The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-29
NO VITAL CHANGES
IN FOOTBALL RULES
To The Spectators the eridIron
Game viii Appsar as In
1921 Season

OF IOOlDall VIII De prayed III the col I
leges this fail under the same code |
OF rules that governed the sport last |
season. From the viewpoint OF the |
spectator the game viii be the same.
From the standpoint Of the coach and |
player 1t will be altered in only one
respect, and this detail will not re.
quire now tactics or new generalship. |
The changes are interesting but not
vital.
Chief Of these Is new feature
which the rule.makers call a 'try.for
point" departure that Will take the
kick after touchdown. Up to this
season team scoring a touchdown
was allowed to try for an additional
point by lining up 20 yards from the
goal posts and kicking a place goal
between the uprights, the opposing
team having the privilege to block II
from beneath the goal posts.
Under the changes made at the
meeting OF the rules committee .ast
winter this conventional feature OF
the game has been abolished. Now
the side scoring the touchdown will
be permitted to bring the ball out TO
any point not less than five yards
from the goal line or to any greater
scrimmage will be formed in the regu
ar way, with the scoring side in pos
session OF the ball. They can make
any play which is legal from an ordi
nary scrimmage and endeavor TO
score by a drop kick, place kick, a
run or forward pass.
II the scoring side should carry the
ball over the goal line In single
play or kick goal from field, one
point will be added to their total.
Immediately after that the ball is
dead and is taken back for a Kickoff
as was done under the old rules.
The new regulations also provide
that foul by the defending side will
automatically give the other team
the additional point. II the attack
l'ng side fouls, the attempt for score
is lnyalidated. II both teams foul
the try.for-pont shall be played over
The much debated and bitterly op
p lposed shit plays in which men OF
Q the attacking side do not come to q
full stop before the ball is put into
play came In tor attention from tbs
yule-makers AS practiced by Notrt
Dame and other teams, there was SC
short a stop on the part of the play
ers that the officials were hard pu
to II to decide whether or not the
4 men were actually in motion
+ The new rule provides as formerl!
: egardng the ordinary shifts and alsC
rovides that when man in motion
T. has left the scrmmage line he mus
e be at least five yards back when thu
ball is put In play, The follownl
important note is appended to tn
rule In all SHIFT plays both fee
stationary on the ground is interpre
ted to mean that sufficient momen
r., taIy pause occur as to admit OF OF
p ficials seeing that the play is lega
and that the ball was not snappe
:, while the men were In motion. II I
4 the intention Of the rule that whe
man shifts TO new position h
shall come to a full stop, so that al
momentum is lost. and make a nel
start from a position OF rest when IN
ban Is put in play
The question OF momentum was tn
L crux of the dispute over the shift play
. II was held that teams using this pla
q oftentimes put the ball into pla
= while the backfield men were unde
momentum, the momentary pause nc
being sustained enough to slacken tn
speed OF the attacking players S
great was the confusion among off
cials and coaches over this moot quei
ton that the rulemakers decided [
,larify it,
Clipping another debated offense
n formally defined In the rules II wa
10! hidden last year but not defined
50 creating some confusion The defin
= ton reads as follows Throw NJ iii
pody from beh'nd across the leg
- egS (helow the knees) OF playe
not carrying the ball This, howeve
& does not apply to close line play
"a The penalty is 10 yards from the spC
81 where the ball was put into play.
M Unnecessary roughness has bee
more clearly defined and additions
~ power put into the hands Of the O
81 ficials. It was made more clear Thu
II the officials should he stringent
q handling it,
81 Relating to substitution. a playt
IA taken out in one half cannot retur
~ IN the same half but a player wi
has been removed in the first ha
~ may return in the second half. not ne
essarIly at the beginning of a perio
Another change is that interference
with the defensive side on a forwal
M pass entails loss OF Is yards and
down Time taken out after the thil
request by a captain entails a tw
yard penalty; that is the stakes a
not to be moved as formerly.
A minor change IN the kickoff ru
S provides that the winner OF the co
mi toss shall have the choice OF goal
E kick off. and that these privileges
81 to choice shall be reversed at the /
ISL ginning of the third period
The referee is perm tied to short
Isl the playing time at intermasion if
MN should decide that darkness Is like
to interfere with the complet on of &
- game. The declining of penalties h
ia been made clearer. The referee in {
future will select the assistants to 4
linesman, naming the men who are