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Show W 3TAGQ WILL ADVOCATE Ji ), CHANGES IN FOOTBALL RULES It -' CWcaeo, Feb. 2. Coach A. A. Stagg if 3 of the University of Chicago will ba, fMi i an advocate for football slmplificatloh fi rj af the nunual meeting of tho National ; Football rules committee, to be held X tomorrow in New York. He will leave for the cast today, prepared to urge the committee to avoid complications in the 1011 statutes and free the same from some of the Intricate regulations on the forward pass smd on-side kick. Stagg will take with him the suggestions sug-gestions of a number of western coaches and university officials who have sent him their Ideas regarding the now rule book. The consensus of opinion among the western critics is that the 1910 rules should be allowed to stand, except for minor changes in the forward pass and kicking rules. Among the suggestions which he will lay before the committee will bo recommendations to eliminate tho twenty-yard zone on the on-sldo kick, to reduce the twenty-yard zono on kicks to ten yards: to remove the restrictions re-strictions limiting the forward pass to. twenty yards, and to place more emphasis em-phasis on the prohibition of interference interfer-ence with ends going down on kicks when rthln the twenty-yard zone. 00 |