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Show NEW FOOTBALL BOLES 1 More Changes in Store for Pigskin Euthusiasts. N12W YORK. April 10. More chanKes W are promised In the football rules. -l- Ihousrh It is too early In the year to get any definite Idea of the football plans of tlic loading colleges for tho comlnp season It Is evident that moderation will be the ' keynote In the sport next fall. j 'flic, suggestion that tho rulo of last 3 ear preventing more than four playcVa being- behind the lino between the twen- i ty-flve yard marks be made to apply to I tho whole playing field s a straw .that ft shows which way the wind blows. The rules committee last season frankly :ul- I mltted thnt thLs regulation was an ex- H perlment aimed' jo satisfy tlio demand for I less mass play and moro open Held work. i Desplio the protests of ft certain clique of I roaches the rule met with great favor D among the spectators at the big games Hi and In no way detracted from the sport. I n fact, po popular was the move that I j there has sprung up a demand for a simi lar rulo which shall include tho entire Is Kddlron rather than a restricted portion I of the Held, and the rules committee will I. ac-rlously consider tho question at its I) meeting this month. If Another rcnturc of the schedules an il' nounced to date is the absence of mid- 11 week games. In past years it has been k the custom to arrange a numbor of such contests for the early part of the season. Till? fall the case will be quite the re-v.. re-v.. crse. Princeton will play but three V t mid-week gam's. Its opponents being V Dickinson, Wesleyan and Lafayette. At Hl. Harvard but two will be played when the Crimson meets Bowdoln and Bates. |