Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-13
STILL A KICKING
GAME--H0LLENBACK
Spectators viii Benefit by New
Football Rules, opines
Penn Coach
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sSvr,HE same still ,remains a kicking
i game, despite the change made by |
the Rules Cominittee disallowing the |
free try for goal after touchdown was |
Bill Hollenback's comment this morn
Ing on the changes made Saturday aft |
ernoon by the moguls OF college foot.
ball.
Hollenback, who assisted as coach Of
the University Of Pennsylvania foot-
ball team last fall and who has had q
college rame. thinks that the changes
in the rule. particularly that one chang
Ing the goal after touchdown. are for
the good Of the spectators.
''The spectators will benefit BY this
said Holienbaci. "They will get a
little more FOR their money with the
extra play that results In the new rule.
Still I do not see how the new rule
eliminates the kicking part.
"A coach will, in all probability. In
struct his players to use the kick, either
drop or placement. The chances for
scoring BY this method are. much greater
than IN trying to rush the ball or IN
throwing q forward pass. A good field
goal booter can make the one point nine
times out OF ten II he has line that
can keep back the defensive team.
mo team evenly matched with an
other can rush the ball FIVE yards In one
down. particularly when the point in
question might decide the game. It's
hard enough to rush a ball five yards
with four downs. let alone try 1t in
one.
Forward Pass Impractical
'As for as the forward pass is con:
ce:ned, the quarter and halfbacks OF
the defending team can orient them.
selves in such way that they can pre-.
vent possible tahy by that method
mere times than they would fail. In
tried the bali would have to be placed
in play near the sidelines and away
from the goal posts. to prevent any
interference there
Hollenback believes that the defend
ing team will hold or be OF sides fire.
quently, no matter what play IL re-
sorted to to score the extra point. The
the offensive team will not charge, but
will stop the rushes Of the defensive
eleven BY simply holding its ground
ard waiting for the defenders to rush
through.
The new rule will eliminate the
loafers and the grandstand players. ac.
cording to Hollenback. The boys who
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backs stretched on the sridiron will
have something to do now and will not
have O rest until the kickoff. No more
rushing to the water bucket. Play will
be going on almost every minute with
everybody in the game. That is one
great feature of the change. II 1t
makes for the betterment Of the game
the. colleges might os we'll try 1t out,
; and II 1t doesn't prove much Of sue.
| Tho pnmn1itfnn rhanRa IL neYf
year"
; John w. He!sman. coach of the Uni.
vsrsity of Pennsylvania team. Is visiting
, in the West, and his Views on the
changes advocated BY himself at meet .
/ ing held here several weeks ago. could
not be obtained. Heinnan is Visiting
the Alumni Associations OF the Cniver, ,
to return to this city until tomorrow.
. At the meeting in this city the com =
mittee had read into it's rule the bring
ing Of the ball out to the fifteen. yard
line. but the committee in New York
changed that section to read to the
!, fve.y yard Inc.
The shift play is virtually eliminated
in the new rule which makes it obliga
. tory for the PLAYERS in n so-called shift
! to make a momentary stop in their
|. |. move ments so that the officials can tell
whether the play is legal.
, Mistake" Says Fisher
r. #. Fisher. Harvard football coach.
said today that he believed the Football
Rules Committee made mistake in
, passing the new rule that II player
is taken out Of a game because Of in
juries he cannot return to play in the
: same half
, Fisher said that there would be a
tendency to let an injured player stay
in the game until physicians and coaches
were convinced that it was necessary II
take him out. instead of withdrawing
him for observation.
Fisher regards as an experiment the
rule abolishing the free trial for q
goal after touchdown and the substi =
2 tuition therefor of play from scrim.
mage. Every team, he thought, would
. elect to drop. kick. and this would bring
: about the development Of drop -kickers
instead Of placement kickers.