South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-22
Notre Dame Grid Mentor
Staunch Advocate of Changes
Made by Committee.

Coach Knute Rockne. of Notre
Dame. interpreted the effect that the
new football rules promulgated re-
Gently will have on the great AM
erican gridiron game, in a talk 10
University club members Tuesday
afternoon. Incidentally he traced
the development OF football
In Mr. Rockne's belief, the new
rules are a bettermenJ for the game
They Will tend to make the contests
more scientific and more spectacular
just as the rules made from year 10
year have previously done. he said.
Taking them up one by one. he
first declared what the effect was Of
the rule preventing substitutions Of
men in the same half in which they
have played. Il will tend 10 make
football an exhibition between play
ers and students rather than a sci
entific contest between coaches, de-
clared the coach.
Coaches will be a bit particular
about removing players in the third
quarter when they know they Will
not be able to send those men back
i'm the game. 1t will tend to prevent
the coach from sending in instruc-
tions by two or three emissaries.
VIII Hamper Strategy.
Between halves a coach may eX-
plain 10 his men in vivid detail some
Of the plays Of his opponents which
have been bewildering and mystify-
ing. In the second half he must
send ip instructions to combat any
new receptive tricks. Inability 20
send back in players jerked out for
the purpose Of sending instructions
in by fresh men, will eliminate the
tendency Of a coach to use his STRAIT
egg in the third quarter TO offset
that OF the opposing coach"
The rule with reference TO clip
ping, Coach Rockne said. has been
brOadened. and he added that in his
opinion il was a betterment Of the
present rule. The new regulation
prevents clipping except within the
line OF scrimmage, and in the flu
ture IL will be construed when vio-
lated. as unnecessary roughness pro-
viding for a Fertilization OF half the
distance from the goal and sending
the individual vloiator 10 the side
lines.
The rule eliminating the try for
goal and providing a play from the
| five-yard line to advance the ball Is
a betterment, Coach Rockne said.
In the one case where a goal from
. touchdown followed, the success OF
scoring the extra point was thrust
upon the ability OF one Of two men.
In the future II men on offensive
and the same number on defensive
/ must take part. Il places a prem
ium on the drop kicker. added the
/ coach. But even 50, IL IS better, be-
, cause all players must take part IN
/ providing a defense for the kicker
Must Have Kicker.
A pass may be employed. he said
where the secondary defense is
/ drawn up TO stop a kick. So a sue
/ cessful team must have kicker who
/ can either drop-kick or pass A
| Llace-kick may be essayed but this
/ removes one Of the players who
might be used in interference. A
run might also be tried. but the
! coaches generally Will not resort tc
this method, Rockne said. because a
running play is harder on the play
ers.
The rule pronouncing the bal
dead Immediately it has passed the
goal posts is an advancement, the
coach declared. Heretofore. a team
advancing the ball 10 or so yeards
on downs has often lost the fruits
Of its successful forward march by
a tumble in crossing the goal line
The change in the rules OF tn,