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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Don't Change, but Clarity, Football Rules
Walter Camp Comm ents on Problems of 1914

| line shifts where one side of the line
walks In front OF the ball and in the
other teams territory in order to
eral places this has given rise to the
| bitterest feeling, even when actual
hostilities have not resulted on the
| field at the moment.
One team writes that three players
| of the other side would cross over
into the defending teams scrimmage
| territory, and that when the defend
ing team simply held their places the
| officials penalized them for interfer-
ing with putting the ball in play, and
| that when they moved back and gave
them their own territory i'm which to
| operate, part Of the territory which
| did not belong to the attacking side,
but to the defending side, 1t would be
too late for their men to get into po-
sition before the ball went into play
, The rules committee is asked by
| these various teams to pass a rule
that shifts should be made behind or
on the attacking teams scrimmage
| line.
| NJ OW, of course, II is difficult to
1
nous crowds that not only go to the
| big games, but are left out and are
demanding increased seating facili-
| ties, believe that many former play
ers write that they feel very strongly
that the game of football as at present
| played will become undressing to
the spectator and detrimental to the
| players.
! One man writes: Constant criti-
| 81 nd Il 80
which ! heard this fall by "a number
of players, and also by various grad
yates Of colleges, has led me to the
| belief that there is enough opinion at
| the present time which is dissatisfied
with the game so that If it were con-
centrated it would be big infiu-
| ence."
1t is doubtful if the lack of interest
in the game can be considered likely
to become marked with the present
craze. no matter what may be done
with the rules. In fact. the game has
such possibilities that all sorts OF al-
| terations might be made and produce
each kind Of game that would be
| playable and that crowds would wish
TO see, for, after all, the great point
is the interest and abandon with
which the game IS played.
lone other important suggestion,
~ and one that has been repeated
iy made to the committee. IS to lessen
somewhat the value Of possession Of
| the ball
The way that has been most gen
orally offered is TO render a tumble
J less expensive--that u.s. when the bail
| Is fumbled. the side I'm possession OF
! It at the time does not lose possession
| except on the fourth down. the FUN
! BILE merely amounting to a down
This. OF course. would introduce
! much Drawer passing, and more reck-
! lessness in attempting novel PLAYS,
and in this way would be OF consider
able benefit TO the game. and yet |
| doubt II players would ever feel that
such rule ought to be placed on the
! books.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

ktcker's men on-side, whether they
were ahead of the ball or the man
| when the ball was kicked.
This rule regarding the on-side
kick lasted for a few years, but it
brought in the expression "on-side
| kick" Hence, when comments were
| made this year about the reintroduc-
| ton of the on-side kick, many play
ers assumed that this rule had been
| brought back into force. This is not
| so, and the only on-side kick pos
| sible is the one wherein the player is
| behind the man when he kicks the
| ball. 1t may be necessary to put a
definition of this into the rules.
THERE are many suggestions for
! making the game more compli-
| Gated. Every effort should be turned
III another di1ection; that is, simpli-
flying it all possible. Most of the
methods of play and rules (thanks to
| their remaining nearly stationary for
a second season., now are fairly well
| understood by the players and the
spectator, and with the clearing up of
a few points like the above we should
have game that has a chance TO de-
velop along sound lines.
! We must. however, have the rules
enforced That was the rock upon
which the game came near being
wrecked formerly and no matter what
may be the object of those who are
obiecting to the return of the field
| judge. they must realize. if they wish
to see fair play, that. like the second
umpire in baseball, it is the only way
| to produce IL.
! Understand, do not at all refer to
o trivial of h,ato CT
-, inches off-side or any Of the minor
| points of the play. ] do mean that If
two teams have the proper amount of
! diversified attack there will be cases
| where, in order to rule fairly on the
| play and to see the points that are of
| Importance, Il field judge is necessary.
No men were better equipped In
! knowledge and experience, in integ
rity of purpose, and in ability to di-
| vide up work than those who officiat-
ed In several Of the big games last
season. and yet there were plenty of
| ca SEES of the most unwarranted in
fringement of rules, and infringement
| that meant q material difference In
the play, all 81 which went unnoticed
simply because the officials could not
cover the necessary points.
! THERE is going to be a great deal
Of talk about changing the for
ward pass. about limiting It by one
school. and increasing il by another
Several make the contention hat It is
too severe a penalty TO lose the ball
when a forward pass goes to the
| ground in the end zone. Others claim
| that some teams throw the forward
pass in preference 10 kicking the ball;
! ''. ~--'-'7e- - co th"t II crosses
' .-.- 49, ''-~ ..~' ,.ooe o,,t 80 No'r,'q
thus gaining with more accuracy the
OF pnen,s a1m running the ball
| back
| tain amount OF accuracy 70 put the
| bali cut of bounds at the proper place
, and distance and there is nothing
' unfair about the play. nor is there
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
By Walter Camp.

