OCR Text |
Show CHANGES ARE MANY BUT flOTRADICAL Revision of 1911 Football Rales Shows the Changes . Which N?ed Stady. KEW HAVEN, Oona, Sept. S3. root ball rulaa for 1011, eodlflad ' WaJtar Camp of Tala, Out WUUama of tka XTBiraraity of FannaylTiata aad B. X. HfU ef partmoatk, ara out Thar U tonch of that football faollaf in tka waathai, and th ralaa 4 aOar i matter conulnad 'In tha 1911 galda naka good raadtnf. Tha changea la tka ralaa ara aUfkt, aad Bar ba da-acribed da-acribed aa follova: The aew rulca abow many ekangea whjrk mufit be carefully atudied by officiala, coaches, eaptaiaa aad playen, aa I bey affect botk officiate aod playera. Oie ia tbe leaxentaf of the intermix Job betweea the firet aud aeeond and tbe third aid fourth perieda. Under the near ruling tha time ia shortened ao that praeticallr there ia intt about time to transfer the hall, if it ia in one end of the fiel.l, from ita laet position to the place where it is to he put ia play at the becinaint of the next period. Thia shorteoinf pf the tine of rest, if carried out strictly h" tka of-fleiala, of-fleiala, will mean that the playera do not set chilled, aad have a ehaact to continue la their stride. A change of greater moment ia tbej play itself ia ane ruliac en the forward for-ward puss. Kormerlr in the cane of an uncompleted forward pass the peti-(Continued peti-(Continued on page ft.) . CHANGES ARE MANY BUT NOT RADICAL - (Contimifd from ag 7.) altT was aiaaaured from ta apot fraia which tha paaa waa nada. That ntual-iy ntual-iy meant a apot a least ail or aT Tarda back of tha lin of aerimmaa. The- new nrla aava that tho diataoe hall ba mcaatiTcd from to apot of the'prerrdiajr down inatcad of tba apot from which tha ball waa paaaod. It la av to i, than, that tha penalty n leaacaed bv about aavaa or OJght rarda, which ia by ao meana aa unimportant un-important fact to boar in mind whea eonaidorins; tha adviaability of at-tempting at-tempting aueh a paaa. There ia aothina; ia this that could in aar war revolutionize the game thie fall, but that there will be marked changra in the atvla of piav la rea-aonablT rea-aonablT certain. Tha poeaibilitiee of the rala are ao far from exhausted that it ia poaaible to build up a atyle of play different in ita fundamental idea from anything that bee beea aeen on the gridiron ao far. Moat of tba abler coaches hope to take up the game where tuev left off laat year and venture into new flelds in the matter of attack. One epeets to eee now aad then radical rad-ical changes in the (reneralabip a atyle of attack that wilV take more ehaaree thaa ia the paat, and that will depend for auceeae oa perfect Individual Indi-vidual interference end clean handling of the ball. It baa been aaid that under un-der The m rules v-io--ao a. un. poaaible to gain much (round wjtb tha ball ia band, but what more natural thaa that coaehea who have made thia statement in public and to one another ehould immediately turn .their atten- . a mtv matter! Ham of tllS beat coaches, east and west, are con-rineed con-rineed that the ball can be earrled to advantage if only to open the way for a drop kicker, and there will probably be running: plave this year in sections of the field hitherto barred under the old system of generalship. It will be a year of numerous shift plava, unless all sine fail, and the possible pos-sible combinations to be worked m connection with shift are far from exhausted. ex-hausted. Several eastern teams had hifts last year that were aeyer used, because there was not time In which to perfect them, but theywill be forth-cominir forth-cominir this aeasoa, beyond a doubt. With the treat progress made m individual indi-vidual play under the aew rules, there will be plenty of opportunity for strategy of an advanced order, and it waa because the rules committee was convinced of this that it did net make any attempt to change the nileg radically. rad-ically. . The real football season begins on September S3. Among the leading elevens which will plav on that day are the Carlisle Indians. Virginia and La-favette. La-favette. The Indians plav more gsme than anybody else. On the Wednesdsv following Cornell snd Dartmouth will start in. nnd on' Saturday. September 30, the campaign of beetles will get under way for Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Pennevlvania. That will ' mean that the season is on ia earnest. Thia Tsar 'a schedule contains more games tVian ever before, thst ia on the whole, but not ns supplied to 'several of the bigger teams. Vale's- first opponent op-ponent will be Holy Cross, and a week later the latter tackles Harvard, thus affording an early opportunity to compass com-pass Yale aad Harvard scores against a common opponent. |