OCR Text |
Show I EXPERTS JNfi RULES -vjjfed in Game Have ''fjjrial During Iison. RECORD OF M SEVERE TESTS .J&Morc Important 1 tffde in Favor-'port. Favor-'port. A Ung Service. N ISiDec. 8. Now that vnfis practically at an fflbefjinninfj to cet in .-lilies. It is well under-"ffltho under-"ffltho present fall tho . '-ijHriaf. On the issue '1tyy depended its con-' con-' 'Jjpecially gratifying to Vfthe gainc as tliic moat ' ' 'al of the hardy out-"3Mit out-"3Mit it has come through frEpeitfith the most crcdit-?0 crcdit-?0 changes wrought in tjfecn cenerall.y helpful 7gn scarcely a quarter 'iBjihave not'been shojv-'Jtfa shojv-'Jtfa few minor details "'tldisposition to criti-;4 criti-;4 A$it, with the tenor of & ljfit of the play', and the T;M of healthful rival- jn no cause for com- jnuch to say that the JSnth the rules was re-fiistanccs re-fiistanccs as highly im- . jjijfelt by those who had leyelop mass formations Kyle of game could be $u1d be successful. Yet iiis year there have iSfiN o"f contests played txtremely speelacular be sure, when evenly JM&vc met, it has been impossible, to advance Jame became too of-flplfiiate of-flplfiiate kicking duel that ifnand disappointing to ?a) but to the spectator SOthing on this score. ;,tJjeform movement that jljjjje change swept over t3l last year there were lit-thc sport could sur-rffif. sur-rffif. complained of were ngly ineradicable. If )proached with a spirit rat. would have meant ;'7ffl8Continiiance, but the ftjUntial friends who ex-ffijiencc ex-ffijiencc to secure a fair . the wisdom of their Jgybeen amply .iustilied. "ws divided', and thoso of 'distinguished from its ltand by different treat-DalUbeen treat-DalUbeen largely' corrected. AHfulties arc the concern itojand the technical of the -Inition of foul plaj- and Jiregulations against it. Sfcauses of satisfaction, j ' disqualifications for Kfrequont penalties for qgames, but the severity 'Anent has tended to dis-Ht'of dis-Ht'of play more than any Juld, and it is probable "sar will see the almost WSJtion of the eyil. TpTe" changes in the rules ;egamo itself, it is nat-?-yard rule, as the most Ve. should be tho first gent. The ten-yard rule, rtVthe necessity of ad-jjjlin ad-jjjlin three tries, double ihe previous years, whilo blc and certain method 'niaBs play, was elimin- J ?Jbut the "frequent interim inter-im While these are de-fra de-fra doubt, it is possible .wilimitations have been -" : jity in attack and that 'jitoo frequent. Tho ef-jftV ef-jftV give a team posscss-tKfexccptional posscss-tKfexccptional ability in ,derant advantago that ,.";team effort, ouo of the jatand desirable factors '.alt is felt by all those Unpractical experience in S5('8ome'nI1K should be ,fact this tendency, to (JSo its legitimate place, JSn to the other details jxStsidc of this there is Jh the game. Jib tho two new factors, fide kick and tho for- afford the relief that ttfnanded. It was also winning, that extremely 'jfintereating phaso o'f -jfcbaractcriBtic of tha ffifs ago, would be stim-S'tf'ed. stim-S'tf'ed. Experience has fci'that between teams of sSTd running always has will be, impossible, lag of limiting tho end f-WBO that only the uev-,;3rovcd uev-,;3rovcd practicable. 'fjji vturo attended with ,:1ul'inty and hodgod about jjj by too many restrictions to prove of sufficient, force in relieving tho situation. situa-tion. The onside kick lost the ball as often as it gained, and served to emphasize and put a premium on the chances of. misplays. Poor pluying, rather than good, determined the outcome out-come of too many games, though taken all in all there is on one who would wish to withdraw the ouside kick rule. As to forward passes, tho fact that there wero too many ways in which a foul could bo committed to vitiate the good effects prevented them from being tried to the extent that was necessary nec-essary to enable one team to avoid kicking constantly. If tho ball touched tho ground without being touched by a player on cither side on the spot where" tho pass was mnde, this prevented pre-vented forward passes by a team near its own goal, since it could not afford to risk a fault, giving the other team a chance to score then and there. So, too, the restrictions forbidding the ball io bo passed forward except outsido of five vards on cither side of tho center, cen-ter, proventing it being received by nnv plaver except the ends of those on" tho lino of scrimmage, all served to unnecessarily handicap the play. Either something iiiust be done to remove those restrictions or some means must be found to encourage and make possible possi-ble end runs if tho game is not to degenerate de-generate into a kicking duel exclusively-, in defiance of its original intention. |