THIRST, let me preface this article
by saying it is not written to
suggest changes in football
rules, but rather in protective sense
to consider all the suggestions that
are likely to be made, and to ask that
the spectator and player be given
as little alteration TO master as may
be compatible with the welfare Of the
game.
1t has been the dream of the prac-
teal football player every year to let
the rules crystalline so that we would
get a permanent form and it would
not be necessary for a man to learn
a new manual every year, nor would
it impose upon the men who have
graduated two or three years the
sense and feeling of being more OF
| less out of it until somebody has eX-
planned to them what changes have
taken place in the rules since their
day
Tor the last three years, we have
L come more near this desirable
| crystalliZation than ever before, and
if the efforts of all reformers be
| limited to clearing up the difficult
points of the present rules, rather
than altering the style of play, il
is safe to say that spectators and
players for 1914 will be greatly re-
lieVed.
Moreover, there are enough minor
points-minor in the sense of affect
| ing the play-that need to be made
definite and also to be enforced to
give the rules committee and those
! who wish to help plenty to do. II
anyone wishes to experiment, LEI
| him take the rule regarding the plac-
| ing of the linemen on defense and
attack; namely, that one which for
| bids a guard or tackle, if dropped out
of the line, to run with the ball I'M
| less he goes five yards back.
Probably any one who knows any
| thing about football understands the
meaning of this rule, but how to word
| 1t so that a coach shall be free to
use his men as he pleases on defense
which is one of the traditions Of foot
| ball, and yet prevent him from TAX
ling advantage of this license to use
a big fellow to run with the ball, is
| a puzzle that has thus far been toe
much for the rule makers.
| A MOTHER point that was evident
"A ly somewhat misunderstood last
season was what is referred to gen.
orally among players as the "on-sidt
| kick"
Hundreds Of letters came to the
writer indicating. that players were
confounding comments on the rules
with the rules themselves. When
last year il was made lawful for q
| kicker 10 punt from point nearer
the scrimmage line than five yards
that legislation, of itself opened NJ
the possibility of the return Of the
| old fashioned on side kick. that Is
a kick so performed that men Of the
| kicker's side would be behind him
| when he kicked the ball.
II was not at all the on-side KICK OF
| three or four wears ago. That on
| side kick was Introduced by the rule
! which provided that when kicked
ball struck the ground it placed the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

any reason why it should not be used.
The most serious contention re-
| garding the forward pass is one that
came before the rules committee last
year, namely, the intentional throw
ing of the ball to the ground when
the would-be Passer is prevented from
getting off his pass, thus turning the
play into a incompleted pass, and in
stead of losing the distance that the
man has been forced back, the ball is
returned to the place where 1t was
put in play at the expense of a down.
1t looks as If II would be reason
able to rule against this play, but, on
| the other hand the effect of ruling
against 1t should be pretty carefully
considered. The temptation to try a
| forward pass Is undoubtedly increased
by this method of protecting II from
becoming a serious loss, hence the
rule, as II Is now. encourages for
ward passing. Again, 1t is going to
| be somewhat difficult to word a rule
| that will do exactly what is intended
in preventing this kind Of play and
| yet not be misconstrued under other
conditions. It will also be probably a
| greater burden on the officials to tell
whether 1t was q prevented forward
pass or tumble
w T. also shall hear again from
w those who wish to line the field
up into certain zones of scoring or
zones of playing, making it count a
| point to advance to the 30-yard line
| and some other points to advance to
| the 20-yard line, and so on.
| This Is an annually recurring prop
/ osition. The same is true OF divid-
ing the field into spaces for the pur-
I
stand in Il certain square. These are
! interesting in the study Of games, but
| are not likely to be seriously consid-
ered by the rules committee. and
hence can be passed over lightly.
FOR something like fifteen years n
discussion has waXed and waned
as to allowing a man to kick a goal
from a touchdown. Five or six years
ago IL was proposed that instead OF a
protection offered him for his free
| kick. he should be obliged to kick It
| by dropkick or kick from placement
| behind the line Of scrimmage. Those
| In favor of this proposition say that
II is much more Of team play and
| that every play in football ought to
be a team play. Then the opponents
! saw that you forget that good many
things are not team play in football,
and that a droplSicker has plenty of
| advantage now as an individual play :
err and you should not multiply that
advantage by giving the team that
has dropklcker a greater opportu-
nifty to turn goals into touchdowns
after IN" touchdown has been made.
| Furthermore plenty Of players are
familiar with the fact that It Is n
/ very delicate thing in goal from
scrimmage for officials to rule on
| holding IN the line or blocking back Of
| the line, and this difficulty would be
| multiplied once more.
| 7 HAVE received some very strong
letters from the South relative to
! the necessity Of action on the part of
the rules committee in the case Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
SIDELIGHTS
On Sports
BY A. H. c. Mitchell.

