Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05
FOOT BALL RULES
They Will be Unaltered From Stand.
point of Spectators.

point or spectators.
With all it's essential details the
game of football will be played in the
colleges this fall under the same code
of rules that governed the sport last
season. From the viewpoint of the
spectator, the game will be the same.
From the standpoint of the coach and
player it will be altered in only one
respect, and this detail :::;ill not re-
quire new tactics or new general
ship. The changes are interesting but
not vital.
Chief of these is. a. new feature
which the rule makers cSll q "try-for-
point" a departure that will take the
place Of the traditional placement
kick after a touchdown. Up to this
season a team scoring a touchdown
was allowed to try for an additional
point by lining up twenty yards from
the goal posts and kicking place goal
between tn uprights, the opposing team
having the privilege to block it from
beneath the goarl posts.
Under the changes made at the meet
ing of the Rules Committee last winter
this convention feature of the game
has been abolished. Now the side
scoring the touchdown will be per-
mitted to bring the ball out to any
point not less than five yards from the
goal line or to any greater distance 1t
may choose. There a scrmmage will
be formed in the regular way, with the
scoring side in possession of the ball.
They can make any play which Is
legal from an ordinary scrmmage and
endeavor to score by a drop kick
place kick, run or forward pass.
If the scoring side should carry the
play or kick goal from field, one
point will be added to their total. I'm
mediately after that the ball is dead
and is taken back for kickoff as
was done under the old rules.
Penalty for Defenders Foul.
The new regulations also provide
that a foul by the defending side will
automatically give the other team the
additional point. If the attacking side
fouls, the attempts for score is in
validated If both teams foul, the try
for point shall be played over.
The much debated and bitterly op-
posed shift plays in which men on
the attacking side do not come to n
full stop before the ball is put into
play came in for attention from the
rule makers. AS practiccd by Notre
Dame and other teams, there was so
short stop on the part of the players
that the officials were hard put to
it to decide whether or not the men
were actually in motion.
The new rule provides as formerly
regarding the ordinary shifts and also
provides that when n man in motion
be at least five yards back when the
ball is put into play. The following
important note is appended TO the
rule: I'm all shift plays both feet
OIl lIlC bioui'u - i''Si piNI-
cd to mean that sufficient momen-
tary pause occurs as to admit Of off,
cials seeing that the play is legal
and that the ball was not snapped
while the men were in motion. 1t is
the intention of the rule that when a
man shifts to new position he shall
come to a full stop, so that all NOM
entum is lost, and make a new start
from n position Of rest when the ball
is put in play"
The question Of momentum was the
.cruX of the dispute over the shift play.
1t was help that teams using this
play oftcntimcs put the ball into play
while the backfeld men were under
momentum, the momentary pause not
being sustained enough to slacken the
speed Of the attacking players. So
great was the confusion among Off
cials and coaches over this moot ques?
ton that the rule makers decided to
claifify it.
Clipping isD efined.
Clipping, another debated offcnsc, is |