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Show STILL MAKING ! FOOTffMLES Although Season Has Opened, Committee Has Not Yet Completed Com-pleted Its Work. FORWARD PASS PENALTY STILL REMAINS UNFIXED Clinic of Fifty "Big Eight" Officials Offi-cials and Coaches Adopt Interpretations. By Associated Pi ess. NEW YORK, Sept? 17. The football season Is already open, but the new rules are still In process of formation. The intercollegiate rules committee, which formulated them, met today and sat well Into the evening in an effort to reconcile recon-cile their theories of last spring with the facts brought out by a summer of experiment. ex-periment. Several points in doubt were cleared up, but others remain. The question of forward pass penalties Is still open. Many thought that under rule IS, as now worded, a nluyer may run any numbor of yards nnd then mako a forward pass. Others thought not, and no docision was reached. Chairman Walter Wal-ter Camp held that tho rule permits a player to make a forward pass behind the line of scrimningc. The whole matter mat-ter was referred to the sub-committee. Tho word "catch" In rule IS was changed to "touch." so that the rule r.-ow reads- "Players of tho side which puts the ball In play may not in any way interfere in-terfere with their opponents until the ball has been 'touched' by a player of cither side, except, etc." Rule 2 forbids a return kick of any sort, but Mr. Camp said the sub-committee would be asked to revoke it. Meanwhile Mean-while th- rule must be observed. Tho language of rule .'! mystified some of the coaches, and only half of the mvs-terywa.s mvs-terywa.s solved. It was decided thai a player removed for cause, that is, for infraction in-fraction of the rules, mav not be returned, re-turned, but It was not settled whether a player removed for injuries may be returned re-turned if he recovers during the game. Torgets Penalty. In tho original draft of tho new rulen the commit teo forgot to impose a penalty on tho side whoso guard receives the ball in a snapback. as forbidden by rule !, section f. which was aimed at mass plays. Chairman Camp said that a pen-?.,.t-yl. of, ,lvo 5'ards would be Imposed, u iln the exception of guards, any plavcr may receive the ball after it has been put in play by any one player of his own side. i Jm was.llc,(I tlmt a runner with the ball who h.'i3 lallon may not he helped lo his feet. Inasmuch as It comes under the word muting" in the clause of rule 10 forbidding putting, pushing and holding. Whether a player Is liable lo penally for milling his hands on oilier plavers of his own side was left to the subcommittee. subcommit-tee. If the ball hits an official after It has been in play it was decided that the play may bo repeated. |