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Evening star., 1922-12-11
Facts About Foot Ball;
The Best Play to Use
,BY SOL METZCER.
Copyright, 1922

=. An eligible player or forward
pass has one foot over end zone line.
lU-yards beyond goal line. He reach
ed back in end zone to catch forward
pass, touched it and fumbled the ball.
Before ball touched ground. an op-
ponent caught II and tried to run
with IT. II he makes touchdown is
touchdown allowed?
4. yo. The fact that one foot of
khe player touching the ball was be-
yond the end zone governs the play.
dhs moment he touches It, 1t becomes
3 toaehback. Rule IL. section 9.
Q. An onside man on a punt touch
ball with 5-yard penalty. Play evil
blown whistle. Then an opposing
back picked up the ball and ran for
y touchdown. claiming that his side
refused the penalty. Was this cor
Ioct!
A. Yes, 1t II = touchdown. The
Denalty for an oAside play may be
NvniveA.
Q. On q shift play. that is. where
q tackle comes back Of line more
khan yards, does the back who takes
his place have to be in exact posi-
zion tackle vacated on line of scrim-
image:
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rule requiring seven men to he On the
lfne Of ser4mmaEe when ball is put
In Play. Under the rNle he may take
- any poaitf0n On the line Of scrfm-
1aEe. Rsle ., section I. paragraph 5.
Q. Team A punts. and ball is caught
by opponents. After ball is caught
player of team b roughs the kicker
as he runs down field to make a
tackle at a point Is yards beyond
limo Of scrimmage. What is the de-
cision?
A. II player rouShs the man kick
tng after the ball has been caught By
rouEhness and q penalty of is yards
10 inflicted from where the ball was
AOWneA. Rule Fl, section s.
Q. Can a team be penalized il it
runs a play with seven men on the
l.ue of scrimmage and a halfback
but half a yard behind it?
4. All that rule 8, section I, re-
auiPeS II that seven nen be On the
Hae Of serinmaGe when ball is put
IN play.
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EXEND|NE CONSIDERING
HILLTOP OFFER TODAY

Although Georgetown UniveTsity's
grid season has ended and the players
have broken training. now that there
is TO prospect OF a post-season game
at San Diego, Calf foot ball is the
main topic of discussion at the Hill
top today. Eighteen members Of the
squad. who were awarded their
'G's" yesterday. arc meeting to elect
a captain for 1928. a vital issue with
the gridders. but problem, more vital
to foo. ball interests at the unirer-
sity, that concerning the coaching
task next year, is being thrashed out
by the athletic authorities and Albert
Exendire.
terday adopted the policy providing
for the appointment OF ali-year
Goa aches . be members of the teach
ing staff plan advocated by the
faculty of the university The board
offered the newly-c:eated office of di-
has been at the coaching helm at
Georgetown since 1914, with the eX-
ception Of one season.
Acceptance of the direct orship.
which probably would carry with 1t a
place on the law school faculty.
WOuiu 1pICc ~
a lucrative legal practice in Okla
homa. where he resides except during
the foot ball season.
The foot ball captairs election is
not likely to trouble the players to
any extent. although half of those
who were awarded the insignia yes
terday are eligible to the position.
Letter winners this year are Capt.
Comstock. Flayin. Wirts. Kenyon.
Mallcy. Lowe. Du Four. Adams. Bvrne,
sheehan. Thompson. Florence. King.
Sullivan. Smell. Butler. Goggin and
Manager Connin.
Twenty-Five freshmen have been
given numerals. They are Capt Col
sen. Pugh. Sauer. Rosenberg, MUIR
taugh. Walker Cullen. Foley. Dris-
coll. Ryan. Bricrdy. Berger. Plansky,
Haserty. Beatty. Brennan. Slane.
Joyce. Schofield. Metzger. Ta-die and
Manager Oakes.
The freshmen last night celebrated
their victory over the sonhs. 4 huge
bonfire was kindied and the blue and
gray caps. indicative Of tho fresh
mems heretofore lowly station. con-
signed to the flames.
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Much palavering took place over
foot ball schedules and possible dates
and realignments for next fall and
the year after. Because of arrange
Pnents it had already effected, Mary
9and was compelled to decline dates
with several southern schools. not
ASIthstanding its desire for such
games. especially with one of the
were completed for a game In Wash
fnston on October 20. the date George
Town is to play Georgia Tech at At
Janta. between Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and Maryland.
A school which has stood out in the
last two years with one of the best
slevens IN the south proposed a
Thanksgiving day contest with the
Marylanders in Washington. but an
arrangement which is pretty sure to
result in the College Park team re-
summing its Thanksgiving day date
with hopkins in Baltimore will pre-
vent.
Is Soltdly Established.
Il developed that the conference is
eoi!dly established and that il is the
intention of all to realiSn their foot
bail schedules for the season of 1894
80 that all important games will be
with other members. From expressed
sentiment of practically all institu-
xions. there is little likelihood that
che big northern schools will get
many practice" games with teams
below the Mason-Dixon line. As one
representative or state university
said. I'VE are going to play one
northern game next fall. but after
that we are through unless we de-
eide some time that we are strong
enough to give some Of them a good
licking
lnaeresting TO Georgetown. Catholic
University and George Washington
will be the information that the COM
tho Dis ssrict Of Columbia is not con-
ference territory and that any con-
florence teams may play them without
requiring them 10 meet conference
eligibility rules.
Efforts are being made ty Clark
Griffith. president of the Washington
ball club, to line up some of the big
southern schools for games at Amer
lean League Park with Georgetown.
1t seems. though. because of arrange
ments that already exist, that his eff
forts are not likely to be attended by
any considerable success.
strict as to Summer Ball.
Adoption Of a strict summer base
ball rule, which was fought through
the day after the conference voted
completely to let down the bars:
summary killing of several radical
proposals, two of which were to
abolish all freshman athletics and to
prevent college athletes from COM
peting with any other organization
at any time during their collegiate
careers: modification Of the migratory
rule. admission of Virginia Military
Institute to membership. refusal of
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GEORGIA TO PLAY YALE
ON GRlDlRON NEXT FALL

