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Show I REFORMS IN GAME I ON THE GRIDIRON Brutality and Foul Play in Fnot-j Fnot-j ball Will Have to ) Stop. PEXXSY TAKES INITIATIVE IN THE PROPOSED REFORM Seiids Letter on Subject to I Heads of All Schools in Country. PHILADELPHIA. Nov i. Following the suggestion of President Roosevelt for B uniform eligibility FUlM In . . .1 1 .-u ' ath- H letlct and for the elimination of unne.ce.s- B nary roughness, brutality and foul play In football, the University of Fennsyl-vartla Fennsyl-vartla baa token the Initiative for tho suggested reforms and lias addressed a circular letter on the subject to the heads nil universities. colleges, private BCtlOOlfl nnl other Institutions In tho lulled State Interested In athletics. 'This action was taken after a number of meetings of the university committee on athletics of the University of Pennsyl- ania. at which thr President's thoughts "ii the subject u.-r. dl-i insiiI The 1 mlucc formulated rules which It thought H would meet the Situation, and decided to H send them to the authorities of all cdu- H c.itlonal Institutions In the country for nslderation and adoption If they met with approval The I'nlverslty of Penn- -ivlvanla Is willing to request Its repre-H repre-H sentattve on the football rules committee. to vote for the changes In penalties sug-B sug-B w steel. The rules proposed are as fol- Representatives in Contests H 1 No ittldent iliall he allowed to -reprment H any roflaga or tmlvatsltir in inter. : i- ut t H atllletie contMtl until he has been In rel- H i there a bona Me tudent for an H cadtmli year, end shall haw j.h ..! 1 1 - - H i EOT riHiidnatlolis on a course of study hi B e ..in l ids lo fi.r a degree; Or, If a vpoclal or H rrrtial Sludl-nt, shall hne taken a courso H which require! at least Arisen hours per H k. anil -linl! hav- r-b'l satlnfactory ex- H emulation on subject ajrgi'cfratlnff at eal H twelve houra of such courses No student shall H le-present hl coheir, or unlverult) In Inter- H POllegtata athlStlC contest unless he shall H he at thO time In gol acudemlc . r. II n k In H the clujs of whUh he Is a memboi Authorities May Discriminate. H No Klud.-nt dhall le Allowed to represent H Ml college or university In Intercollegiate ath- B telle contests who ahull at oiiv time have H ti-ughl or rn gaged In any athletic sport for a, H jtccunlory or other consideration; or who shall H at any time have received for taking part lu H any athletic sport or contet. any pecuniary H gain or emolument whatever, direct or Indl- H r.ct. with tho exception that he may have rr- H oelvad the amount !' the mrpOTHM necennarlly H li eurred by him lu taking part In such sport H or contest exceeding his ordinary expenses In B applyteg this rule the onutltutivl nu:hor1tes H hell discriminate tetween the deliberate um Of athletic skill as a means to a livelihood. H nd technical, unintentional or youthful In- H fiactlonn of the rules. Intercollegiate Contests. 1 "! No Mtirlent shall reprr-nt one or rnnrs H 'uilv ersltlea or oollegei In Intercollegiate con- H testa for more than four years In determln- H lug what constitutes a university or rollegA H v. Ithln the meaning of this rule, due consld- H -ration -hall bo given to the athletic and H cbolaxUc standing of the Inalltutlone repre- H rented. A student, wl.o from any cause par- H tk'lpalc In Intercollegiate athletic contests, H -luring only a small fractional part of a year, niay In succeeding year be charged with --nly that pari of the year which Is ecjulva-lent ecjulva-lent to that In which lie participated during the Incomplete year Regulating- Eligibility. t The rules regulating ellglblilty an formu-lated formu-lated In thla codo Khali he Interpreted as rep-r, rep-r, renting merely a required minimum. No student shall b c-onsldered ellglblo to repre-:- nt his college or university n athletics merely because he satlsfled ihea- minimum i nulrement but It ahall be the duty of th CI r.aUtuted authorities to determine whether It Is best, all things considered, for any par-ilcular par-ilcular Btndant, or what In.iUtutlon that ha t e permltu.i to become Its r preaentatlvc In KBV branch of athletic The committee in, Ipsed a copy of a oommunlcatlon received by it from tho I oard of coaches which (so far as It fools itself competent to deal with the technicalities of. football) meets with its approval. Discuss the Abuses. The hoard of coaches discusses the abuses to which football has been sub-Jc.-ted and venture the opinion that the danger of Injury In mass plays Is more ipparent than real. Nine-tenths of all H serious injuries, the board says, occur In so-called open play. The board sug-BBtS sug-BBtS the following changes in the pluy-H pluy-H ing rules. Change in Playing Rules. Por "unnecessary roughness, ' "piling H up." "the use of the open hand, or el- H bows, etc.," a penalty of twenty-five yards !" Inflicted; for ths offense of slug-King slug-King with th- flat, If "kneeing" or of other cuoll nnsje irtsmanllke net Ion. thai the player not only be disqualified I by removal from th- game, but that for i lit remainder of the half In which tho ffenso occurred his If-am be ol.llgi .1 to contlnbe tiio game without a substitute I for him and thai the player who shall for the second time In one season lc I penalised for brutality shall be Ineligible H to represent any college or university H for tli- remuliuli r of the season. |
