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Show HEW FOOTBALL RULES 101 SATISFACTORY Game Is Rougher and Weaker Team Can Score With Luck. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. Nov. 2. The new football foot-ball rules are far from proving satisfactory. satisfac-tory. "With a little luck the weaker team is just as likely to win as the superior one. And tho real object for which the rules were lnvtcntcd has proven a flat failure the game today Is much moro rough than when flying wedges and such were allowed. , The most enthusiastic friend3 of the "new football," whose nignillrant features fea-tures are the ten-yard rule and the forward for-ward pa.s. are discouraged by what they have seen and heard of the frames so far played. They arc almost ready to agree that the new icarne Is Impracticable.. Those who still believe that the new game, being still In Its Infancy, should be given a fair chance lo grow and develop, de-velop, have, lo admit that no signs of the required growth were made apparent In recent biy games. It looks as if fully half of the games between well matched and highly expert elevens would result Indecisively, Inde-cisively, and many of tho other games would be decided by luck, which has been so successfully injected Into what was once a game of skill. What is wanted is a game In which luck shall be quite subordinate sub-ordinate to skill and in which even a slight 'margin of superiority will be re-venled re-venled by tho final score. The forwaid pass appears lo have accomplished ac-complished the purpose of loosening the defense to meet IU but as a standard means of gaining ground it has been a j lamentable failure. The onsidc kick brings an enormous element of luck into tho game, and admittedly should not bo effective ef-fective against an alert defense. The effort ef-fort to gain consistently by straight football foot-ball Is well nigh an Impossible one. where the teams arc still well matched, and tho contrary will become the case only where the effectiveness of defensive playing becomes be-comes Impaired, as It certainly will be as the generation of players who -were schooled to tackle hard and low gives place to that one which will not have learned 'the old lesson, that every fractional frac-tional Inr-h of trodden turf must bo won or defended desperately. |