ATLANTA, December 11.-Cniversity
of Georgia will play Yale at foot ball
at New Haven on October 13, next
year.
Georgia also will meet Centre Col
lege next year. the game to be played
at Athens, on December !.
Other games on the schedule include
Tennessee at Knoxville, October 20;
Auburn at Columbus. Ga, November
5; Virginia at Athens. November 10:
Vanderbilt at Nashville. November
II, and Alabama at Montgomery, No
vember 3. Games for Athens on
September 20, October 6, and october
81 are yet to be arranged.
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admission to two other institutions,
and a general Interpretation and
clari1icatiOn OF the rules of eligibility
were the high lights of the meetings.
The base ball rule adopted. after
hours of dispensation of all kinds of
oratory and more or less acrimonious
discussion, was the same as was pre-
sented last year by the University Of
Maryland and which commanded only
four votes in its support. On Thurs
day night. after debating the question
from S:15 until after midnight. the
conference voted by Is to to allow
any kind of base ball for any amount
of salary. except in leagues under the
national agreement.
The question was reopened Satur-
day morning and representative Of
one of the South Atlantic institutions
offered to debate the question with
any representative of the thirteen in
stitutions which had voted to allow
cussion followed. during which both
sides of the question were debated
and which wound up with the pass
ing Of the new rule as an amendment
vote of IL TO 9. The rule adopt
ed is:
NO athlete of any conference in
stitution shall participate as mem
her of any summer base tall team
without the consent of his faculty
player when given permission shall
present to his faculty committee on
athletics on the reopening of his
school term certified statement that
he has not received pecuniary COM
pensation therefor"
Migratory Rule Modified.
The migratory rule was modified
so that a student who leaves one in
stitution TO attend another may COM
pete for the second institution in any
sport in which he has not represented
the first
In admitting the Virginia Military
Institute it was provided that it's
membership should not become effec-
tive until September l, 1928. but that
the eligibility rules of the conference
should be retroactive in its case to
January I. 1923.
With the exception of the summer
base ball rule, which took up the
major part of the conference meet
ings. there were few matters which
provoked much discussion. The at
tempt to abolish. freshman teams in
all sports was tabled by a big ma
jority almost as soon as it was pre-
sented, and the attempt to eliminate
the summer base ball question by
passing rule to prevent college
athletes playing on any kind of a
team except their collegiate mines
met with almost as short life.
A resolution to split the confer
ence in two sections was presented,
but it met with little favor among
the schools south Of North Carolina
and was killed.
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One intersectional announcement
may be made. Colgate has agreed to
visit Ohio State on October 13 and
play the Ohio State University eleven
DR.. Wilce, the Ohio coach. is hereby
warned. The Colgate eleven Of 1928
Is going to be one of the strong
teams Of the esSk Indeed, right now
it would seem tiiat tue maroon back
field is going to stand with the best
in power and versatility.
In the course OF foot bal, season
a number of amusing incidents arise
that add a touch OF merriment to a
pretty grim sport. Some that have
fallen across the experience or the
attention OF the writer seem to be
worthy Of wider distribution.
The Army -Notre Dame game was a
very rugged affair. 1t was clean. but
hard as chilled steel. Upon one oc-
casion Castner, the great Notre Dame
back. in wriggling through the line
was seized by the scruff of the neck
by Breidster and hurled to the
ground.
That's fine way to tackle man."
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complained Castner, looking up at h.
Lurly opponent.
Look here" scowled the Arm. ~ar
tain. every time they come throur +.
my position Im going to grab en-
anyway / can.
Mcmahon II Bane of BnrrOU.
Georgia Tech was playing Pen
circumstances Red Barron. the Tc"l
back. was tackled Oh the first thr'r'
end runs by MrMahon. States fu'
tackle. Thereafter every time Barro''
tried McMalon's side of the line Ma;
broke through and nabhed him
why" he would cry. ''if there ain 1
little Red. How do you do, Red: s.
down and stay a while
Then the next dash at NcNahon =
side of the lIle Red woI;d feel thos"
riselike arms about his body ar'i
that rlockiDs voice Ia his car.
Why. ] d" declare. if it ai1!'t 1T
tie Red again. bo sit down"
So It went all through the gam.
Red says he never felt moro li-'-
mu ride ring :. man than llc did Me
Mahon.
Tense Period at Princeton.
Down at Princeton where the lo:a;
grads were listening to the radio re
turns OF the Chicago same in tn"
Nassau Club. every one leaned for
ward as Chicago began her last-min
ute advance. Finally came this:
THE ball is on Princeton's 1-yarH
line. 1t has been snapped for the las
play" A pause. Then. is il over?
The question was followed by silenr'.
Suppiication. imprecation and unin
telligible cries were hurled at the IA.
distant an nNuncer. One minute. tw"
minutes. Ihree. After five minute
came the voice. a few moments as''
J was ask 81 is the bail OVER"
am now in ( position to say that II :
not
Copyright. 1872,
Evening star., 1922-12-11
MANHATTAN BASKETERS
WILL TACKLE ELL|0TTS

