Show I i THINKS NEW NE RULES ARE IMPROVEMENT Eliot of Harvard Says Football Will Be Tolerably Safe Cambridge MIlS Mass Ma March SL President Emeritus Charles W Eliot of Harvard paid his respects r to the Intercollegiate football rules commute committee today after re reviewing reviewing reviewing viewing their labors In New York Ho He thinks the proposed changes are distinctly good He said It is plain to see sea that these rules are ar a marked Improvement and they ought to make the game gama tolerably safe sate I 1 say tolerably because these rules should make It more possible for tor a man to play through three ears of college football without being seriously hurt This was not snot possible under the other rules no one can tell what real effect the Min new change will have on the game until they are thoroughly tried out It Is easy to see that the committee Itself is la not certain Still I 1 should say that these rules certainly are improvements William Garcelon graduate treasurer of the tho Harvard Athletic association said I think that the new rules are excellent JS in that they will likely prevent many of the serious injuries that have happened when a man went through the center of the line IIno on a mass play The Tho center of the too line play has caused many serious in juries to the neck and spine of the play er with the ball Of Ot course the tho game of ot football will never be absolutely free from flam injuries but the chance for serious I injuries will be 00 greatly diminished |