Arizona republican., 1913-09-24
FOOTBALL |S
 SIMPLER NOW
No Radical Rule Changes This Season Make Game Easier. to Learn; Con sidered Perfect In It's Present Development.

Now that the thud of the cleated boot against the taut plSSkln mas pe- gun to resound in the lana, IL Is lilhe to look to the cases of rules Tor the intercollegiate and interschool game o1 footbau Thanks to the agitation over 1 the ruthless work of the rules coHl- mittee year before last, the laws Of the strenuous game stand this year Just about as they did last, and those Who played in the 1912 season need bother their heads little over new and per pleXing regulations in the colnlhS weeks.
 There are only a few changes in the rules this year and none of these are radical The rules committee has de- cided that the game is as near perfect under the present code as It can De made. Thus it is reasonable to believe that a faster brand of football will be seen all over the country this year. The fact that the players will have no new rules of importance to learn should help a great deal for the time that was consumed in former seasons in learning new features of the game, made necessary by new rules, will not be wasted this season and the players and coaches can devote all of their time to perfecting team work. Under the new rules a player who has been taken out of tine game can 1 be returned to the lineup in any sub sequent period or at any time during the last quarter. In many games mum 1 erOus substitutiOns are necessary in i the last period and the committee saw ! no reason why d substitution should not be made at any time during the final period as well as at it's beginning l Section 3. rule 1. which pertains to l the penalty inflicted upon q team that 1 fails 10 appear two minutes after the 1 referee has blown his whistle to start 1 the second half has been made clearer 1 by stating just where the ball is to 1 be put in play after a twentY-five-ya yard | penalty
 i The portion of the rules which has | to do with the forward pass remains l the same except here and there the l committee has placed certain emphasis l by the use of italics
 1 The rule relating to the forward pass 1 or kick made behind the goal line has 1 been made clearer: and that pertaining | to the dropping back of linemen has l also been modified by changing the 1 wording. the spirit remaining the same. In case the punter attempts to draw 1 the opponents off side by feinting with l his hands the referee is not allowed l to permit him to kick the ball until the opposing side has had time to re turn behind the restraining line. In the case of a forward pass or after d kick. the insertion Of the words after the pass has been made make it evi- l dent that players may interfere with l one another until the pass is executed. This point has been somewhat vague
 in the last two seasons, and this inser- ton is of importance from the offi- l cial's standpoint
 The most notable alteration. and that l which will have no little effect upon 1 the play is that concerning the pun l ter This years ruling gives him the 1 privilege of kicking the ball from any
 point behind the line of scrimmage:
 whereas last season he could stand not l less than five yards back.
 l The latter will no doubt reiuvenate
 some of the old quick kicks from vari- ous fake formations This style of at.
 tack is a difficult one to cheek unless
 an eleven has men who are absolutely
 safe in handling short, wabbly punts
 The short kick will make the game
 more open than ever. When this style Of kick is used in the region of the | twenty or twenty-five yard line when
 the ball drops in the vicinity of the op- ponents goal line, it requires a cool l heady player to handle the punt: as
 huff in many cases means a sure 1 touchdown