Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-12-31 | Page 8 | Wants Shape Changed

WANTS SHAPE CHANGED i Wisconsin Wiscon in Football Coach Thinks Ball Should Be Made Hade Longer Ed Cochems the old Wisconsin star and now flOW coach for the St Louis university football team has given Coach Stagg of the University of Chicago a suggestion to present to the rules committee in the east this winter which he believes will modify the depressing conditions a light fast team meets with on a muddy slip slippery slippery slippery pery field Cochems idea Is Js that the present ball used is a trifle too cumbersome for the forward pass By lengthening it a couple of Inches and giving tho the ball bail more moro taper tapering taperIng tapering ing ends with a bulge in tho the center he says a coach could reduce the fumbling tumbling on a rainy days Increase In the drives and give the snapper greater hold on the ball bait balland balland and a surer longer pass By B increasing the length of oC the ball I believe it can be kicked ten yards further and a wider gridiron would be needed he said The wider field would give more open space for rhe he new kind of work