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Show Local Officials to Block IL f.1. C. Ruling on Kick After Touchdown Conference Coaches Also Take Liberal Interpretation Interpre-tation of Clipping Rule any chsngeg In the rules, these ought to be made neat easen, when the rules committee gets together for auch purposes. pur-poses. The coaches of the Itocky mountain moun-tain conference have no right to make a new ruling or to go back to the last year'a ruling if they Intend to play tha football game aa it should be played for 1922. and ft seems that theae men overstepped their boundary when they attempted to discard tha 1921 ruling and go back to tha 1921 ruling. The local officials' organisation organ-isation has passed a motion to stand by the present ruling and ask for a chance next seaaon, aa there are none of the membera of tha local organisation who believe in the present form or the kick after touchdown. Tha majority are In favor of discarding- the kick after touchdown touch-down and raising the pointa of a touch down from alx to seven pointa. which . would wiU ii impossible for a team making a touchdown to be defeated by two field goals, which would bring the total to alx potnta. Thia pian will be put up before the rules committee at Ita next meeting, but In the meantime the Utah ofrirlala have agreed to stand by tha ypreeent rules. The Rocky mountain conference con-ference football la only one or a poaslble fifty and It aeema that the membera at i the Denver meeting took a burden on j their shoulders when they attempted to change the ruling, which reads very plainly In tha rule book. CLIPPING ALLOWED. 1 Rule XXI, aectlon 5. which deals with th clipping In football, waa also brought up for dlscuaaion and the Colorado officials offi-cials and coaches took a liberal interpretation inter-pretation on thta ruling. Thia clipping from behind will be left entirely to the officials aa to whether the man who did the clipping committed the act agalnat a man out of the plav or whether it wag unnecessary rough neae. Many trmes clipping clip-ping la the only meana of putting a man out of the play and the Colorado officials offi-cials will likely permit a man to be knocked over from behind aa long aa that man ! In A IWMlllAn In l Intn Tha nlau By Tommy Fitzpatrieh At least two of the changes In the football foot-ball rulea. aa outlined by tha ruleg com mittee In the Kaat, have met with dis-fr dis-fr Tri?ng v r-r hs "f 1'ie e"w y mountain conference at their meeting held In IVnver. Colo., a few weeks ago. Adjuster C. Henry Hmlth haa forwarded the find Inge of thia meeting; to tha members mem-bers of the conference here In I'tah and these wer teken up at the meeting of the I'tah coaches and offlctala at their meeting In the Commercial club laet week. COACHES VOTE FOR OLD STYLE. Rule Vf. section , of the football rulea, which deala with the kick for point after touchdown, was one of the main topics of diaciisslonand the coachea prcs- ent were In favor of going back to the old ruling, which permitted the kicker to score his extra point by bringing the ball directly In front of the goal post and kicking it over. The rule last aeawor proved 4 be more of a )oks than any-thing any-thing else and a high school athlete could be trained to kick nineteen out of twenty of these goals. This ruling proved very unpopular with the regular football I fan and the Kastern rule committee de- I elded that some change waa needed. The gave he team scoring the touchdown , the chance to put the ball in acrlmmage qn the five-yard Una and taking tha option op-tion of making Ita extra point by a drop kick, place kick, forward pass, end run or a buck across the goal line- ThJa finding find-ing immediately met dtsfavor among the coachea, who declared that the team 1 would have to work aa hard for the one point from the five-yard line aa It does for a touchdown or a field goal from the five-yard line. In other word a, it put more stress on the chance for goal for one point and gives the defensive team a better chance of blocking this one point. Nine tlmea out of ten a good drop kicker should be able to score thia extra point from acrlmmage the rulea aeema to be as much of a )oke aa ever. In Justice to the rules committee. It must be said though that their ordera muat be carried out from year to ywr, and If there are to be but they will penalise severely if a man, I who la entirely out of the play is clipped i from behind. It aeema that tmg interpretation inter-pretation will keep the men on the field awake at all tlmea and will also permit eome of the slower men to get Into action better. If, for example, a 7aat end going down under one of hia own punts gets by the halfback who Is to block him that back haa no other chance to get the end out of the play but to take after blm and clip him aa he la In the act of get- (Continued on page .) schools throughout the country and thla conferenro will do remains lo be seen, but the writer bet laves that most of the games will be played according; to the rulea. BAN ON CLIPPING IN H. S. In the high school g-nmes no clipping will be allowed fmm behind st all, as the of fh-tate and roaches bellevs t hs t the high school lads need more protection from the rules than ths college stars, who should aJwsvs be on the alert for a man who may clip them. It must slways bo remembered that football as It la today la one of the elean-est elean-est orgsnised sports thst tha American collegea bav and that If there are to he any chang-ee in the rules, these must come from t ha ru lee com m 1 1 1 ee. w h ic h has been banded together for the purpose pur-pose of preserving football and making the rulea as they should be. Football Itself Is a game mad up of many rules and thg committee haa a hard time pleasing pleas-ing all. In some of their rules a trvout la the only thing and If they are at error wtth the "coal after touchdown. they will rectify It at their nest annual meeting-, but In the meantime every college rttach and fan should expect to see foot-I foot-I ball played as It should be plaed, according ac-cording to the official foot bull rules, early tn February. LOCALOFRGIALS (Continued from pas I.) line Ihe man wllh the ball.' Another e-ample e-ample of clipping can be brouctit out when'a men ajeta away for a touchdown with a clear field In front of him and la rhaaed by an opponent, who may over-tnke over-tnke the man with the ball. Can a teammate team-mate of Ihe man with the ball clip the man from behind to ,et him out of Ihe play? The t'oloredo meeting eaye that tlil. can be done, but the njlee. Inter, preted llterelly. aey no. There la argument argu-ment on both eldea. but the writer agreee with the Interpretation made In Colorado. Colo-rado. Clipping le a dengeroue thing In football. 11 le true, but If In the above caeea man le not permitted lo ellp. then Ihe aggreeelveneea la taken away from the game to aome eatent. The football player will nol eland back and eee one of hie own men. who can make a touchdown, run down from behind when he la able lo clip the man out of ihe play. Theae were the Iwo Important thlnaa dlatuaaed at the meeting and It eeeme that the flrat artlon of ihe official, and . coai hee waa all wrong, ae Ihe rule on ihe kick after touchdown la plain enough and cannot be changed, but Ihe "clipping" "clip-ping" rule haa only been Interpreted In a different way without regard lo the changing of any r.rea Jnet what the |