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Show jFEW CHANGES TO-i TO-i BE MADE IN RULES I Now York. Fob. 1. Tho football ' rules will come up for their annual comblng-out on Friday and Saturday t of this week, when the rules commlt-j commlt-j tee meets hero. It is. probable that j few changes will be made. The revision revi-sion of last year was a thorough going go-ing one, and tho ' policy this year 7is likely to be ono of "let well enough alone." The main object of tho radical changes in the rules last year was fairly well accomplished the roduc-tlon roduc-tlon of injuries on tho grliMron. There Is now no sweeping public demand for further alterations and there are no threatening cries of abolishing the game such as spurred the rule-makors rule-makors to action at that time. Many of tho coaches of the teams at the larger universities do not approve ap-prove of the forwnrd pass. This was shown by its infrequent use In the larger games last fall. They refusod to encourage it because at best it was a speculation whore, It could be played successfully. Their Influence may be fell at tho meating. Harvard led the forward pass contingent at last year's mooting and won b a small' Vote. Princeton and Yalenro not enthusiastic advocates of It. E. K. Hall of Dartmouth, the sccre-. sccre-. tnry of the committee, favors some arrangement whereby a, team will hajc a better chance of gaining the required distance of advancing the ball in four downs. He favors a rule requiring a gain of fifteen yards in five downs, or three yards for each down. The new four-period rule will be freely discussed. The three-Inute intermission in-termission between periods has come in for some criticism, but there Is general favor for changes of goal, because be-cause ii equalizes the advantage of wind and sun. The rules committee is made up of Walter Camp, Yale; Park H. Davis, Princeton; Crawford Blagdon, Harvard; Har-vard; Alonzo A Stagg, Chicago; Prof. L. M. Dennis, Cornell; Dr. Carl Williams, Wil-liams, Pennsylvania; Lieut. V. W. Cooper, West Point; Dr. Harry L. Williams, Minnesota: Dr. W. L. Dudley, Dud-ley, Vnnderbilt. C. W- Savage, Ober-Iln, Ober-Iln, Dr James A. Babbitt, Haver-ford, Haver-ford, and E. IC Hall, Dartmouth. |