VIZ HETHER the Federal
wv League makes good or
not, it has had the effect
of boosting the salaries of many
players in organized baseball to
size in proportion to what they
can produce at the gate, and saw
ing many other players reductions
In pay, which the reserve clause
and lack of competition made it
possible to inflict. 1t has insured
the public in perennial tail-end
cities of a run for their money"
and disclosed to the same public
one of the reasons why their
respective teams are perennially
In the second division and play
indifferent baseball
WHILE we hear much talk
from the followers or the
organization magnates regarding
the "high salaries paid to play
ers because of organized base
ball. it is nevertheless a fact
that big league players, as a rule,
are paid below what they have
right to expect in return for
the money they bring in at the
gate or what they would bring
In at the gate If the owners and
managers were competent or
were not stupidity engaged in
milking the COW" or killing the
goose that lays the golden egg"
Several magnates in the big
leagues have, as a rule, been en-
gagged recently in this easy, de-
lightful and reactionarv occupa-
ton. Wherefore they have waxed
fat without expenditure of gray
matter and there has been a cor
responding failure to keep big
league baseball plants, as
whole, up to the standard which
the public has a right to ex-
pect.
WE see many magnates and
their press agents pointing
to what organized baseball has
done for so-and-so. 1T took
him out of a mine where he was
making 50 day and pays him
$4,000 a year for $50 games,"
they say, for instance Yet
grand opera takes the Carusos,
the Constantinos and their like
out of the blacksmith shops, the
barber shops and the streets and
pays them $500, $1,000 and even
$4,000 or more a night. The rail-
road takes the Hills, the Mellens.
the Elliotts and their like out of
offices, the shops and other
humble stations and gives them
$4,000 and 100000 year Jobs.
Steel takes the Carnegies out of
the telegraph stations and gives
them millions. Business every
where picks out the good men
from the bad and paws them for
the goods they deliver. 1t pays
for what 1t gets. Baseball has
not been doing IL. For every
miner at s. q day who gets
$1,000 a year In baseball, re-
member the thousands of ball
players who never get out OF
the minors
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Athletic Club Five
Meets Birmingham
Quintet Saturday

The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball
players will have chance to get re-
venge on the Birmingham quintet next
Saturday night when the two teams
clash. The local FIVE Travelled to Biz
mingham a few weeks ago and were
handed lacing. Saturday they will
be out to even the score and a good
game should be the result.
Joe Bean will start his players at
work tomorrow night and make q
strong effort to get them in the best
possible shape for the visitors
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

I HAVE received some very strong
letters from the South relative to
the necessity of action on the part OF
the rules committee in the case OF
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

VIZ HETHER the Federal
wv League makes good or
not, 1t has had the effect
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Doc Gessler Fails
To Sign Birdie Cree

.StNBURY. PA. Feb 2.-Indications
Ire very strong that Birdie Cree will
re- e back with the Yankees when the
stason opens in April. Doc Gessler,
manager of the Pittsburr Federals'
cSoeht several hours in conference with
rec here in the hope of inducing him
--,.,l lump to the outlaws. but he met
~, 70 success. Cree recently was Of
srsd 1000 by the Yankee management
signed 'o'' Ou' ne hasi
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
NEW RECORD SET.

Ell PASO. TEXAS, Feb. 2.-James
clipped one-1fth OF second off the
worlds record time for three and one
half furlongs yesterday at the Juarez
race track. running the distance in
:39 1-5. The former track record was
held by Calisse, a Texas bred mare.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Go
Postponed to Feb. 8

TROY. n. y, Feb THE scheduled
ten-round contest between lin Flynn
and Battling Levinsky. set fdf tonight
has been postponed until February 9
Flynn reported this morning that he is
too sick TO fight.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Sox and Giants in
Extra Inning Draw
Special Cable 10 The Atlanta osnrnlan

Special Gable TO The Atlanta Georgian.
CAIRO, EGYPT. Feb. 1.-The Khe-
dive witnessed a baseball game at the
Heliopolis Sporting Club grounds yes
terday between the New York Giants
and the Chicago White Sox. The game
was played here. at the Khedive's spe-
cial request. and ended to 3, despite
extra innings.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-19

are superior to the scrub from the
standpoint of production, but the ma
jority are. Some of our breeds Of
swine have been selected and bred
with this particular end in view for
upward of century. And the princi-
pal breeds are old enough to be very
prepotent.
Perhaps the second greatest factor in
favor Of the pure bred is the certainty
that excellence will occur. The sire is
generally more than half the herd.
Most breeders pay more heed to the Sc
lection of the right kind Of herd boar
than the selection of the females to
breed to them. More Improvement can
be brought about by the use of a right
kind of boar than in any other way.
If you use a boar of quality with un-
derstanding you need have no fear Of
the results. As breeder l am often
asked, "Do you advise cross breeds or,
as termed by some, cross breedingT
In answer to this all important ques-
ton | will state there is absolutely
nothing to be gained, but everything to
be lost. Therefore my advice is, what
ever breed of swine you keep, maintain
and perpetuate 1t in Its purity.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-19
LAMBS ON RANGE.
Careful Herding Means Difference Be-
tween Profit and Loss.

