Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-30
NO MATERIAL CHANGES
 IN FOOTBALL RULES
Collegiate Athletic Association Holds
 Ninth Annual Meeting.

Chicago. Dec. 29.-There is little likelihood of any important change being made in the football rules for next season. according to opinion ex- pressed here today at the ninth am nUaI convention of the Collegiate Ath- letic association Minor changes in football rules made last year were in- ciuded in the report of the football committee, presented by Dr. Fl. L. Williams of Minnesota, but no sugges- ton of material change in the rules next year was made and the general belief of the many college men pres ent was that no important changes would be made when the college foot ball rules committee meets next Feb ruary.
 Waiter Camp of Yale attended the Conference and discounted any idea of material change in the football rules.
 The present rules have developed a game which allows full scope for individual excellence in the players, 7 he said They are well understood by the public. they are thoroughly un- derstood by the players and the sport detail. Under those circumstances there seems to me to be no good req son for any material change"
 The report of the committee on foot ball fatalities, showing that only one of the thirteen deaths charged to foot Ddll LnS past eur WAS O1 d U college player was accepted, but the recommendation of the committee that 1t be discharged from further constd- eration was disregarded. Instead, the executive committee was empowered to consider the advisability of extend- ing the work of the fatalities commit tee to include deaths from all forms of sports, including hunting, canoeing, swimming baseball and skating. so that a definite defense might be made to the charge that football is a brutal sport.
 Reports from the basketball and track rules committee were read and it was decided to publish basketball and track rules and also to formulate swimming meet rules. An apprecia- tion of the strides which Rugby foot ball has been making to popularity on the Pacific coast was contained in a paper from pr. Frank Angell. chair man of the faculty athletic commit tee of Leland Stanford university. Dr. Angell wrote:
 T should be ungrateful if l did not acknowledge the service which the British colonial teams have rendered us, not only in popularizing the game of football, but in demonstrating it as sport for sports sake. I recall to mind in their personnel firemen, col lege students and small farmers. Through their tours of California, no less than in the return visits of the CaIifornians to the Antipodes, New Zealand and British Columbia we have been shown football played for the love of the game. Incidentally, through a profuse and generous hos pitality, the colonial teams have shown us the value of the social amenities in promoting a sportsmanlike spirit in match games"
 Concerning amateur baseball on the coast, pr. AngelPs letter said:
 Baseball here maintains its position at the foot of the list of sports in manners and morals, with a discour- aging persistency. We have not. in deed, developed that refined product of near amateurism' known as the sum mer hotel player. fear, however. this cannot be attributed to our superior virtue but to the scarcity of big sum- mer hotels in California