Arizona republican., 1913-09-22
QUICK KICKING ID BE FEATURE OF FOOTBALL
Alterations of Code Awakens Coaches to Possibilities of the Wide Open Game; Smashes Reserved for
 the Final Gain.
Especial to The Republican.)

CHICAGO, III, Sept. 21.-When the whistle blows for the first ck-off of the season on any one of the thousand and one football fields, both the play CTS and the spectators will realize that a new game is before them. Perhaps it is the latter important element of the gridiron population that will have this fact borne in upon them the
 strongest. for the youths who pursued
 the pigskin last fall were awakened to
 as the season closed. There wasn't
 time then to take advantage of the
 eleventh hour knowledge. Therefore the coaches and the players stored it up
 in their brain files and now they are
 ready and anxious to blow the summer
 dust off and demonstrate what they
 know to be possible.
 Football is opening up to an extent
 that wasn't dreamed of 10 years ago.
 Even when the forward pass went into
 effect way back in 1905 no one on field
 or side lines would have admitted that there was chance for the line plung- ing form of attack to be shelVed. But that is practically what has been done, when the rules of 1912 were changed,
 and now with the 1913 regulations in force the changes, though minor, have helped the good work still further
 Battering Ram of Value.
 Now that the stirring smash of squads of husky men will be done away with entirely; battering ram tactics are still of incalculable value in many cases, but the coaches agree that the time and place for such attacks is when the ball is within the shade of the goal post, not in midfield. The liveliest ex- ample of that theory was staged when the Michigan Wolverines met the Quakers last year. The westerners were tOuted, and justly, long before they went east as a team that had de- VelOped line plunging to a high degree 1 of excellence. It certainly seemed so in the first half, for they scored three touchdOwns right off the reel. Penn sylvania was fairly swept down the field until the Red and Blue tactics were changed. There was nothing
 much to lose and possibly lots to gain through trying to run all around the Westerners-and a the end of the game the Wolverines had been beaten by a 27 to 21 score. Their plunging attack had wasted their strength so that when called on to extend themselves after l the fleet Quakers there was no answer. l That proved that even then a well grounded suspicion, that mass Hays should be reserved solely to gain the last few yards needed for a touchdown. No Restriction on Kicker.
 Of the changes which the rules have undergone this year the first and most important is that which does away with the five yard restriction placed l upon the kicker. Any distance that suits the man with the boot is allowable now i so that fans may look for quick kick 1 ing from directly behind the forwards as feature of this seasons game.
 Other Changes in Rules.
 ] For the other differences between the rules of this season and last, l specific penalty has been placed on advancing beyond the lines in case of
 a punt out, the penalty now being that 1 the punter's angle be moved five yards away from the nearest goal post along 1 the goal line. If the punter out makes ! a deliberate attempt by a feint to draw i the opponent offside, the referee is not to permit him to kick the ball until | the opponents have had time to return 1 behind their restraining line In the
 rules regarding the conduct of playing after forward pass or after a kick 1 insertion of words after the pass has n"en made n)-v ma.1eS it clear that players may interfere with one another until the pass is actually made. -O---