The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-01
EXPECT FEW CHANGES
IN FOOTBALL RULES
Committee Will Recommend Nothing Drastic at February
Meetng-Naughon Delivers Interesting Lecture
Gridron Sport-Report Big Surprise. N

likelihood OF any important chAua0z
being made in the-footbalI rules fnfs
next season. according TO opinion exessa
pressed here today at the ninth axs~
nual convention Of the Coilegiate Afh@ss
1etic Association. Minor changes i1s
football rules made last year were tM-S
lcluded in the report OF the footh4Hsx
committee, presented by DIR. III. TOM
Williams. of Minnesota. but no 9u15<
gestion Of material change In the
rules next year was made and the rene
eral belief of the many college memI
present was that no important chanGGUS;
would be made when the college fo0t~s
ball rules committee meets uexca
February. @S-s
Walter Camp. OF Yale, attended tho
conference and discounted any idea ~
material change in the football rul91
The present rules have DEVELOPER
a game which allows full scope for In
divdual excellence in the player 6o8
said. They are well understood ~
the public. they are thoroughly under
stood by the players and the spOrt1nef
writer's have grasped their every d.
tail. Under these circumstances there
seems to me to be no good reason &0&@
any material change" #
/ The report of the committees S4S
football fatalities, showing that onlY
one Of the thirteen deaths charged III
trained college player, was accepta<
but the recommendation Of the conn
mittee that 1t be discharged from fux4N
ther consideration was disregardo93
Instead, the Executive Committee WA4s
empowered 20 consider the advfsabffs
ity of extending the work of the fata1&
tiles committee to include deaths frrl8
all forms Of sport, including hunting
canoeing. swimming, baseball AnGfs
skating. 40 that a definite de6ou1o
might be made to the charge that
football Is brutal sport.
Reports from the basketball AnA
track rules committees were read and
it was decided to publish basketbaIe
and track rules and also to formulat4s
winning meet rules. s3
An appreciation of the strides
} which Rugby football has been MAKE
ing to popularity on the Pacific Coast
was contained in a paper from DR..
J Frank Angel. chairman of the faculty
, athletic committee OF Leland STAN
} ford University. Dr. Angel wrote:
II should be ungrateful II did not
4 acknowledge the service which TIL
British colonial teams have rendered.
|. us, not only in popularizing the gamA
OF football but in demonstrating Il -
ia sport for sports sake. I recall ~
mind in their personnel. firemen. col
,1ege students and small farmers
} Through their tours of California. ~
v
, fCalifornians tc the Antipodes, New
! Zealand ami British Columbia, 49,
have been shown football played for
the love of the game. Incidenta11Y.
. Ethrough profuse and generous hos
Ipitality. the colonial teams have
shown us the value Of the sOcikks
!. amenities in promoting a sportsmAn@
like spirit in match games"
Concerning amateur baseball on the
Coast, DR.. Angels letter said:
Baseball here maintains its position
at the foot OF the list OF sports III
manners and morals. with discour-
aging persistency. We have not, In
deed. developed that refined product
Of near amateur.sm' known az the
summer hotel player. I fear, how
ever, this cannot be attributed to our
superior virtue, but the scarcity O1
big summer hotels in California;
Instead OF taking a football player
and teaching him intelligence AZ used
to be the practice, we now take an
intelligent student and teach him
football" said Percy D. Haughton.
head coach OF the Harvard football
team.
Formerly weight below the head
was an Indispensable quality IA
. football player he continued. NOW
the college football player is = man
OF average weight, active body and
specially active mind, and the lessons
the game teaches, LESSONS Of self-sac-s
, rifice. obedience and. above all, pro-
paredness, are being recognized otIs
, the campus as we'll as the final gau1oT
! IN each college contest"
. Other speakers emphasized the NJ.
cessity Of giving educational value to-
athletics and the advisabilfty OF ex4I
, tending athletic training to every stu.#
dent instead Of centering attention On.
! few.
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