The New York herald., 1922-03-12
new PLAY BOUND
TO FURNISH THRILLS
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Have One Chance to Score
From Five Yard
Line.
CHECK FOR SHIFT PLAYS
Provision Is Made to Stop
Move Before Ball
Passes.
CHECK FOR SHIFT PLAYS
ny w. o. McGEEHAN.

After lengthy night and morning
sessions at the Biltmore the football
rules committee Of the Intercollegiate
Athletic Association passed some i'm
portant changes. The most startling
was thu adoption of Major Charles
Daly's substitute for the goal kick
after touchdown.
The new rule as adopted by the
comMittee Is as follows:
Goal after touchdown. When a
touchdown has been made the side
scoring the touchdown has possession
of the ball anywhere on or outside
the five yard line for scrimmage, from
which by. any legal play as from an
ordinary scrimmage, pass or kick or
run they may score a field goal or a
touchdown and that score Of any
character shall net them one point.
IF the attacking side make foul or
illegal or incomplete forward pass they
lose their chance for the one point. If
the defending side offend the score of
ono point shall be given
= It is believed that this play will add
some tense moments to the game, espe-
cially should the occasion arise where
the teams are tied up to the point where
Ehis contingency arises. Hitherto the
matter of fact kicking of the goal by
one man has been nothing very exciting
to watch.
Tricky shift plays are guarded against
in a new rule which will read to this
effect:
'.Shift play-In all shift plays both
feet stationary on the ground is inter-
preted to mean that sufficient mo-
mentary pause occur. This is to admit
Of officials seeing that the play Is legal
and that the ball was not snapped
while the men were in motion. II is
the intention of the rule that when a
man shifts to a new position he shall
come to a full stop, SO that all mo-
nlentum is lost. and make a new start
from a position of rest when the ball
Is put into play"
To simplify Game.
This rule will do away with some
spectacular but basically illegal plays.
It will simplify the game considerably
and eliminate a recently developed ele-
nent of roughness.
Further attempts 90 do away with nm
necessary roughness are evident in the
new definition of clipping which will
be written into the rule books. This
innovation reads:
Clipping. Clipping is throwing the
body from behind across the leg or legs
or below the knees of a player not carry
ing the ball and shall be ruled as un-
necessary. Note-This rule Is not meant
10 apply to close line play"
A new rule provides that a man start
ing before a ball is snapped must start
from point five yards behind the line.
This evidently is aimed at the wing play
OK, Princeton. Another new rule holds
that as soon as the ball crosses a goal
line q touchdown is scored at the point
where 1t crosses. This will stop some
farther unnecessary roughness.
The rules committee seems to have
met the criticism of Tad Jones Of Yale
only part way. Jones frankly declared
that all coaches had been sending in
substitutes to carry orders for particular
plays and by doing this they were de-
stroying initiative on the part Of the
players.
The new rule reads: "A player taken
out in one half cannot return to the
game in the same half. but can go back
ming of a period"
This will put some check on the habit
Of sending men in and out with in
Structions from coaches at critical points
in the game, but IL does not thoroughly
eliminate the evil pointed out by Tad
Jones. This will be ended entirely when
the coaches and the authorities agree to
hold TO the spirit OF the game and keep
the agreement.
Fix New Penalty.
The committee fixed the penalty
against a team making forward pass
when player of that side fnterferes
with a player on the opposing side In
any manner until the ball is touched
excepting In an actual attempt to catch
or bat the ball to fifteen yards and q
down.
The kickoff rule has been changed so
that IL the winner Of the toss selects
The goal the other team will have the
right to choose between kicking off or
receiving the ball. When the game Is
delayed in starting, the officials, with
the consent OF the captains. will have
the right to shorten the last half or
the last quarter.
An Interpretation committee was ap-
pointed to pass upon the rules as fol-
lows: Walter Camp. w. b. Langford.
William Morice and Lieut.. W. III.
Hackett. The Interpretation will be
given out on September /. e. X. Hall
of Dartmouth was chosen chairman Of
the committee and Walter Camp was
elected editor of the rules publication.
Those at the meeting were E. X. Hall,
DaTtpocata, walter Camp. Yale; DIR.
Aionzo A. Stagg. Chicago; J.. A. Babbitt,
Haverford: Fred w. Moore, Harvard
w. w. Roper. Princeton; Harry l.. WILL
Jams. Minnesota Carl Williams. Penn
sylvania Paul J. Dashiel, United States
Naval Academy; Andrew Smith, Cali
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