The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-01
FOOTBALL RULES Z ARE PERFECT NOW
 BRlCKLEY THINKS

worcester, Mass, May 1.-Footba1l with it's present rules cannot be inn proved upon. and a captain of a biz varsity football team has too much on his shoulders during a season, in the opinion of Charles B. BrickIey, famous at Harvard as a football star. Brick1ey is opposed to any further changes in football rules, stating that he Believes from his experience that the game needs no revision.
 Br1ck1ey spoke freely on the pros pects for next season and the inside workings of the game. He said:
 fFootban as it stands to-day is in no need of improvement Including the new rulings on@the forward pass and the outside throw, I believe that the game now is as near perfection as it ever will be, and surely can't see from my experience as a player and captain where further changes are going to be made in order to improve conditions. Changes have been too numerous to help the game.
 'tJust as soon as varsity or scrub man becomes accustomed to the rules another set of changes are placed be- fore him to study and the result in the | end is disastrous. believe, to a | great extent, the backwardness of the game in smaller colleges in for
 mer years was due chiefly to the continual changes made in the rules. 1 Although Harvard did not depend en- tire1y or to any extent upon the for ward pass, I believe the late ruling on the forward throws will prove very beneficial to the game next season" ]" Brickleys put considerably stress on 1 the fact that he believes football
 captain of a big varsity eleven has too l much to do on a football field in the game of to-day. He explained his
 attitude on this matter by stating that | 43@~I<7 Fl, | everything on his shoulders The coach is in supreme command during the practice and in drilling the team, 1 but the minute the team steps on the field the direction of team is left en- Itire1y with the captain. He has to I carry the cares and worries of the team and also the instructions of his coach throughout the game. BrickleS believes that coaches should have
 more power.
 I The hero of many battle for liar l yard, whose name is known from coast
 to coast, like his chunn, Eddie Mahan is modest unasSun1ing young chap He carried the same old snaiIs which has often been snapped in a big ! game in his speech last night in The I A1hambra. While Harvard stldents
 as rule are not strong boosters fo1
 teams other than their own BrickleS
 did not hesitate in proclafniAg Dart
 mouth one of the best drilled teams 1T
 the country, also one of the hardes
 teams in the game to beat,
 While talking on past perfo frnance. of various football teams of the Coun try, Brick1ey declared Holy Cross foot ball team was one of the gamest mi nor college teams in the country, an6
 did not hesitate to state that the Fur
 pie college would do much better 1 it would stick to it's own class instea' of trying to play all of the big teams He believes that Holy Cross sched u1e of two years ago, when the Mt S1
 James lads played Princeton, Yale : West Point and Harvard, would haV : worn down the greatest team in tn world While on the Holy Cross sub : ject, the former Harvard captain
 praisetd Eddie Brawley, who used t
 praised Eddie Brawley in his hig
 school days, and is now captain of tn = Holy Cross football team. He spok particularly of the Purple captain e ability to get down the field on punti " Brickley declared that the Gam d bridge students would be represente .- by another great team next year. H
 proclaimed Coach Percy Haughto . as the greatest football coach in -2 country. Haughton's success to a large measure was not only his sys tenn, but his ability to get work out ( 7 his men. During his four years wit 3 the football team, Brick1ey. decls re :. that he never remembered getting call from Haughton. If anythin
 went wrong, 8, little qui < talk WE
 held, matters explained and no or
 felt the worse for the in dent.