Arizona republican., 1914-09-19
FIRST P|GSK|N
 CONTEST TODAY
Official Lid on Football Lifted With Several Try
 out Games New Rules
 Make Some Changes - Three New Big Stadiums

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Football appears on the athletic stage today to formally open the fall season of sport at the American colleges. Teams that have been engaged in preliminary practice are about to come together for the first battles of 1914, and from now until Thanks giving a great army of young col lege athletes will proceed about the business of battling on the gridiron so as to add more honor and glo'y to their alma matters.
 The Carlisle Indians-alWays one ct the first of the more important teams to get into action - prys off the lid today with game with Al bright at Carlisle Pa. Another col lege team to open it's season today is that of the University of Maine, which plays Fort Mckinley at Orono, Me. Cornell will be the next big team to get into action, meeting Ursinus at Ithaca next Wednesday. on the same day Carlisle will play it's second game, lining up against Lebanon valley on the Indians grid ion.
 Next Saturday will see practically all of the more important elevens in the east in their opening contests of the season. Harvard will take on Bates on Soldiers Field, with only two weeks of practice and sitting of candidates. Yale meets the Uni Versity of Maine at New Haven, while Princeton will play it's initial contest with Rutgers. Pennsylvania will open with Gettysburg at Frank lin Field. Cornell will meet the dan gerous Pittsburg team Dartmouth will have it's first contest at Han over with the Massachusetts Aggies. while Brown will meet Norwich at Providence. Of the New England teams Amherst and BoWdoin play at Amherst. Holy Cross and Colby open at Worcester, Tufts starts at Medford with New Hampshire State and Will Hams takes on Rensselaer, Polytech- Tie Institute at Williamstown.
 Three of the big eastern universi- ties are erecting new stadiums fO- football and other purposes and two of these will be ready for the final championship contests of the season. These are the great Bowl" at New Haven, unique among structures erected in this country for college athletics and which will accommodate about 70,0o0 and will be ready for the Harvard Yale game on Nov 24 and the Palmer Memorial Stadium at Princeton, which will be used for the first time when Yale meets the Tigers on Nov. r. Cornell has started work on a new football and track field on the campus, but this will not be ready for the eleven this year, although it is now expected that all of the gridiron contests of 1915 will be played there and that the seating capacity will be 9O,O0O, which will be ample for many years to come.
 For the first time in a number of years the coaches have been able tc get down to the work of develop ing their candidates and planning cut their formations for the season at the very start. There have been very few changes in the rules this year to require a. lot of experiment. ing throughout the season. These changes have been mostly in inter pretation of the rules and such direct alterations as have been made will in no way affect the general scheme of football as it has been gradually evolved. Briefly the changes are as follows:
 No one will be allowed to wall; up and down the side lines.
 A free kick hitting the goal post and bounding back into the field ol play becomes automatically a touch back.
 The field judge is restored, at the option of the opposing teams
 The words running into the full back after the kick" have beer changed to "roughing the kicker etc.
 A rule is added penalizing a mar who rOughs the thrower of a forward pass.
 A forward pass that goes out o bounds either on a fly direct O after being touched by an eligibl player of either side goes to the op pCnents.
 
 the end zone, regardless of the posi- tion of his hands and the ball, mus have both his feet within the en line O. side line to make the cate legal.
 After a touchback or a safety tn ball always must be scrimmaged O the 20-yard line.
 A 10-yard penalty, measured fror where the ball was put in play, imposed against any man intention ally grounding a forward pass.
 In the case of a player out ( bounds when the ball was put l play, the play is not made ove again, but a five yard penalty eXacted.
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