New Britain herald., 1927-12-29
NO CRITICISM OF
 GRID RULES MADE
E. K, Hall IntimateS There Will
 Be No Changes This Year

Now York. Dec. % UpD--Thcrc is just one outstanding figure in football, as far as the rules and reg ulations of this most popular and re- munerative Of college games is con- ccrned, and his name is r.. K. Hall. His college was Dartmouth and his job is chairman ot the rules com mittee.
 Just when II was understood that the 1927 playing rules were 10 be mad" the subject of a destructive croSS-ire of criticism from ofticia Is. roach's and spectatorS, the suavc, torcetul figure of l.. K. Hall popped into the breach today with upraiscd hand
 In his annual report to the Ma uonal Collegiate Athletic association which opened it's 22d convention at tn" Hotel Astor this morning, Hall moi only defended the playing rules
 m force this year. but minated that they would remain in force
 Al Wednesdays meeting Of the as SoCiation of intercollegiate football officials, who were expected to raise loud and forccful objections to the present rules on the ground that they were too complicated. Hall took 'Hr wind out of thc horns and E..lsDlrs of those present by dociar- inS that there would be no change in the gridiron code for l9gS.
 The football officials, who came In for unprecedented criticism last fall came to New York for their annual contah prepared to attack the play ing rules from any number Of djf- feycnt angles. But Hall advised them that every effort of the rules committee will be bent towards "stabilizing the rules as they now arc"
 The chairman of the rules com mittoo agreed with the officials. who met and reelected officers and went through their customary routine business, that in some instances the present regulations might be clarl- fed. Rut as for the sweeping chang cS which the attitude of some of the whistle blowers and horn tooters had indicated would be demanded, Hall said firmly. 'nothgg doing.'
 The rules, said Hall, might hc rc- written and rocodiDied for 1928. but not before that time.
 In his report to the x, C, A. A. today. the chairman of tho rules committee explained the following points:
 In 1906. the rules committee set out deliberately to change the game of football as then played;
 The first idea was to make the game safer and more intcrcsting; the second to make it more open; the third 10 remove the premium upon mere weight and to develop greater opportunity for speed, agil- ity and brains:
 From 1906 to 1920. Hall said. the committee labored to bring about the desired changes, to produce a game requiring more strategy, one giving the under dog a better chance. and one in which sports and better officiating would enter in.
 Hall reviewed the changes In the rules during that l4-ycar period. and said that since 1920 his committee had been concerned chiefly with con- sideration Of such questions as to whether the game could be made safer, more open, more sportsman like or better adjusted as between oGf"nse and defense.
 The chairman of the rules com mittce explained that this years new rul" against inc shift was designed to prevent abuse of the opportunities afforded the offenSe by that play. He urged that the rule regarding fumhlcd punts had been designed to encourage the catching and running back of punts by defensive quarter backs,
 Removal of the goal posts 10 q ro- sition ten yards b. hind tn" respcc- tive goal lines has been the new regulation chiefly attacked by the football men gathered here this week. Hall defended the removal vigorously.
 Safety of players heretofore en- dancered by contact with the up- rights he urged. was moro 10 be considered than the interest of tn" spectators who wished to know i'm mediatcly whether or not a. touch down had been scored,
 The lateral pass rule came In for equally warm dcfe1lsc from the rules chairman.
 Thus. while the talk in the Hobbies of several New York hotels. wher" burlv football men, Al-AmorlCu l.nrnnE nf :, f.-,. ,rllS hncl cna cln: