New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
Are Adopted by Y. M. c. A.
in Preference to the A.
A. u. Regulations.
CODE REVISED TO
REDUCE ROUGHNESS
Running with Ball Will Be More
Easily Detected Extra Rest
Periods Ordered.

Or Joseph r. Raycroft. Of Princeton,
chairman of the basketball rules com
mittee OF the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association. announced Yesterday
that he had received definite assurance
from the athletic committee Of the
Young Mems Christian Association
that all Y. ". &. A. basketball games
in the future viii be PLAYED under col
lege rules. Heretofore the \. VI. {. A.
teams have PLAYED under A. A. |. rules.
hut the ! VI. {. a. committee decided
that the A. a. L. rules were unprogres-
sive. and asked permission to send rep
TcsentatIves 20 the meetings OF the
college rules committee.
According TO DR.. Raycroft this &C
ton on the part OF the Y. N. {. A. au-
thorities is the greatest recommends
ton that the college game has ever re-
ceived. and he believes that in the next
FIVE wears IL will supplant entirely the
A. A. |. rules.
Including professional PLAYERS. Dr..
Ravcroft has estimated that basketball
is PLAYED bv more persons than any
other sport i'm the United States, with
the single exception Of baseball. II is
significant. he said Yesterday, that the
combined sale Of the collegiate. A. A.
L. and professional basketball guides
falls only a trfe under the sale OF
baseball guides
As result OF answers received to
QUESTIONABLE sent 10 more than five
hundred colleges. and discussions held
by the rules committee. it was decided
a. q meeting held i'm New York last
week 10 make only a few changes IN
the rules of the college game for next
year.
Several changes. especially one with
reference 10 running with the ball, Will
have a revolutionary effect. but most
Of the revisions are rehnements in
the code, and every change has been
made with the view of eliminating
rough play from the game.
With the intention Of having the
Jules extended 20 secondary schools.
the committee viii incorporate in its
look NEXT year recommendation that
tVO-minUte INTERIM ssIon: be taken in
the middle Of each half. This was tried
In the collegiate game several years
ego. but was abandoned when II was
found to be unnecessary. With school
teams, however. the committee thinks
that the two minutes res. Is necessary.
The comm ttee constituted each of
JUS members a committee Of one in
charge Of a district whose duty will be
20 have the college rules played by
school teams within his territory. and
also 20 report on the suggestions
cmanatine from those districts.
Dr. James Naismith. Of the Univer-
eity OF Kansas. the inventor of basket
ball. is assigned to west Of the Mssis-
sippi; l.. W. 81. John has the district
from the Alleghanies 10 the Missis-
sippi; Oswald Tower, Of Williams. has
New England; Ralph Morgan. Of Penn
sylvania. the Metropolitan district, and
Lorlys Prentice. of Lawrenceville. the
Southern district. Il is the general
committees expectation that each of
the committeeman will 90 missionary
work in spreading the college rules.
By the rules which have been
adopted for 1915 running with the ball
will be more easy to detect than un-
der the present code. Under this rule
q player who is standing when he re
Ccives the ball may make one step in
starting q dribble or passing, but the
ball must leave his hands before he
can lift his second foot from the
ground
The committee has also ruled that
when a third player charges the man
with the ball and makes bodily con
tact with him p foul shap be called on
mis- team. Heretofore it mas been next
30 impossible 20 call a foul for having
q third man in the scrimmage unless
the third man actually attempted TO
get the ball
AHule permitting a player to return
once 70 the game after he has been
taken out unless he has been barred
by disqualification was introduced, but