The New York herald., 1921-09-25

OF princeton. George Latham or Cali
fornia. Owen Reynolds of Georgia or
James Conway of East Stroudsbu'g Nor
NAL, h. IS to-day making an intensive
study Of the rules. He thinks. and right
fully thinks. that his perceptor In foot
pail has given him a more difficult les
son to learn than that assigned to him
by his professor Of mathematics. The
Football code, unfortunately, but neces-
Sarily. is voluminous and complex. Like
rolling SNOWFALL in motion season after
season for forty-six years, the football
code has annually increase in size ami
In intrscacy. The wise me.. of the rules
committec---for they are the wisest o.
their klnd--this autumn. however, have
made few changes in the rules.
Nevertheless. old fellow of the stands
and nresides. for moment you must
come TO school. Know you from now on
that II time expires during play which
terminates in a fair catch the kick
shall be allowed as heretofore. but only
the kick. The ball may not be run bacl.
oy opponents as an integral part Of the
play. This was the intention of the
prev'ous rule. 10 make the play COM
plete with the kick following a fair
catch. but some captains throughout the
country aggressiveiy insisted on being
permitted To include the run-back of the
pail. Further. III forward pass is ille-
gally made this fall the ball shall be
deemed as dead. This change is made TO
prevent the roughneSs in recovering the
ball and also to prevent the lapse OF
counted time. A third change provides
that If player shall be illegally in mo-
tion before the ball is put in play the
penalty of Ave yards will be measured
from the point where the ball was put in
play. This rule also is merely for clari-
fication and to do away with the con-
ions CantairlS that tho napa1ty
should be applied from the spot where
the foul was committed.
In past years spectators in the stand
have been unable to differentiate be-
tween a touch back and safety except
by n change In the score upon the board,
since after both plays the ball has been
put in play by the side making the
touch-back or safety upon their 20-yard
line. Hereafter team making a safety
will put the ball in play upon their 30
yard line, while play following a touch
back will start from the 2O-yard line.
thus indicating to the spectators the
nature OF the play, and also readjusting
the equities of play by giving a team
which has suffered an adverse score a
better start than a team which has suf-
fered merely touch-back.
Unnecessary Roughing.
Hereafter PLAYERS may not roughly
handle one another when the ball Is
dead out of bounds. or more Importance,
players no longer may throw, tackle
or roughly handle an adversary who
obviously is out Of the main action of
play. This, the most radical change of
all In the seasons crop of amendments.
will prevent the cutting down and bowl
ing over, the clipping" and Indianizing"
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men, which practices have characterized
the development of tactics In the past
1--WE years. Finally. a new rule gives to
the player who has made forward pass
the same protection against roughness
which for many years has been extended
TO the player who has made q kick. And
there you are.
The schedules of games arranged for
this fall is unprecedented and in
tensely attractive. Yesterday afternoon
for the first time in the annals of the
sport q single team met two opponents
in one afternoon. and there were two
instances of this phenomenon. At West
Point the Army met the elevens of the
New Hampshire State College and
Springfield Training School. At Cam
bridge Harvard encountered both Mid
d'ebury and Boston University. A sec
1nd feature OF stirring interest Is the
extraordinarily difficult schedules delib-
erately arranged for the four great
Eastern teams. Harvard, Pennsylvania.
Princeton and Yale. These schedules
provide continuous series OF fierce bat
ties. They have been designed on the
theory that such a schedule Is the best
preparation for a crucial struggle and
that IL an eleven seeking championship
honors cannot dispose of such a prelim-
mary schedule 1t Is not and otherwise
would not be strong enough to win its
chief encounter.
All four OF these schedules present
games in which Harvard, Pennsylvania.
Princeton and Yale run a fair chance of
being defeated In a preliminary game.
The third unusual feature in the sched-
ules OF this fall Is the large number of
intersectional battles. Yale will meet
North Carolina, Harvard will face Indi-
ana. Georgia and Center Princeton must
measure strength with Chicago: Dart
mouth will come in comparison with
Tennessee. Sentimentally Syracuse has
on its schedule n highly pleasing novelty.
This is a contest with McGiil University
OF Canada. Our Canadian brothers OF
4 the gridiron are most welcome. Nc
Gill's colors on our fields are not strange.
for II was McGill University which. by
a challenge TO Harvard In 1875 to play
E game of Rugby football. set IN motion
the fUlEUty iDSlllutlOU OF AMERICAN tu-
tcrcollegiate football. Our national game
originated In that primitive fray between
Harvard and McGill forty-seven years
ago.
A Few Possibilities.
The Army. as usual. provides another
intersectional game with Notre Dame.
The Army also viii contribute con-
spicuous feature to the season by invad-
ing Yale Bowl at New Haven. not only
with Its team but with It's FUN cadet
corps and military band. And now a
word to the unwary. Army may beat
Yale. Notre Dame may defeat Army.
Navy may conquer Princeton and Lafay-
otto may overthrow Pittsburgh and
Pennsylvania.
The season of 1921 presents to the
football public substantially the same
great coaches at the leading football In
stitutions. Robert Fisher again will bo
the directing intelligence az Harvard.
:. a. p. Jones NJ Yale; William w
Roper at Princeton. John Heisman at
Pennsylvania; Col Charles D. DAILY 1T
West Point: Robert Foliwell al Annap-
oils and Gilmour Dobie al Cornell The
same condition prevails NJ nearly all ~
the other colleges. The stan OF assist
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