Show FOOTBALL RULE REVISION JOB I IS lEFT TO A SUB COMMITTE New York Feb 5 A radical revision of football Is under advisement by the Intercollegiate Rules committee In charge Greater safety for the player and more variety for the spectator are felt to be essential If it the game is to be per permitted permitted by public opinion to live The rules committee adjourned tonight until March 25 26 2 after appointing a sub subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee committee to consider three plans of re reorganization reorganization organization The subcommittee Is com corn composed composed posed of A A Stagg University of Chi Chicago Chicago cago eago Dr W IV Yo L Dudley Vanderbilt uni university university Nashville Tenn and O 0 W Sav SaY Savage Savage I age Oberlin 0 O When the committee reconvenes It will pas paiS formally on recommendations de decided decided upon In the meantime by the sub subcommittee subcommittee subCommittee committee In the main the committee feels that in injuries injuries injuries juries to players are largely due not so much to mass plays as to savage tackles Accordingly it is recommended that I there be no more diving tackles that a rigid physical examination of all candi candidates candidates candidates dates be insisted upon with medical su supervision supervision of all players throughout the season that buffeting with the shoulders of ends racing down the field after the ball be abolished and that the back when receiving a punt be protected on the other hand from unnecessary violence by the ends Under one of the three plans suggested halves would be shortened from thirty five to thirty minutes with fifteen min minutes minutes mm utes intermission and these halves them themselves themselves themselves selves split spilt again into four periods of fifteen fifteen fifteen teen minutes play with intermissions of five minutes I |