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Show 11' 1915 dfffi II FOOTBALL RULES Coaches Generally Pleased With Amendments, but Puzzled About One. Football coaches arc well y.'letn e,l w illi the changes in tlic rules made by the contra committee, in session in iew 1'ork recently. Tlie oliaupes wnro ex-poct.cil, ex-poct.cil, anil now that they linvo been wrillon into tho foolhull law bool: coaches expect to peo less contusion ro-KardittR ro-KardittR t(H'.bnic,alitie8 on tho liolii next full. There is one point, however, that bnlhei's some, of tlic coaclie:.. Thai is Hie, olio ciuiceniiiipi sidii linn coiichi nij. They belino l.lifit it, was n yood ttuiii; to limit tlm substituting oi' plnver.s to the hi'i;iniiintr 'it' periods, tint. Iliev ilo not see how that will bar the so-called side lino eoneliiiiu 1 'niieerii inif this point ljuach Ihiwsuu of -Mount Union nays: It 1h my belief that fnofluill on-tliusinsts on-tliusinsts waul to see football tilriveil aloni.' seieutillc (ine. The lielier tljn a'lle the more 1lle pub lie t ill enjoy il. ''hf do not enjoy en-joy IL yame where I lie tennis pln.v poor,-, bold menlnll- and ,lisl-eallv. ,lisl-eallv. I.hlf l!ie- do enjov a gallic Hint in lull of rood fmilluill. t'ootbllll nut horil ies hii e been aiLfuin ai'iiiusl the presence of 1 ho coach on (lie liebl. bust year llu PlifljeJ ii lulo inuKintf it ciunpulsno' for a coach to remain on the bench during tiie uropress of a came. This year, further to limit the coach soniluirr instructions lo his plavers while ibo yaiiic is lvine plaved, Ihey have linute,l the time pluvors uia.v be substitute.l. Hut still thev 'li.-ivn not ilono away wilh tlio sido line ciiachinti. Coaches are expected to cive, the players instructions before tho i-'nme starts and between the luilves. Xow. when :i new player is sent into the (ame, is it nut, tho duty of the coach to tell that, player somethinc of tho faults of the team? Suppose the coach were forced outside the inclosure duiii)), aaine n ml the captain bo tho uiaii to judiro t he physical tit ness of the ihiver? The captain of the team, if ho is playing the tramo, Uncmn but little of tho condition of some of the members of the team. The ollicials nre not always the best .judges of a man's condition, and if it were not for the coach who is on the sido lines and can tell by tho position a man takes in th'c line-up whelher he is phvsically lit, there mi); lit- be a lot of plavor's injured. in-jured. Dawson is pleased thai the rule was ,'h,'iiu;c,l enncernhn; a forward puss thai is touched by two p lasers uf he satin lonni. Under the old rule if a piave-touched piave-touched the ball and it. then slipped into another man's arms of tho s.-nne team before il touched on opponent, th, side inakiu!; the pass lost t ho ball.' Under Un-der the new rulinn th:it play Tvould be an ineoinplete.,1 pass and the offensive team Hiiuld lose n down. This ruliiu' is much fairer thiin the old one, whicii u as mi Severn |