Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-14 | Page 8 | Forward Pass Will be Retained by Football Rules Committee

FORWARD PASS WILL BE RETAINED BY FOOTBALL RULES COMMITTEE New York May Ma 13 The Intercollegiate football rules committee today decided to retain the forward pass unrestricted The committee framed a number of rules designed to safeguard this and aud other plays and then ad adjourned adjourned sine die having completed the task of reforming football which has kept It busy buS since the first of February The details of the new nen game were left leftin leftIn leftIn in the hands of o a subcommittee com corn composed composed posed of Walter alter Camp of o Yale Dr Carl Williams of the University of Pennsylvania and arid Percy Perc D Haughton of o Harvard but as the new are largely theoretical it is admitted the precise results will not be known until the next football season is under underway way wa Having weakened the offense by b the new rules previously adopted a method had to be Invented to strengthen the of offense offense offense as an offset and great gr at effort efort was expended to formulate a plan for re retaining retaining taming the forward pass Without it under new restrictions scoring would be so difficult the Interest of the game would be almost destroyed Under the rules adopted today toda the player making the pass must be at least five yards behind the scrimmage line when the pass is made and the player receiving the ball must not be bemore bemore bemore more than 20 yards ards in advance of the place where the ball was passed Only the end man on the line of scrimmage and the four men in the back field are eligible ell bible to receive the forward pass and the backs In order to be eligible must be at least one ona on onard yard ard behind the line of scrimmage when the ball is put in play pIa The committee adopted a rule which reads In case a player with the ball crawls after the ball Is declared dead his team shall be penalized five yards ards The committee adopted a provision that any player withdrawn from the game for any cause except disqualification disqualification disqualification cation may return once at the begin beginning beginning beginning ning of any subsequent quarter This is to allow a tired player to recuperate and to remove the temptation to keep players in the game when they the are not in fit condition