Careful Herding Means Difference Be-
tween Profit and Loss.
There is right and wrong way even
in the matter Of eating grass.
On the national forest sheep ranges
two bands of lambs of equal weight,
breeding and general conditions were
handled as follows: One band was
herded In the usual way, the herder
letting the lambs choose largely where
they should pasture on the range. The
other band was herded on portions Of
the range where the various grasses
and herbage were developed to just the
right stage of growth. The latter plan
Of handling the lambs resulted In
saving of feed from trampling and
close'cropping where the feed was the
most toothsome.
The result was that the lambs made
to feed when and where the herder
desired weighed an average Of five
pounds each more at the end of the
season than those allowed to range at
will. On flock Of 1000 or 5000 lambs
the gain from scientific handling of
the lambs would be over $1,000 for the
season.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-19

possible to bring the cow to a larger
flow of milk.
Care must be exercised after the cow
has closely approached the limit of the
amount of food she can consume with
out hurting herself in twenty-four
hours, and by no means at that time
should the ration be increased more
rapidly than one-half pound every 9TH
er day.
Every COW has two limits-namely,
the limit of her capacity and the limit
of her ability. The limit of her ca
pacity signifies the amount of food
she can consume in twenty-four hours.
The limit Of her ability signifies the
amount Of milk she is capable of CIV
ing in twenty-four hours. Wise feed
ers do not try to reach the limit of a
cows capacity, but strive to provide
her with just as much feed as is nee
essary to stimulate her to work to the
limit of her ability. There is no way
of determining this other than by
weighing the feed and weighing the
milk After the COW has reached the
limit Of her ability to yield milk the
feeder needs to change her ration from
time to time both in character and
amount in order that the COW keeps in
good working condition and produces
her maximum amount of milk
If it be noted that the cow is pro-
ducing large flow of milk and be-
coming thin in flesh, then 1t Is neces-
sary to add carbohydrates to the ration
In substitution for some of the protein
food. Carbonaceous foods are as fol-
lows: Ground corn. hominy feed. corn
silage and barley. On the other hand,
If the COW seems to be laying fat upon
her body at the expense Of the milk
pail, then it is advisable to substitute
for portion Of the carbonaceous
foods those rich in protein, such as
gluten feed, oil meal, bran and ground
oats.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-19
SUMMONS.

In the Circuit Court of the State OF
Oregon for Polk County.
H. L. Crider, Plaintiff, VS.. the un-
known heirs of John D. Osborn, de-
ceased, and all other persons or par
ties unknown claiming any right, title,
estate, lien or interest in the real es-
tate described in the complaint here
in, Defendants.
To the unknown heirs of John D.
Osborn, deceased, and all other per-
sons or parties unknown claiming any
right, title, estate, lien or interest
in the real estate described in the COM
plant herein, the above named defend
ants. In the name of the State Of
Oregon: You and each of you are
hereby required to appear and answer
the complaint filed against you in the
above named court and cause on or
before six weeks from the date Of the
first publication of this summons, and
if you fail so to appear and answer
for want thereof the plaintiff will ap-
ply to the court for the relief prayed
for in his complaint herein, to-wit:
That plaintiff is the owner in fee of
the following described real premises,
to-wit: Notification No. 5419, Claim
No. 81, being part of Section 33 in
Township 9 South Of Range 6 West
of the Willamette Meridian in Polk
County, Oregon, beginning at the
Northwest corner of the Northeast
quarter of said Section SO, thence
North SO degrees SO minutes West
1850 chains; thence South $3.50
chains; thence East 1893 chains
thence North 54.57 chains; thence
West 11.81 chains; thence North 14.91
chains; thence North SO degrees So
minutes West 1868 chains to the place
Of beginning and containing 322 acres
more or less, and that you and each
Of you be by said decree forever bar
red and enjoined from claiming any
right, title or interest of, in or to
said real premises of any part or por-
ion thereof. This summons is pub
ished for a period of six weeks by
IN order of the Hon. Webster Holmes,
made at chambers at Tillamook City,
Oregon, on the 2Sth day of April,
A. D., 1914, and the date of the first
publication is May 5th, 1914, and the
late of the last publication will be
Tune 10th, 1914.
SIBLEY & EAKIN,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
lay 5-June 16.