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Show FOOTBALL REFORM COMMITTEE MEETS Tentatively Agrees That Ten Yards Must Be Gained in Three Downs. NEW YORK. Fcb. 10. Ten yarda to bo gained In three downs wna the principal football foot-ball reform tentatively agreed upon at a meeting of tho national Intcrcollcclato football foot-ball rules committee In this city today. This rule, if finally adopted, the football experts believe, will do morovthan anything else toward to-ward opining up tho game. After todoy'a meeting, the secretary of tho commltteo, W. T. Iteld, Jr., of Harvard, explained that nono of tho rules suggested either today or at tho conference two weeks ago had been finally adopted, The committee Is framing a aot of rules covering different points of tho game and when tboro ore all covered the completed rules then will be voted upon. The committee adjourned to meet again Saturday. March 1!, In this c'tr. Doubles Distance to Be Gained. In adJltlon to aarcolng upon the ten-yard rule, whicn exnetly doubles the dlstanco to bo gained In three downs under the playing rules of tho past several years, tho committee agreed upon the following: Must Keep on Their Own Side. "That every player on tho kicking side 6hall bo on sldo when tho kicked ball touches tho ground. "That tho question of affording proper protection pro-tection for the man catching the ball be taken up and carefully defined at tho next meeting. One Pass Shall Be Allowed. "That ono forward pass shall be allowed on a play, provided the ball does not touch tho grouud before bolng touched by a player of either side Such a pass to bo mado by any man who wns behind tho lino of scrimmage when tho ball was put In play. If the ball touchcH the ground before being touched by a player of richer side, It Khali go to tho opponents oppo-nents on the spot from which the pass was mado. The pass shall not be received by a man who was on tho line of scrimmage when the ball was put In play, except for tho two men playing on the ends of tho linn when tho bull was put In piny. A direct lob over tho line within tho ppneo of flvo yards on each sldo of tho center shall bo unlawful." Kothlni; was done with regard to the que?-tlon que?-tlon of a Held laboratory, but Paul Dashlel, on behalf of Annapolis, offered tho Naval Academy Acad-emy Held and Its facilities for uko by tho committee In tho matter. |