Manhattan basketers, who enjoyed
such a successful season last winter,
will take the floor tomorrow night
for the first match Of the present
campaign in Washington. The North
cas-: Indians are to tackle the Elliotts
at Eastern High School gymnasium,
starting play promptly at $3.50 o'clock.
Last week the Manhattans played 4
practice game at Hyattsville with the
Maryland National Guardsmen and
won, 23 to 16. Manager Hutchinson
has good squad at hand for this
season.
Petworth Athletic Clubs quint is to
play several games out Of the city
this season. The Petworth squad in
cludes Buchanan. Golland, Langford.
Brown. Jerman and Mckay, all prom
inent in independent court circles.
C1nc0 tosserH took the measure OF
the Wilson Normals In 26 to 10 en-
gagement. The two BOBBY brothers
accounted for nine of the court goals
made by the winners.
Stroller girls will meet the Ingram
sextet in Ingram gymnasium tonight
Play will get under way at 6:45
o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-12-11

The decisions Of the three presidents
not to allow their teams to play
games in the middle west makes 1t
impossible for Yale to play at Iowa
City.
Mai. DAILY the West Point coach
must have cast envious eyes at the
possession of Goettge by the Marines
in that game at Baltimore. Daily
could use the Marine star to very
great advantage in his backfield.
There was q lot Of good foot ball
played in the season Of 1922 outside
the college teams and professionals.
Old-time players are loath to give up
the game when they leave college and
many teams made up in whole or in
part of ex-collegians sprang up
throughout the country and found
little difficulty in arranging most in
teresting contests. The grid grad"
games between former stars Of the
east and west has become a seasonal
fixture.
Bill Roper. the Prince ton coach. never
said truer words than when he made
the statement that 4 team thrives
best on hard games.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1922-12-11
BRUNNERBEST SCORER
IN EASTERN FOOT BALL

