Show ST Sf WOUlD QUID HOLE HOU HOUTO TO FORWARD FOR PASS t There Danger of Committee tee Abolishing This Play ht there will be few changes ill in th ball r rules for for 1914 is alm almost a ity Thc gridiron code codo gave utmost during the season of ioia 1913 in general the fans players and cites ches are ae unanimous in their approval the tho The chief criticism regis regia ed ad a the tho of football red in the tho season just passed was eted against th tb la k of inventive inventive- by br and not against the 03 under which the game gamo was played if a a. particular team did di not put up game its followers it was the fault of the rules bu but the tho ret ret re- re t bf inferior co coaChing ching as s a general ion of i in tho mi middle west for the theme me lao played 1 there proved pro superior to toc c style show howd in in the tho east There Theres is s a spirit in this section at was not pre prevalent in the cast a to be tive Hyc The Tho lash and fight figh of the e wc west west- tn t- t n 0 gri gridiron br heroes heroes' cs' cs completely over over- thc lo s o of the ho I stern stert athletes Football men who have bao tu lcd the thC in both ea east t and west can caD sec n needful jil in the way of f a alange iane lange in thA rules The critics a aver r rInt Int if there is to bo be any lent the game gamo it will on the tho pr pro pro- e ss of the coaches Western cities do o lOt agree with ith ill Iii the thc east that r C thE forward would help hep the This waR reached beuse be be- use in practically all the big battles hl Cd on eastern eastern fields the he a ass aJ J Jm m vas s not only oth- otha a failure W ut a boomerang as vell Statistics Statistics' how low that less than 10 per cent ot of th the I tt to gain by b- the air line lino were in such contests ns as the ao Yale a ia hi anti and d n anes Not ot only lid the thc forward pass passail nil ail to gain in proportion hut but nearly he time timo it t went wrong for or the o. o t. t sile it wa intercepted and r rc- rc d for long gams a Th fOT forward ar pass pas j is supposed to b bm be 1 tn m ff play la hut from tIC the time if fits its innovation it it has lo lot t much more round than jt ever gained strangely nou l it is not defended for br its value ts IS in olf ff pIn 0 o much as it is isor isor or breaking up an opposing defense ut football p eu rire arc beginning to see seo I he hc fallacy of tIllS this d defense oJ of t the play I for if a part of a t offense is I for the thc purpose or of breaking ep and ancI wc weakening an tic tic- I de-I fene the tho time has haM conic come for rule rulo makers mak- mak ers o to find some other methods of equalizing attack defense of mc The estimate of the value alue of forward for pass lasS do doc tl not hold in the thc west Football experts are aro di- di id in n their opinions as to whether the success of the play in the middle west was due to their scientific level level- of it or a weakness in iii tl tb construction con con- of a defense for it Th The claim i is made madO in the tho cast t that a moderately tely defense for this pIa play can top stop it tenths nine of the tho time If this be betru tru t it follows ws tb that t the he west in it its efforts rf t to develop scoring plays by the for forward pass neglected J. J proper dc- dc f r ILIn it IL In a or of the mer merits its of f the played in the west anti and cast this conclusion is inevitable inevitable- that the west o the tho off of of- f J game while tho east paid aid on- on too much attention to to the thc do- do Unless football coaches arc are to adjust st st. themselves es to c i al of f the tho rules it is' is f fairly fair fair- irly ir- ir ly certaIn that next year Will see a even development do nt of both offense anti and in the west as w U as in inthe inthe the cast Western nien have baye already talt 1 the tive in In one r refOrm in which the tha ea eat t is lagging fa faz behind At a recent meeting or of the Western Vestern a it it- was as' as voted for the tho first two games of the I on the should be num- num bored and nOlI that if tie the exp experiment proved n a success the rule should 1 he 0 maln obligatory tor for th the rest of the f c nf Jb The rule mak makers rs wilt wiil get to together ether for tho eighth of the N association in in Nc e on December 30 10 The Them m v dl he held at the tho Astor h lid tel t. t eg from every ou one of We ie athletic districts will be e on onto p nl to make their annual reports of the eon eon- t nf |