Show I OBJECT TO FORWARD PASS I Coach Stagg Will Wili Urge Modification Modification Modification cation to Rule for Next Year y ear Chicago Dec Dee 14 Coach A Alonzo Stagg of ot the University of Chicago will urge urse modifications of ot the forward pass and arid changes in a number of less Important features of the current gridiron game when hen the intercollegiate football rules committee in New York Dee Dae 27 ft The maroon director said yesterday that he would suggest several radical changes in the statutes governing the forward pass which will tend to remove the pres present present ent prominence of chance in its execution execution execution tion I object to the too great element of chance which has resulted from the pres pros present present ent oat rules surrounding the forward pass The best feature of or football has always been that the best team can win on its merits and I dislike to see BOO this condi condition c condition tion lion upset I believe in chance but not In so much of it as is now possible In Inmany Inman Inmany many man cases this year the forward pass allowed teams to get down the field by bys sheer s eer chance One of the things needed is some way to insure that only onlo eligible men touch the ball ban on the forward pass Only the themen themen men one yard hack bark of the line tine of scrim scrimmage scrimmage scrimmage mage and the ends should touch the ball after it is passed but this year in some cases practically all the men on the eleven touched the ball illegally Michigan Man Says This Play Adds Too Much Uncertainty Uncertainty Uncertainty to Game Ann Arbor ArDor Mich Dec 14 Coach Yo Yost t has left the city and so his opinion about the efficiency of the forward pass could not be b obtained d But Manager Manag r Baird Ba who is an nn old M man himself lf and who has fathered Michigan athletics for years did not hesitate to speak on the point I think that the forward pass has many things meriting commendation he said sald It has made the game more spectacular lar and has opened up a wide road In football foot ban tactics that has never before been developed On the other hand there are serious objections to the forward pass paSt It has brought into the science of ot football an element of uncertainty Frequently the result of a football game Is decided by chance An inferior team driven to reck may triumph over Ocr a stronger and anda a more deserving team through the for outcome of uncertain playing In conclusion I may state that the forward pass ought to be abolished un less rules can be devised which will per permit p permit r mit the adoption of a style of play in which skill and science rather than chance secure the reward of victory |