"Bots'' Drummer. Lafayette halfback.
was the leading Individual point scorer
in the east for the 1922 foot ball sea-
son.
Trailing the Lafayette star by 13
points is Harry Wilson Of Penn State.
with a total Of % points. Wilson Is
tied with Brunner in the number of
touchdowns. but the Penn State man
has to his credit only l point after
touchdown.
closing week Of college foot ball was
the sudden rise of Eddie Tryon of
Colgate. who went into tie for third
place with Pam Of Cornell. Tryon
made touchdowns against Columbia
his total up to 66 points from Sc.
Swede Hanson of Cornell. who headed
the list last year in goals after touch
downs, is first in this respect, having
made 30 goals from placement for ex
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Team has bail in midheld. third
down. yard to go. and less than two
minutes to play. Whether behind or
in tie a team should take long
stab for a touchdown. Play a long
forward pass from this point. a re-
verse pass from kick formation is
good play. Such a pass is made by
running to the right or left and pass
ing to the opposite side of the field.
Foot ball players on defense are
usually inclined to go in the direc-
ton of the movement Of an opposing
tion is enough to insure the success
of your pass. if YOU have good
forward passer. Here is a good time
to use such a play to get a touch
down. or put you near enough 10 the
goal line to strike.
Evening star., 1922-12-11
MOHAWK PREPS HELD
TO 90 TIE BY SAINTS

Who's who in the 145-pound d;vi-
sion of sandlot foot ball in Washing
ton Will not be discovered before next
Sunday at the earliest. On that day
the Mohawk Props. who claim the
laurels in this class. are to entertain
the Stant"ns at 18th and u streets
southeast. but the Hawks will have
to go better than they did against
the ST Teresa Preps on the same
field yesterday if they arc to come
Saints, outweighed. gave the Hawks a
sturdy battle. and had the former not
been more handicapped than their
opponents by the muddy gridiron. the
Hawks might not have escaped with
a scoreless tic.
The Saints were more shifty in ac-
ton. but they depended greatly
upon speed. and that was not possible
on the soggy field Yesterday morn
ing's snow left great puddles over
the gridiron. and it seemed that
every time the lighter Saints were
in fair way to gain. they would
become mired in one of the excep
played we'll in the lines. but the
Saints presented backs more apt than
the Hawk ball runners.
Mohawk Athletic Club against
Georgetown Athletic Club yesterday
did when it lost its city championship
to the Mercurys a week before. The
one-time titleholders ran through and
about the West Enders to a 12-to-O
victory and outplayed Georgetown to
a greater extent than the score in
dicates. Cox make the Mohawk
touchdowns in the second and fcs'rth
periods. Georgetown Athletic Club
had held the Mohawks to a scoreless
draw earlier in the season. but 1t
never had a chance to count yester-
day
st. Agnes Erfdderx easily disposed
of the ModocS in a 25-to-13 engage
ment yesterday. King and Cavato
starred for the winners.
Barnes 1IidSets met the Browns yes
terday and won. 13 to 0. Yesbek and
Baker did the best playing for the
victors.
Lexington Athletic Clubs foot ball
team will meet tomorrow night at
429 5th street northeast Players are
to report at 1880 o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-12-11
SIX MARYLAND j. MEN
ON ALL-STATE TEAMS

Four University Of Maryland foo;
ball players are on the first team and
two on the second combination OF the
all-state elevers selected by Wilson
Wingate OF the Baltimore Sun. Win
gate saw each of the state teams IN
action at least twice.
Burger, tackle. and Brarner. end.
especially the former are paid high
praise by Wingate. who rates them
well above any of their competitors
for honors. Bailey. center. and Nc
Quade. fullback. are the other Mary
land men on the first team. NiSbit
and Hough are placed on the second
outfit.
Burger. Bailey. McQuade and Hough
are all Washington boys. Nisbet and
Branner are natives of Maryland.
Following are the selections.
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for Southern College Teams Tigers Not to Play Bears
MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE
TO SWAP MORE CONTESTS
Arrange many Base Ball Games for Next Spring and
Will Adjust Cridiron Lists SO That Few
Outside Schools are Met.
BY II. G. BYRD.

TLANlA -Gencra exchanges base bali games
~ between Southern Conference will
much
through North Carolina
scnave OF these south Alabama
-Aantaward. 49, ~
North Carolina and Maryland complete
suded details for its entire which games Mary
unond North Carolina State North Carolina games
Tech
liufe
Evening star., 1922-12-11
CUE STARS TO CLASH.

