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Show FOOTBALL RULES TO BE LEFTMEED Only Minor Amendments Expected When Committee Commit-tee Meets in February. The footlvill rules committee will meet in February to consider changes in the uTldiron code. It is not likely that any material chaneca will he made, the idea heing that tiie pame. now well on its way to standardization, had better bo left alone. Minor changes, ba.sed on experience experi-ence of the season just closed will, however, how-ever, be made, and if suffKestiona are follow, fol-low, d stipulations mav result which, not ton. inns the liody of the same, v ill. ne -erthek-s, involve elianu'ej coii-uitiims coii-uitiims for piayers and speetatuis. One authority would assign a certain number of plays to each iuarter, thereby there-by doinc away with a timekeeper. This would be a radical step, yet in some ways a fcoc-1 onet s;nC(i , would do av.ay with the tedious taking out of time and the Playing to kiil time. There should certainly be somethinc d-iiie aloit f.iljialiie i t! t er;re:ire wlt'n the re-.-.-iM-r of a forward pass. The present p.ualty is inadequate. Harvard players in tho rrinceion came found that by kno. kir.: biwn a re eiver -iio was dear t'eev ( ouid excliane a .10 or -i"-yard cvin into a 15-vard fvenalty: a rul that i.riMU-s about s-cli a na pp.-ol i, if cucour-. cucour-. ,-. - '.arl I" Tin: rr.aMipIc Jck anU " kir.i; ii l.i-ll from - ,n b-fc-l will probably be acted on, the rule as they stand permitting field goala to be made in tills manner. There Is no prospect that the necessity of kicking a Roal after touchdown wlil be abrogated. On the whole, the game is coming down to a bedrock basis, and when various little points are cleaned up and the forward pass system has been either eliminated or adjusted with regard to relative details, there eecins no reason why tho rules committee should have, a great deal to do at Its annual meeting. |