather drastic if adopted provides
that no man shall take part in in
tercollegiate athletics until he has
been a resident at the college for
one year, that to be resident for
one year he must matriculats with
in 80 days of the opening of the
season and must see it through.
IT HE usual annual effort to unseat
DR.. w, l.. Dudley, OF VAN
derbilt, as head of the association
is made in a proposed amendment
that provides that no officer except
the secretary treasurer shall be
eligible to succeed himself That
appears foolish provision, with
no earthly chance of becoming a
law of the association.
To make this little strong it
is further provided that no person
shall be eligible to hold the Office
of president who is connected. di-
rectly or indirectly. with any col
lege of the association or who is
or ever has been a student at any
college of the association. p. s.
II this gets through, it will be nee
essary to seek among ditch diggers
and such for eligible men.
Presumably to make it worth
while for some man not connected
with any of the 5. l. A. A. colleges
to serve it Is proposed to pay the
president salary, though the
amount of this salary is left blank.
In order to make it possible for
professional ball players to take
part in the college games. it has
been proposed by some one that
anybody he allowed to play college
baseball SO long as he has not.
since entering college, played Tor
more than his expenses. on that
basis, Ty Cobb could enter college
and play baseball so long as he did
not rejoin the Tigers. Swell rul-
ing, that.
UNLESS there has been "A lot of
underground work, there will
be few, if any. changes Of lmpor
-, e !,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12
Bv O. B. Keller.

Former Atlanta Newspaperman,
now Baseball Editor Kansas City
Star, Who Is in Atlanta on Vaca-
tion.)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-12

UNLESS there has been lot Of
underground work, there will
be few, if any. changes Of impor-
lance in the constitution and none
among the officials DR.. Dudley has
made the association what it is
and is the logical man to lead IL
so long as he is willing to take the
Job, Various disgruntled athletic
authorities have tried to take a
fall out of him several times in the
past but never with much success
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-03-13
Don't Talk About Your Troubles.

Learn to keep your own affairs
locked up in your heart, but be will
ing to listen to others sorrows.
That's the way to do.
There is no use in the world in
harping on the crazy tear-makina
events of life.
Be patient with the faults of 9th.
ers and be patient with your own,
But don't talk about the worries and
trials of everyday existence.
There is no sense in that at all. II
is a tremendous waste of energy. No
one wants to hear about individual
troubles. Constant talking about ones
troubles is a sure path to chronic
fault finding, pickering, and family
rows that cause more misery than
anything else on earth. And what
good does the talking do? The sym.
pathy you get doesn't amount to row
Of pins.
Individuals of the right sort resent
being pitied Don't be a sympathy
beggar.
Smiles lead you back to youth.
tears drag you quickly to old age.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-03-13
Tears In the Contract,

A southern lawyer has gained state.
wide repute for his success in pleading
criminal cases. His claim to fame Is
that he sheds real tears while urging
juries to save his innocent clients, and
the clause mo tears, no pay" is a
part of every contract he makes.
He had a case not long ago that
seemed easy on the start, but devel.
oped later into a most difficult one.
Not long after he had turned on the
tears the attorney had II of the jury
weeping also. One stony-hearted juror
sat and glared at him. Tears had no
effect on him. The attorney redoubled
his efforts and his tears. He devoted
himself entirely to this adamant juror.
Tears splashed from his eyes and
dewed his whiskers and his waistcoat.
He talked eloquently and cried still
more eloquently. Presently the set
features of the determined juror re-
Taxed a bit.
Brushing away most of the tears
the attorney turned his back to the
juror and bent down to get glass Of
water. AS he stopped he whispered
to his law partner, who sat near him:
John, I've never lost one yet! That
darned old sucker can't hold out two
minutes more"
And he enthusiastically Evening
Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-03-13
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