Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-11
LOCAL FOOTBALL
OFFICIALS WILL
ANALYZE CODE
Gathering Scheduled for
Next Tuesday Evening
at Walton Hotel
FIRST SUCH M E + T | N G
Bv ROBERT w. MAXWELL


Football officials in and near Philadcl-
phia will meet at the Hotel Walton next
Tuesday evening at p. m, to discuss the
intricate rulings which came up on the
field last season. and offer suggestions
to simplify the code next year. All of
the suggestions will be sent to the Rules
Committee, which meets in New York
in few weeks.
This is the first time the Philadelphia
nrhitcrs have gathered to talk over the
happenings Of the football season. and no
doubt many valuable suggestions will be
offered. Unusual plays constantly are
occurring on the Eridiron, and the officials
are better able to discuss them now while
the sub lect is fresh in their minds. No
tices have been sent to all Of the Central
Board officials, but all of the football men
In the city are invited to attend.
The Cornell football schedule for 1916
announced last night, sets at rest the
rumors that the lthacans would arrange
games with some Western college next
fall The University of Nebraska tried
hard to get n game. but the colleges are
too far apart to even consider it. ober-
lin will assist in the curtain raiser on
September 30, and Harvard Will be given
chance to get revenge on October y.
After the terrible scare and marrow
eSCaDp nt the nalluS ol NtSlllIlSAOll anu
Lee this fall the Southerners are dropped
from the list. 1t will be remembered that
the Generals scored three touChdowns
before Cornell knew what happened, and
1t was only after the hardest kind of
work that Coach Sharpe's men were able
to win the game.
WASHINGTON and Lee will play Wash
ington and jefferson in Richmond, Va.
on November Is. This will he the 'irst
meeting between the colleges, and the
game should be interesting. Washington
and Lee has risen in the foothal Wofla
since Walter b. Elcock, the old Dart
mouth star, has been coaching the team,
and is now classed among the best in
the country.
Elcock PROBABLY will be unable to re-
turn next year, as his business in lhlla-
delphia is taking up most of his time. n
petition is being circulated among the
students and alumni urging him to come
back for at least one more year.
The first football game in 1916 will be
staged in Pasadena, Cal, on January !,
when Brown clashes with Washington
State College. II will be another meet
ing between the East and the West, and
Brown will travel six days across the
continent 10 uphold the prestige of our
section,
Dick Harlow made suSa success OF
his coaching at Penn State this fall that
he has been offered a two-year contract
by the athletic committee 1t is seldom
that a coach of a big college team makes
good in his first year, but Harllw upset
all precedent
Willie Heston, the famous Michigan
halfback, told the secret of the Wolver-
ines poor showing on the gridiron this
fall at an alumni smoker in Chicago a
few days ago. According to Heston the
alumni are responsible. Failure to use
proper methods in attracting budding
gridiron talent to Ann Arbor, he said, had
more to do with the defeats than any
thing else.
Now comes the question: whaddaya
mean, proper methods'2