New Britain herald., 1925-10-29
CHANGES IN RELIES
 BEING CONSIDERED
Tie Games and Point After
 Touchdown Important

dealing with the scoring system In foobal will be up for renovation. One deals with the indecisive tic game and the other with the extra point after touchdown.
 Agitation against both issues has developed in all sections of the country as result of wholesale number of tic games and the great number of contests decided by tho point after touchdown which. it Is claimed by many critics, puts too great penalty on a team matching one touchdown with another.
 Footballs scoring rules are unique In that they provide no relief for the tie game. No other major Ameri- can college outside of track and field. fails 10 supply means of breaking deadlocks. Basketball provides an extra time period: base- ball runs into extra innings if the count is knotted at the end of the ninth; tennis matches must be played uptil decisive result is ob- tained while hockey. soccer, golf and polo all furnish 6 means for break ing ties.
 Football rulemakcrs have wrestled with these problems time and again without arriving at q lasting solu- ton. 1t wasn't so long ago that John flcisman, now coach at Rice Institute, Texas, put forward a plan to break ties by giving each team q certain number of plays in an extra period, awarding an additional point to the eleven gaining the most ground by any method it desired. This scheme was turned down, how ever, by the coaches themselves.
 The extra point after touchdown, as matter of fact, was incorporated In the play with the idea of break ing many deadlocks but it does not appear 10 be generally effective. At first this additional point could be gained only by kick. The rules now provide that the attacking team may try q rush or pass to go over the goal line but these alternatives are rarely used because the greater percentage of success at kicking. This. opponents of the extra point now contend, puts too great a pre- mlum on possession of a good kicker ana acts as hardship to the eleven whose rushing attack is equally as effective as its rivals,
 The statistics of the matter arc a bit illuminating. In the east. for Instance, this year, no less than fl games have resulted In tie scores while seven have been decided bv the extra point after touchdown. Examples of the tie game can be cited in the Navy-Princeton 1O-10 result; the Lafayette Colgate " tie; the Lehigh-Gettysburg 7-7 game and the Williams-Howdoin S6 con- test.
 Harvard and Lafayette have both iPIt defeat by the extra point route. Holy Cross defeated the Crimson. I to when Harvard failed 10 kick n goal after touchdown while Wash ineton X Jefferson gained it's to 6 verdict over Lafayette by the same method.
 St. Stephens college of Pough- keepSic. N. I., has just cause fo, complaint over the present scoring system. St. Stephens has been de- feated twice by tho 7-G score while on anoihe occasion 1t was held to a scorcIess tie.
 While even opponents of the extra point after touchdown feel that 'lere Is little likelihood Of any change in this ruling next year they contend the rule-makcrs will en- deavor to bring about a satisfactory solution of the tie game problem.
 Among the changes effected in the rules this year the most notice able results have been obtained by returning the kickoff from midheld 70 the kickors' 0-yard-linc. This has accomplished the purpose for which it was aimed by furnishing ''i'l S "tl- '"ONsHi pIF bI the most spectacular plays on tho gridiron, and avoiding the frequency with which the hall sailed over the goal lines when booted from the middle of the field.
 Red Grange of Illinois and Eddie Tryon of Colgate are among tho stars who have raced to touchdowns from kickoff this year while nearly every game has supplied features in long run-backs
 Last year there was considerable agitation to curb the forward pass but makers voted against
 tnkering" with the aerial game and are likely To maintain the same attitude next winter If any fresh proposals are put forward. They point out that 1t has been the pass ing game which has been chiefly in. s'rum"n'al in lovelling old barriers and providing wider equality of play results which have led to kcon"r competition as well as greater public interest in the game.