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Show WILL INCREASE ACCIDENTS. Former Badger Coach Discusses New J.optball Rules. Tribune Spccizl Sporting Service. The now rules will work great improvement im-provement in the game of football, but you need not look fov any decrease in the number of accidents." ' This is the statement by Dr. Charles McCarthy, director of Lhe Wisconsin legislative reference library and formerly former-ly assistant coach of the University ol Wjs'consip football team. Pr. McCarthy McCar-thy was one of the greatest lootbail stars of Ihc East some years nzo, was the captain of the strongest eleven that ever represented Brown uuiversity, and has the record of making more- Efcorns ainst Vale 3nd Harvard of any nidj-vTdual nidj-vTdual player who ever faced the crim son and blue line. Tn the West lie is looked upon ,as a most fair and reliable official at championship games and as an authority on j.be groat college gaim'. 'fThe 10-Vard rule," he said, "will surely oppn'up the game and will make the element of the 'unexpected' more prominent. It will also maco the game, more spectacular, which will.be an improvement im-provement from the point of viow the spectators and will dcubtleas rud to maintain the popularity of the sport with people generally and this popular-itv popular-itv counts for much in gate receipts, ""But it ifi not to be reasonably ox-prated ox-prated that the percentage of casualties will be reduced. The now game will be a running, dodgiug,, fast and hard tackling tack-ling play. It is not the straight plunges tha.t cause injuries generally- It js when a rn'on is tackled while running fast that ,he strikes -the ground hard and "breaks 'bone3. Then, too. it, not the heavy lineman with "a ton of beef" who gets hurt. It is the little fellow who runs fast and has unlimited pluck. "And that is just why I say you need 1 -not look for fewer accidents in this new game. It will be the little fellow who ' will have the chanee now. Tho day of I the burlv brute with nothing but weight to commend him as a sportsman is gone our! ih fonmc mint 1iq built from tho light, fast, sniflv men- These are the fragile opes. The- will get hurt, I think, more frequently and probably worse than did the big fellows. "Thinlt of the big games you have seen where players were hurt. It was. usually the backfield man who was down and who had to leave tho gamo. Of course the tackles wcro often worn out with getting the brunt of the Huo .plunges, but the accidents that were bad happened when a speedy man was thrown violently while running." Minneapolis Min-neapolis Tribune. |