Bisbee daily review., 1915-09-16

Believing that the baseball and
kindred professional sports have mon
opolized the attention of the public
long enough the college men are
knocking at the door and waiting for
an opportunity to introduce football
Within a few days the pigskin viii
find itself being kicked around on
several thousand gridirons by college
men, school boys and others.
Football practice began official
ly at all the big universities of the
east and middle west Sept Is. This
however, did not bar the leading in
stitutions from calling out a few of
their candidates fin advance of this
date for a little extra work I'm the
maintains of at the seashore. Vir-
tually all of the big universities of
the east have gone on record as OPP
posed to this extra preliminary work,
but hardly one of them practices
what it breaches in this regard. Yale
and Harvard, for example, have made
10 a point to have the head coach
meet few of the men week or
more i'm advance OF the formal open
ing of practice, and this year Penn
sylvania 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 Inter
collegiate Conference association are
forbidden by a rule of the association
from beginning preliminary practice
! before Sept Is. If there were such
an association in the east it probably
would have a similar rule. But there
is none and nearly all of these insti
tutions feel that they are entitled to
| the extra practice of they can get it,
Naturally none of them care for pub
licity.
Rule Changes Eliminate Rouqhness
/ Players and spectators will be
abliged to acquaint themselves with
certain changes in the rules They
/ are not radical and for the most par
are intended to eliminate or reduc,
roughness and unsportmaniike con
duct To this end the rule makers
have decreed that after the refereel
whistle stops the play no members
Of the Interference shall be allowed t,
! run into secondary defense, nor viii
defensive players be permitted to run
into a man after the whistle Thi
viii stop a lot of unnecessary rough
ness Last year, in particular, Their
were a good many injuries receives
i'm this manner after the play was suE
posed to have stopped. The ullbacI
or punter, receives further protection
Hereafter when a man runs into tn
fullback or punter preparing to kic
his side will be penalized fifteen yard.
II a player deliberately roughs tn
nlback his side is penalized tiftee
yards and the offending player is dis
qualified. Striking kneeing, kickIn
of a player as well as striking wit
the locked hands in the line are sti
punished by disqualification and hal
the distance 10 the goal.
Within the last few years there ha
been much dissatisfaction found wit
teams which deliberately threw TIN
forward pass out of bounds instead
risking a punt Hereafter this b.
comes an incompleted forward pas
Another forward step taken to pr
vent roughness is a rule making
illegal for players to block an oppol
ent by throwing the knees into the al
or letting the leg strike a playe
above the knees. These are classe
as understandable conduct and al
penalized by a loss Of fifteen yards
One Evil Remains.
There was one evil which the rule