NEW YORK. December 11.-Jake
Schaefer. former worlds 1872 balkline
billiard champion. and Roger Cont.
the champion Of France. will meet in
Chicago January 8, 9. 10 to determine
which shall be privileged to challenge
Willie Hoppe for the international
1872 title. They will play a total of
1900 points in the three evenings.
Evening star., 1922-12-11
OLD NASSAU IS UNABLE
TO GRANT DATE SOUGHT
CalifOrnians Asked for November TO- Day ON Which
Princeton Meets Harvard-Ohio Stale Books
Trouble in Scheduling Colgate.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

EW YORK, December ll-Pnceton
Bears Nassau for ball game
which the Pacific could
this Saturday that the Tigers will
ton and there of thought OF renquhng
It understood that California has than the Princeton
the h but likely that the other available
three will be involved
Evening star., 1922-12-11
CUE MATCH AT P1CKWICK,

Joseph Concannon. for several years
holder of the New York state pocket
billiard championship. will be op-
posed by H. H. Clark tonight in an
exhibition cue match at the Pickwick
Academy. The match will start at
SIS o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-12-11
D. c. CHESS CHAMPION
TO PLAY ALL COMERS

|. S. Turnover. District champion.
will play all comers at the Capital
City Chess Club Saturday night.
starting at o'clock. There will be
no entrance fee and no admission will
be charged. All players are invited
to take part and all fans are urged
to attend.
Evening star., 1922-12-11
YALE STANDING STRICTLY
BY PACT OF ssBIC THREE
BY WALTER CAMP.

I lOKk December 1l-An OF
which the Yale authorities the ruling
from home for the Blue received Howard
There
ball relations with
ceved here stated he had heard by Jack Blossom the Els
athletic director that the Blue would favor
but that the authorities New Haven could
that sucha game wi rules
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SUTTON TO LEAD P.I.

Harry NJ. sutton. halfback. has been
elected captain Of the 1928 foot ball
team Of the Virginia Polytechnic In.
xtitute. He has played varsity ball
for three years, and is regarded as
one Of the best broken feld runners
in the South Atlantic states.
Evening star., 1922-12-11

District American Legion gridmen
and Southern Athletic Club probably
will meet at American League Park
next Sunday. The field there yester-
day was too soggy for use.
Evening star., 1922-12-11

NEW YORK, December 11-Penn-
sylvania has been unanimously
awarded the intercollegiate lacrosse
championship of the southern di-
vision
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MARSHALL ELECTS PILOT.

HUNTINGTON. w. Va. December
1.-Earl Harrington of Huntington
has been elected captain of the 1923
Marshall College foot ball eleven.
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st. Agnes Erfdderx easily disposed
of the Modocs in a 25-to-13 engage
ment yesterday. King and Cavato
starred for the winners
Evening star., 1922-12-11

Barnes 1Iidgets met the Browns yes
terday and won. 13 to 0. Yesbek and
Baker did the best playing for the
victors.
Evening star., 1922-12-11

Copyright. 1872
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Released On Christmas
By Habeas Corpus Writ

James Cleveland. who was SEN
fenced to serve six months in Jail
on December % by Judge Hardison
in Police Court. on a charge of car
rying a concealed weapon, was re-
leased from Jail yesterday on a
writ Of habeas corpus sued out by
his attorney T. Morris Wampler.
The writ was signed by Justice
Jennings Bailey Of the District Su-
preme Court, and although no branch
of the court was in session, Deputy
Clerk William s. Adkins issued the
bond on special instructions and
Cleveland was let out of Jail before
the sun went down Christmas Day.
In the petition Wampler alleges
that hard labor would result from
the six months confinement without
the accused ever having been indict.
ed as required by this Constitution.
Justice Bailey fixed the bond at $500
and the hearing on the writ for
January 5.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
SOB STUFF PLEAS
BARRED BY JUSTICE
Criminal Court Head Insists
That Lawyers Discontinue
Useless Harangues.

Sob stuff" has taken a back
seat.
AS far as Criminal Court No. |,
presided over by Justice Wendell
p. Stafford. is concerned, sobs are
out of date.
No more will Justice Stafford
listen patiently while lawyer
gushes about the angelic character
of his client who is before the
court for sentence.
If there are any tears to be shed
in behalf of criminal. they will
have to be shed during the trial
and not afterward.
Hereafter, according to Justice
Stafford's decision, all information
bearing on the subject of proba.
ton for an offender will be in the
report filed by Amos A. Steele
probation officer. and IL ANYTHING
good is to be said about a person
convicted of crime. the court will
hear 1t from an unbiased and reli
able source. If the lawyers them
selves have any information bear
ing on the character of their eli
ents. they must submit 1t to Mr.
Steele.