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Show FOOTBALL IN FOUR HALVES. After long cogitation, the Intercollegiate Intercol-legiate Football Rules committee has announced the changes which iho game will undergo this autumn. The time of play is divided into four periods peri-ods of fifteen minutes' duration, instead in-stead of the traditional two halves of thirty-five minutes each. The usual intermission of fifteen minutes Is maintained between the second and third period; but an Intermission of three minutes only Is allowed between the first and second and the third and fourth periods. At the beginning of the second and fourth periods the teams change goals, but the down, the relative spot of the down,' possession posses-sion of the ball and distance to be gained remain as they were. Another radical change eliminates the flying tackle. The player must have at least ono foot on the ground when tackling an opponent A player is only qualified to receive a forward pa6s who is at leat one yard back of his own scrimmage line, or occupies the position on the end of said line. No man may make a forward pass, or kick the ball, unless he is five yards back of his scrimmage line. Interlocked Inter-locked Interference is forbidden, and It Is also forbidden for aDy man on the side having possession of the ball to push or pull tbe man running with the ball. There are other less startling start-ling changes, all tending. It Is assumed, assum-ed, to make the game less dangerous. From Collier's for September 3. |