Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-11
Will Make Cams {, i More Diff
cult And Thereby Will Find
Favor With Fans; Another
Move Ii Team Play, AL
though Essentials Of Game
Remain the Same; Inter
sectional Gamss Numerous

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The new football season that will be
ushered in this month holds, great
promise both as to. the quality of the
spectator, 80
So far as the essential elements of
the game are concerned, football will
follow pretty 1uch theESsame code Of
rules this fall as prevailed last sea-
son. Whist few changes have been
made by the rules committee seem to
nave met with the favor of most of
the coaches, but, of course, it re-
mains to be cen how these changes
will wotkS out in actual competition.
Most important among the .2ltera-
tons in the. code governing the game
Is the elimination of the placement
kick after a touchdown in favor of
the so-called trv-for-point."
This will ALLOW the team scoring the
touchdown to bring the ball out not
less than Ave yeards from the goal
Up in regular; scrimmage formation.
the eleven that. has just scored the
touchdown will be permitted to try
Tor the extra point by any legal play
from scrimrnaEe by a drop kick, a
placement kick, "a run, or a forward
Step IN Favor Of Team Play.
It. will. be interesting to note how
this rather Important change will
work out this season. AT, any rate,
1t seems to be another step in favor
|'of team play. and the extra point
which often proves to be an import
ant and decisive n will no longer
depend mainly upon the skill of a sin
gle a~ndividual player, as 1t has in the
1t will make the game slightly
more difficult and in that respect
ought-to meet with the favor of the
spectators. Z
In additionfto the change just men
ktioned, the rules committee has de-
fined more clearly clipping, unnec-
essary rouEhness and particularly
shift plays. Last season the shift
| plays caused much debate and bitter
opposition because when practiced by
teams such as Notre Dame and others
shifting players halted for 80 short
an interval that officials had difficulty
in deciding whether they had actually
stopped or not. BY amending the rule
so that it calls for the shifting plays
to stop long enough to lose their mo-
mentum the committee has done much
to clarity the situation.
A, perusal of the various schedules
! for the coming season revealsathe fact
LnuC lOOCDdAI eNLHuSldSLS IN Ill sec
tions of the country have many a treat
in store for them. \
Intersectional Contests.
~Intersectional contests which fea-
tured the 1921 campaign will be just
as numerous this year. despite the
cries raised against them last winter,
The Princeton-Chicago game, sched-
| uled for Chicago October, %. and the
,Iowa-Yale. contest. scheduled for New
Haven October IA, are only two ,ot
the many important sectional battles
that Will be fought this year. Fol
lowers of football in the east will have
several interesting games to watch
with such contests as those between
Syracuse and Penn State, Lafayette
and w. & j., Dartmouth and Cornell,
scheduled to be played on the Polo
grounds. -.
Within another week or two the
various teams will be well under way
with their preparations for the coming
campaign. Many coaches have al.
ready issued. the call for candidates
and the end of the present month will
see the Teams ready for the gridiror
battles Of October and November.