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Show SWlcseat 0)riving By FRANK K. BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Although the proposal was not adopted this year, the high schools are apt to go ahead with an unlimited substitution program in football at an early date, according accord-ing to Dave Mitchell, secretary of the Utah High School . association, who recently returned to his Lehi home from the national conclave in Chicago. 1 Mitchell is among those who believe such a rule would be a definite safety factor. He puts it this way: "Under the present set-up, coach hesitates to pull a star or key man during the waning moments of tight game because he knows he won't be able to return him to the game. If these stars could be pulled out for a short breathing spell on tho sidelines, side-lines, they'd be more alert, refreshed and therefore less apt to be Injured in those closing plays when the tenseness of the moment mo-ment Inspires both teams to vigorous heights. "This rule would be especially beneficial In tho ease of a player who might be tackled or blocked particularly hard during the latter stages of the game. Coaches and trainers. weald have an opportunity to chock the player's condition more thoroughly on the sidelines, give him little added root and still have tho right to send him back In tho game again if conditions warrant it Obviously, this Is much better arrangement than tho present situation whereby tho rule against returning players to the game In tho same quarter In which they leave the game leads to keeping man us there for 'just one more play' anyway." Mitchell also points out that lot of experimenting i going on about the country . . . Wisconsin high school officials, for example, are under orders to slow basketball down by handling the ball after each score ... on the theory that this procedure gives the kids a few seconds' rest . . . Colleges may have to put on the brakes, too, now that elimination of the center jump and enlarged floors are increasing the game's tempo. Another group of schools . . . about eight in and around Peoria, 111. . . . are experimenting with the forward pass again ... contending that it might be Interesting to open up football ttill a bit more . . . The high schools and the pros already permit per-mit a forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, while the collegians still require the forward passer to be at least five yards behind the line of scrimmage. The Peoria group is testing the feasibility of permitting two passes ... so long as both are behind the line of scrimmage . . . Mitchell also reports that a survey of representatives at the - Chicago conclave showed a definite tendency toward abolishment abolish-ment of spring football practice in favor of paying greater attention atten-tion to baseball and track, f " Beaver have boon put to work In several regions to help I In tho fight for soil conservation, according to W, 8. Long of ; the federal sol conservation bureau. In fact, nearly a hun- t dred beaver were transferred In July and August last sum- mer to Important water sheds In the state so they could build I their dams and otherwise carry on their activities which ' help catch flood water and thereby desilt tho water during tho spring run-off . . . Some of the beaver were transferred from canals and ditches In Duchesne and Carbon counties to the headwaters of the streams In that region and others were moved from the La Salle to the Blue mountains as part f tho general rodent control program. |