| Show HES OFF YEAR ON THE GRIDIRON Critics Say Blue Is Slow at New Rules and Material Below Par BY W S FARNSWORTH Xe New York Tork Nov 00 5 It Is ill off year ear in football Both Princeton and an Harvard HarY n appear to have haft their annual struggles with the big blue team slashed to the mast ma already They rhey dont know what hat It is III to quit at New NewHaven NewHaven ew Haven however and the bulldog may maj ma show up stronger stranger in her final anal games of or the season sea on that is expected The a day at Yale field with the EH Ell gridiron warriors and tUMI could not but notice that da tie Q o spite coaches coache and aDd ad ho n tW candidates he hUe grasped the Uon which the new rules rulea afford arran i There are io two tW distinct reasons why Yale been successful ful this thia sea season season season son One because she has hs boOn been be o woe woefully woefully wOefully fully slow in getting on to the new n rules ruiN and secondly because the ma material material Is far below par INU Already the hammers hammen are work workIng workIng I I Ing big at New NOW Hevan Hean Yale should have havea a regular coach like Harvard has In I Percy Houghton and not appoint t the previous seasons captain is one cr ot cry heard ll ard along Chapel street Now this la is a joke Ted Coy greatest g te t of ot all football players is doing just as much muchas as a any an other oIlier man nan could do He knows time the th game from top tol to bottom and would prove Just JUlit as aa successful fUl a coach as 5 he was sn player if he be had bad the ma material to Work on He lIe ie Is not at fault for tor tile New showing In Intact tact fact he deserves great credit for tor the little real reat ren football that has bas been die i played by the wearers of the blue i Since Walter alter Carl hurried back from the Pacific coast st the Yale candi candidates candidates dates have improved in their work but there is nothing startling to re 18 port The he writer asked Mr Camp ramp what he ha thought of the new rules rul now tOw that they have hae been given a pretty thor thorough thoroUGh thorough ough test teat To my m surprise he made madea a weak eak complaint He said Suppose a punter standing behind W hi own goal kicks kiJ and one ofte of the bucks banks of ot his own on side Ide is interfered by an opposing player inside JtB zone e The rule gives gin tb to the offended side aide where the tho thou u lQ occurred that is Iii behind the in ln other words counts countis as is asa touchdown j a This Is clearly too great greata a penalty I for tor what oat might have hae been accidental interference Injuries I J The new mew rules in prohibiting pr moss mane and interlocking pla plays a have clearly lessened the number of injuries There I Iare 1 are however many tn infringements of ot the new rules Some are de tie j others are ro not noL It is ia difficult I Ito for to the 3 to tn see ee all the viol lola thins Hun of the rulO There is much hold holding holding ing In the rush line and the receiver i I of the forward passes is 18 not prOtect project projected ed eti as II fully CUll as the he ne new rules rulea meant him I to b be The are na us n watched enough in fn all cases 1 Everywhere i went I urged players player en enand I and officials to live up to the spirit of ot the new ew rules lules as the best bast the rules committee frame at the present time Lime timen Reading n between the lines linN ot of Mr rr I II Camp statements one U js led to be believe I Hew lieve that he Io Is Ia anxious to td have a mid season seaon n revision of ot the rules He inti intimate mates mate i that sQ changes seem feces naces necess s ary before the important games He H hopes bopo this kind of a move is ili not going I to be carried so en far tar that Yale Yate will I cuRie come down to time the final struggle with witha I Ia a lot of ot interpretations or of their own t tand and to force them on In an effort to get Jut cut ut of ot a bad peal position Ii tion I Dartmouth Is Strong I They ThO are worrying more at Har i i I ard yard over tilt the game with Dartmouth j i i than the Ue one WIth Yale The th ti former ft |
