Arizona republican., 1915-09-15

Believing that the baseball and kindred professional sports have monopolized the attention of the public long enough. the college men are Knocking at the door and waiting for an opportunity to introduce foot ball.
 Within a few days the pigskin will find itself being kicked around on several thousand gridirons by college men, school boys and others.
 Football practice will begin offic- ially at all the big universities of the east and middle west Sept. 15. This, however, will not bar the lead ing institutions from calling out a few of their candidates in advance of this date for a little extra work in the mountains or at the seashore Virtually all of the big universities of the east have gone on record as opposed to this extra preliminary work, but hardly one of them prac- tices what it breaches in this regard. Yale and Harvard for example, have made it a point to have the head coach meet a few of the men a week or more in advance of the formal opening of practice, and this year. Pennsylvania and Lafayette started work immediately after Labor day.
 The middle western universities are the only ones that really respect this rule. The colleges of the Intercol- legiafe Conference association are forbidden by a rule of the associa- ton from beginning preliminary practice before Sept 15 If there were such an association in the east it probably would have a similar rule. But there is none and nearly all these institutions feel that they are entitled to the extra practice if they can get it. Naturally none of them care for publicity.
 Rule Changes Eliminate Roughness
 Players and spectators will be obliged to acquaint themselves with certain changes in the rules They are not radical and for the most part are intended to eliminate or re- duce roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct. To this end the rule mak- CTS have decreed that after the ref eree's whistle stops the play no mem Der of the interference shall be all lowed to run into the secondary de- fense. nor will defensive players be permitted to run into a man after the whistle. This will stop a lot of unnecessary roughness. Last year. in particular, there were a good many injuries receivde in this man ner after the play was supposed to have stopped. The fullback. or pun ter receives further protection Here after when a man runs into the full back or punter preparing to kick his side. will be penalizcd fifteen yards If a player deliberately roughs the fullback his side is penalized fifteen yards and the offending payer is disqualified. Striking, kneeing, kick ing of player. as well as striking with the locked hands in the line are still punished by disqualification and half the distance to the goal.
 Within the last few years there has been much dissatisfaction found with teams which deliberately threw the forward pass out of bounds in stead of rislling a punt. Hereafter this becomes an incompleted forward pass. Another forward step taken to prevent roughness is a rule mak- ing it illegal for players to block an opponent by throwing the knees into the air or letting the leg strike a player above the knees. These are classed as unspOrtsmanlike conduct and are penalized by a loss of fi- teen yards.
 One Evil Remains
 There was one evil which the rules committee evidently lacked the nerve to tackle. Ever since team was permitted to remove a player and then send him back later this power hosed opponents, winning the fourth .z-l.4