Show High School Moguls Plan Drive To Cut Down Dowil Gridiron Injuries juries In CHICAGO Jan 10 AP AP Ways Ways and means of providing additional additional additional addi addi- protection for prep football players were under consideration Friday as the rules committee of the National Federation of High School A. A Athletic l tic Associations s met lct for for its annual two two day day session It was likel likely said Henry V. V Porter Por- Por ter cr of Chicago secretary of the committee committee com corn that the intermission time between periods would be length length- ened The tr traditional one-minute one rest between the first and second and third and fourth sessions was expected to be increased to two or three minutes and the 12 minutes between halves boosted to 15 Porter said statistics indicate that most of the serious injuries on prep gridirons occur near the start of the he second half Feeling that lack of proper warming up may be partly responsible coaches in ill answers to questionnaires have suggested an three minutes between halves devoted to limbering exercises I The rule prohibiting roughing or tackling a ball carrier after he has gone out of bounds was due for strengthening Porter said officials ls In the 14 states which have adopted the national federation code would be told to enforce strictly the anti- anti roughing rule While Whilo no drastic changes in the rules were planned questionnaire responses indicated that the forward forward forward for for- ward passing regulations needed clarification National federation rules permit passing from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage and some difficulty with ith tosses from be beyond beyond be- be yond ond the line has been encountered |