The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-09-30


As vas pointed out at the meet
ing last week safety precautions
in high school have improved
greatly over the years. Players
are nov required to wear face
masks It used to be that only
one or two players on the field
had nose guards" and these
were generally the players that
had broken noses. bad eyes, or
other face injuries.
Another change that is lin the
wind is the compulsory wearing
of mouth protectors. This viii be
another step forward, and we
predict that it will be required
within the next five years. A
player can play for a long time
without getting kicked or hit in
the teeth. but sooner or later it's
going to happen. There is no
more helpless feeling than to find
yourself On the bottom Of a pile
up with q mouthful of broken
teeth. You get up. spit blood and
see red! It's too late to take pre-
cautions then. but you kick your
self for not having enough fore
sight to put mouth protector
in your mouth. After you get ac-
custoned to wearing a mouth
protector. it does rot bother you
any more than a helmet, Shout
der pads. or anything else.
Penalties for clipping may be
seen more frequently this year.
due to minor change in the
clipping rule Clipping is allowed
only for four yards on each side
OF the ball on the line of scrim-
mage and for two yards deep,
and can only be done by a player
that originates in that zone on a
player who originates in that
zone. For all practical purposes
that means there can be no
clipping! The old plays where a
wingback, or Tanker cuts back
to clip an end or line hacker are
now illegal. A large number of
leg injuries popped up on these
legal" clips SO they are now IL
legal. This is a good rule change
that should help eliminate inju-
rieS.
It is interesting to note that
high school teams can play leg
ally on a field that has the wide
goal posts. This is found where
both college and high school
teams play on the same field. It
will probably be only a short
time until high schools adopt the
wide goal posts that are used in
college play now.
DROPS FOOTBALL
Kenbridge has dropped foot
ball for the year. They were un-
able to develop a squad, even
though they had scheduled only
few games.
WINS BOAT
Charlie French won the boat
given away by the Jaycees at
the Fair. The money raised by
the JayceeS win be used to do
more work on the Farmville ath-
letic field. It's pleasant to recall
the wonderful job done by the
Jaycees last fall in getting the
field ready for play in an unbe-
ievable short time. The field will
continue to improve with age.
GOBBLERS AT WEYANOKE
The VPI football squad stopped
at Farmville's Hotel Weyanoke
for dinner Saturday evening en-
route from their Is to 0 Tobacco
Festival victory over West Vir-
ginia's Mountaineers at Rich
mond's City Stadium. It was a
hearty steak affair for the hun
CRY Gobblers, Al strong. The no.
tel reports the players deport-
ment was faultless, despite the
festival victory a big one for
any team with Southern Confer
ence title aspirations.
BUCKINGHAM ADDITION
Four new players have been
added to the Buckingham team
and will be ready Friday night
when the Buccaneers play at
Bluestone. They are Allan Ritter,
Garland Wood. william Daniels
and Dwight Christian.
Curtis Heath who broke his