Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-09 | Page 10 | Coach Stagg Suggests Football Revision

COACH STAGG SUGGESTS FOOTBALL REVISION CHICAGO. Feb. S. High school football foot-ball will undergo a thomugh revision If the Ideas of Coach A. A Stagg of the I'nlverslty of Chicago prevail at the next meeting of the national rules body on March 25. Stagg arrived from New York yesterday and told what he wIJI attempt as a member of the speclnl sub-commltlee appointed to draw up suggestions for t lie "prep" school game. At T'cKCnt Stagg has three definite notions, no-tions, about evils of I he, game as ployed in high schools, and his solutions are these: Require a medical examination of all athletes who participate in a high school or club game before they arc permitted to nlay. Shorten the halves lo a maximum of twentv minutes, or make four quarters of'ten" minutes each, with tlve-minute Intermissions. In-termissions. Prevent games between palpably unevenly un-evenly matched high school teams and abolish games between high schools and universities.