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Show f Football Rules Are Proving Great Success &por Has Regained Popular Favor and New Game Has Come to Stay. I&W. M. MACBETH. jpVORK, Nov. 10 A game &t, Is a gamo is tho itTardict 5n football as placed 1ft 1012 rules. The grid-fctfpTcases, grid-fctfpTcases, first of all, ilio KJi "it pleases the coaches, h'r$ and the great student lffJtook a, great deal of jj6nd cxporinicnt to rosur-E.X rosur-E.X blood-tingling autumn Etom the debris of popular 'following' tho crusade ihected the good, old-fash-tao.,of six years ago." Tho fco;.eeoma to have been well fcjTnitt aud the trouble. Udgame came into disfa-tiu$e disfa-tiu$e of the dangers in-Hr'ii. in-Hr'ii. And these samo a discouraging in-Witho in-Witho elemont most dircct-wtnfld dircct-wtnfld tho student body, ine'iifcht down to cases, it t'.of mnsclo aud brawn, Pitcompctition of skill. Jt smash, smash through j'iJJ Ho lime, with now and i-eiid run or a variation ivWjnst to keep the oppo-lon oppo-lon the anxious scat, toft human battering rum IpcK) out the weakest apot; line on which to center on , jMiTwoe betide tho ob.ioct Plunder tho old rules, -was Wtqral advantage, but not 1 a vital issue. Brute pcarac first,, last and all le; The primitive qualifi-Splj qualifi-Splj class was stamina to louder punishment; power Hthroygn a wall of human Ifcf Under such conditions w, maturallv devolved into al of( the fittest. Iotic pWnt Jnijjhfc play with any ',ofcafoty. Weaklings had l&.-'bu tho gridiron. Speed, tpifg combined counted for fc'ess supplemented by cx-H'pbyaical cx-H'pbyaical power. . Jtnp no played now seems ijjhininatfd all the ob.jec-icalure3 ob.jec-icalure3 of tho old stylo fllui at the samo time re- , Ml the more desirable" jls. Tt is. quito true that Irtfiw noypr meant for in-js in-js a game that rc-wfain rc-wfain physical perfections. UWJior is, hulk ;md beef tho HWi(c. Speed counts as iw&wn, aud the ngilo, light BfrWfrfeutly sound, lias a JglJfO Id sliiuo than tho Ruu.iiKing giant. Modern y.U wore than ever a gamo Bcar these Tuelrictious Pve bccii eliminated and the kiiniinediately como into yrf It is very spectacular Pw td the general public. w. oponiug for a liglit Rmakc consistent gains OUld bo uttcrlv impos-WUQ impos-WUQ through a. heavier line. Rlv17,,1133 four cbaiices, Rfi i wlatever savo tho . HRO ball in case of absolute H ,nako the necessary ten HWfncc. Ono properly cxe- HSSu J5158 ifJ 00' tT ''oh-Plt ''oh-Plt thi3 amount. With Hli 9 Procicnoy a woll-Rjieven woll-Rjieven should mako good Kllli p-1? of foUr attcmpU. BuLu c rward pa- has RinC r?tb.all, but it lias. mfflF m?Vol0Pa 1 5ts grcat-RlC grcat-RlC ifl further it' is per- HTik Un.cxPectod scoring ido spiotuof uncertainty Ktttr,?rop';Vtl0 1111 t,iat is jKJJP3- Wonfforful indeed K.f ProgroH.? undor the Kr! f nr this season. Tt jK "v e Vro8eut code is here BKf Kti2abUlt! between Yale tehevo that riar-IBwiffi riar-IBwiffi fS. 80und thrashing HwVfiff (cl?r that Cun- to date as is IwWf Te but it iB 'IPffeiSfJ. th' Cambridge JK ffiL'Amo of ifc gainst frfcn 1 ,c to o tv PliKiii ,. cluinipions were 'Eift na'rvard'a cx- JHNSithaT,oca' Pr(vod lifm Tof.vi oxPort gpal sliaro. 5 X?r was in lis deadlr U Prince- ton's chances as was the toe of Brickley. , DeWitt was plainly off color in his booting and on every oxchange of punts the Tigers lost from ton to twenty yards. Polton has a spiral punt -which -was aided by the peculiar air currents of tho Btadium. Tho Tiger players were complotcly nonplussed at handling Fclton's kicks. Sometimes tho boots wore misjudged Kevoral yards. While Harvard 's victory was clean-cnt it was poor play by Princoton that left many of tho openings. There might have been a. different story had tho Jungaleers been favored by a little moro lucltboforo tho Crim-. f ' solved Old Nassau's forward pu.-.". Cloan catches of two wonderful won-derful throws by Androws -would have spelled two more touchdowns. OlsTZ of tbo greatest objections to the old. style of play was the fact that the general attack -was confined to mass formations. There was practically no open-field -work. It was impossible from the 6tands to follow the ball by play. Invarlwbly tho man carrying tho spheroid was completely scrccnod by bis" interference.! ISxcopt for a punt, a criss-cross, an end run or somo of tho fow variations from the battering ram stylo of attack, the spectator was in a 3ca of bewilderment be-wilderment from sturfc to finish. Tho -forward pass was mapped originally to open out the gamo through tho nocossity of scattering scatter-ing tho defonse. In this it served ita purpose to some, degree. Yet 'the forward pass at first was looTccd nppn -with great disfavor bv tho coaches. There were too many roctrictious attached, and po unifies for its failure, to be.' properly com- plctcd mado it. a rather questionable question-able wca.pou. OisE of Harvard's goals from field was directly duo to a fumble by I)e"Vitt almost at his own gonl Jino on a pass for a punt. When he did kick finally, Brickley mado a free catch and. immediately uiudo bis wonderful 50-yard boot from placement. Harvard's touchdown was duo to tho desperatlou with which the-Tigers the-Tigers cluug to tho forward pass a'fter it had outlived, its special usefulness for that day. Three times . tlio Crimson intercepted tosses .in tho shadow of the Tiger goal lino aud tho last timo hammered tho lino for fifteen j-ards and a inuch-eoveted inuch-eoveted sooru. At that, on the two-vard lino tho lighter Princoton lino 'braced and held for threo successive suc-cessive downs. The Ynln-IJarvard game tins year will probably bo a sido issue to tho fight between "Lefty" Plynn, on tho ono sido, and Brickley aud Pclton on the other. The big Yalo fullback can boot like Folton and ho can smash the lino like Brickley.. Tn tho latter Harvard hnsa distinct advantage, however, for ho ono on the Yale team can compare with tho crimson back in booting goals from tho flold. Yalo is out. to stop Bricldey, just as Harvard is out to spiko tho 'guns of Plynn. If both these stars survive tho fray they should furnish a lino of tho most spectacular individual effort over witnessed on any gridiron. |