New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Football Rules
Board Makes
Minor Changes
Pigskin To Be Brought On,
Thirty Yards, Instead
of Twenty, on Safety

Football fans who were apprches.-.
that the rules of their fayorite s.-s
were to be revised beyond recorn;i;o,
have no longer any cause for als~u
The rules committee ended its snn..,
session at the Hotel Biltmore ve..s.
day, after several hours of di;cnss,o,
without having made single cbany.
that will materially affect the game
The only ruling that was changed ;.
any extent was that which deals ait,
the safety. In future the bali will h.
brought to the 30-yard line, instead =,
the 20yard line, after play of III.
kind has made. Another innov.
ton has to do with officials cautionr,
players. They arc still allowed 70 wsrn
against the tendency to get oFslde bu,
cannot stop an illegal substitution ~
an illegal formation, but must allow
the play to go on and then inflict tn.
penalty for the infract;oa.
Most of the other changes u,a,.
merely technical ones for the purposs
of clarifying or Interpreting proneriv
the, already existing rules. None Of ths
more radical changes in the code that
have been agitated since the close q,
last season were put through.
Deal Blow at Professionals
The committee announced that I.
would recommend to the central board
of officials that after next season snv
official who acts in a professional foot
ball game be dropped from the ap-
proved list of officials. This action
clearly shows the attitude of the gov.
erning body of the game toward pro-
fessional football, or, rather, toward
any connection between the collegiate
and professional games.
E. X. Hall. Of Dartmouth. Chairman
Of the committee, announced after the
session that the committee was in ZEN
tire accord" with the suggestions Of
fered by the gathering OF coaches at
their conclave last Monday night. The
plan of Major DAILY, the West Point
coach, to hold a general meeting Of
coaches. graduate managers and Of
Hcials at the end of each season was
particularly popular and probably
would be put into operation next fall.
The advisory board OF officials for
t0-A W III illCluUc ullS. OIL brOXr.
and W. n. Maurice, of Pennsylvania
DR.. A. H. Sharpe. Of Yale. will take
the place of Mr. Langford. Trinity. who
has given up officiating, and. in pursu-
ance of the policy of the committee to
have none but active officials on the
advisory board. resigned.
The suggestion of the coaches that
the rules committee define clipping as
cutting down from behind was over
ruled. The legislators did not think
that cutting down from behind ought
to be abolished under all circumstances.
They prefer to continue the present
ruling, which allows cutting from be-
hind unless the man cut was ALREADY
obviously out Of the play
Main Issues Overlooked
The proposal Of Frank Cavanaugh,
the Boston College mentor. was no.
even taken up seriously Cavanaugh
wants to do away with the present sys-
tenn Of timing and limit games by plays
instead of by the watch
Neither was any official action taken
with regard to numbering players.
hen asked FOR a statement on this
point after the meeting Chairman Hall
said, in part: The vast majority Of
the committee favor numbering the
players and strongly recommend the
practice. However, we believe that this
is matter for the various colleges 10
decide upon, and not a subject for leg
islation by the committee. Without pass
ing on the merits of the system, We
doubt whether it would be possible TO
enforce rules making il obligatory
Every member of the committee. with
the exception of DR.. Carl Williams, OF
the University of Pennsylvania. was
present yesterday. Besides Chairman
Hall OF Dartmouth there were Walter
Camp, of Yale, the secretary Of the
committee; Frederick W Moore. Har-
ward; Lieutenant Dashiel. Navy; DR.. j..
A. Rabbit. Haverford; William Roper,
the Princeton coach; DR.. W. A. Lam
beth, Virginia; A Aionzo Stagg, Chi
cago; DR.. II. L. Williams, Minnesota; {.
w. Savage. Oberiin, and Walter D.
Powell. of Stanford new member and
the first representative of the Pacins
Coast ever to serve on the committee:
Some of the other prominent football
men who were around renewing &C.
quaintances were Bob Fisher, the Har-
ward coach; Major Hayes, the director
of athletics at West Point, and Lieu
tenant Koehler. who holds the same
post at Annapolis.