Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-09-20
FOOTBALL SEASON
APPEARS ON STAGE
AFTER WEEk> OF GRt BLING
PRACTICE COLLEGE TEAMS
WILL soon CLASH

NEW YORK. Sept DO Football
appears ON tho athletic stage today
90 formally open the faI. season OF
sport 40 the American colleges
Teams thar have been engaged Boo
preliminary practice are abQu' 90
come together for the Hrai battle.
OF 1914 and from Hop until
Thanksgiving great army af young
college athlete Hll proceed about
the blsi.ess of battling 0u tbc grid
iron s0 as 10 add more honor aaI
glory t0 their alma matters
The Carlisle IGf'in always one
of the ur.t 0f fhe more important
teams 10 get into action prys on
the BOD today Uith O. game with Al
bright 30 Carlisle pa Another
college team 90 open .ts season TO-
day BE- That OF tha University OF
Maine which plays Fort Mckinley
40 Orouo. BE Cornell 700 be- the
next big team ~ get into action.
meeting lriuus go ithaca ueA, Wed
nesday ON the same day Carlisle
viii play n. serUAl game. lining up
against Lebanon valley 0n the lu
dians eridirou
Next Saturday Rill see practically
aN of tho more important oleycus
iu the east BOO their opening con
tests Ot the season Harvard VIII
take Ou Bates ON Soldiers Field
with only two weeks of practice and
sitting of candidates Yale meet
The University pf Maine a' Nev Ua
Won. while Princeton viI play its
Initial contest with Rutgors PENN
sflgauia win opeJ Win Gettysburg
40 Franklin Field Cornell viii meet
. be- dangerous pittshurr team. Darts
mouth viii have its first r0ntc.t "a
Hanover with tho Massachusetts Az
gics. while Brown sin meet N0ra .ch
~ PROV dcnrn or fhp New EuEiaul
tonm Amherst aud BIwloin play
~ Amherst Holy Cross aad Colby
open at WorChcster Tuif# .tarfa OF
Mci'nrd with Nov Hampshire State
and Williams t1Eos ON Rem .laDr
Polytechnic Institute 90 Williams
town
Three of fho b.u eastern uu.ler.-
tics lro erecting new .Iduu# for
football and other purposes and
two 0f these viii ho ready for the
hual championship contests or the
season These are the rr.1t Bowl"
az Sew HlsoH. unique among .trur-
lures erected in tHi. country for COLI
loLe athletics and which will ac-
rDWWolaie about 10000 aud viii
bee ready for tho Harwrd- Yale game
on Nov a. and the Palmer Mem
drill Stadium at Princeton. which
VIII be- used for the FIRST time when
Vale meets the Tigers on Nov ~.
Cornell has started work ON new
football and track field ca the came
uus bat this will uoi hc ready for
tle elryon thif year. although % is .
now cknnricd that 400 off the grid f.
iron contests OF 1915 will De PLAYED .
there and that the seating capacity .
VIII ho 10000. which viii Ln am
pie for many years 90 come
For the lr time u number .
of years fH. coaches Irt, hrf able .
90 lot down tO the work I'd. develop
ing their candidates and planning
1u' fHHir formations f.r tir season .
100 the vert start There have been .
F"TE 'rW chlul'. IH the rule. IHi-
voar 90 require lot o, experiment
.uE throughout rho season These
changes have been mostly Iuterp7o.
'u'1us uf the rules and such direct /.
alteration. 90. have been made viii
.u up aHr affect the general scheme
1f football a- 10 has bogu gradually T.
evolved Briefly tho changes ar, as
I0ll0U-.
so ono V.II b.. allowed Co Vaik up
and down OH. side lines
s free k,Dk hitting tho ru.l post
and bounding back into tho field OF
play becomes automatically o. touch
back
The 0oII judge restored. 90 tu..
piinH of iHD uppnsIuI team.
The words running iu'n ttr uU /.
back after the Firk ha,. been
changed f0 ruuslIug th, Kicker
PEE
A rule is added poutI.zfup MAJ.
81 ho rnughs tGc thruvor OF for
ward pass
4 forward pass that cOs. ont CO., 4
bounds either ou ny direct or a. /.
ior being Touched by au eligible {,
player OF either side goes 20 Che op- {,
ioncuts
The receiver of forward pas, o. I
De end zone rorlrdIcss %. fhe posi-
ion of DIS hand and tho ball. must f.,
nave bo'h feet Within the end Hne
pr side line to make tho catch Ie
.al
After tnuchhark ur safety thr
.ull always must be- sor.mm8gad ON
he Z0-vsri luo
3 ln-lHrd penalty measured
rom where the bail was put Boo play
. imposed against any man inteu-
ionally gr0uudiuL forward mass :
lu the ease ol o. PLAYER out OF
0unds when fhc ball was put ODD }
LAY. the pHa, b. Hof made over
gain bat % ny'tar1 penalty is ga
rfed