The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
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COACHES DISCUSS
new GRID RULES
AT NCAA FARLEY
Shippers Spend Day Cos
siping AS Meeting Post
poned Until Today

NEW YORK, Jan. 5. -(P3- Col
lege football coaches late Sunday
sent recommendations to til NCf \
football rules committee asking
that a try for extra point which has
been blocked be declared dead and
that the ball be moved in 20 yards
of the sidelines instead Of the pres
ent Is yards.
The tutors. met in a prelude to
the National Collegiate Athletic A.
sociation's annual session which
was to have started. Sunday but
was delayed until Monday when
West Coast members were ground
ed en- route because of weather
conditions.
The coaches committee, of which
Lou Little of Columbia is chairman.
sent five suggestions to the NCAA
committee for consideration.
In addition to the dead ball on
a blocked try for extra point and
widening of the playing zone after
an ou~t-of-bounds maneuver, the
coaches asked that the substitution
rule be amended to permit the in
PRODUCTION of two players at any
one time while the clock is running;
a definition of the rule on the shift,
and softening of wearing apparel
in the interest of safety.
The football coaches meeting was
the only actual action Sunday as
the NCAA and its attendant auxll.
iaries opened the annual conven-
ton.
Most of the day was spent in lob
by g~ossiping as athletic directors
from numerous schools busted
themselves hunting a football coach
for 1947. Most ardent among them
was Hobbs Adams, who stepped
up from head football coach to
athletic director, at Kansas State
this year.
Monday the NCAA proper takes
over and the problems of gambling,
ticket scalping and eligibility.
The conference of conferences, a
group made up of the commission
ers of the various collegiate cir
cults, holds sway Monday with ell
gibility and the payment of finan-
cial assistance to football players
as the No. l topic.
The discussion will be limited to
answers of a QUESTIONABLE sent
out following last summers Chica.
20 meeting and replies from 400
different schools will be available
for background.
Gambling and ticket speculation,
brought into the foreground by the
recent break in football relations
between Army and Notre Dame,
will be on the Tuesday program at
which Ralph Furey of Columbia,
will speak on eligibility and Earl
Yeomans of Temple, will report on
gambling.
Members of the coaches commit
tee which sent the rules recon-
mendations to the NCAA are Ike
Armstrong of Utah, Matty Bell OF
Southern Methodist, Dana x. Bible
of Texas, C. O. Ortiz Cribles OF
Michigan, Richard Harlow OF Har'
ward, James Lookabaugh Of Okla
homa A. & M. fuss McLaughry OF
Dartmouth, Alvin N. Boz McMll-
lin of Indiana, Frank Murray OF
Marquette, Jesse Nicely of Rice,
Tex Oliver of Oregon, Wallace
Wade of Duke, Tad Wieman OF
Maine and Wallace Butts OF
Georgia. In addition Richard Cav
in of Melrose, Mass, High School,
and Chris Muhl of University High,
st. Louis, also are members OF the
committee.
The coaches group can not draft
rules changes. 1t can only recon-
mend revisions to the NCAA rules
committee which is headed by Will
liam Bingham. director of athletics
at Harvard.