Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-09-27 | Page 7 | Make Study of forward Pass Rule

is si: OFFfiaiZD PfiSSilULE Football Men K:zt ar.3 Come to Un2er:tar.iir.i on Eale Char.-':$. NSW TOSK, Sept. 27. Football ia ready to march on for tba aeason of 1011. More then a hundred pro:n.acn football man from all parte of ths country attended a meeting at the Hotel Manhattan, New York, Saturday Sight fnl had the rule Interpreted for tbeni. Inconsistencies In t!-e rulea were smoothed ever and, ambii-Moiie rtttcrunti cleared up for ths b--;;; ..l of the football men. The torward p- a waa placed en a will dtllnod bieia. The rulsa fownHni this play have cans-4 football men much worry aa to tii e.r interpretation. With the- ciesrtns up Of the rule altuatlcn the ofnclaia no are ready to jovtrn conto:a. Two aertinns of the ferwurd ran ru'a dealing with the l!l unk-i'j tne f 'round seemed to ennflict, eo t tie gnl-ron gnl-ron arbitrators ante wlnl nma I of section 5 of rule 1.) hv ati-l:i- trfe word, "before it (tlte tun; tiis tonrhed the groun'l." This section now ron's: 'MVhen t' ball has been )r?nllv tiann'-d (nrwird and has hea Jry.nly toti'Midl. I-r i etriking tha grmin.t, hv snv p nvcr if the si'le not miKii-.g the r-, a-'v plsver of either sine kn the r t to tempt to secure pofi(iii ot t-e lml before it has tomd-M tne B-roumi." Ths sertion with wnu-h tne ave ruling in its oriental form c":: n-i is ss follows: "If the bail, -r lining lin-ing been legally vaierd fjrTtri, -t the ground wilhin the ff- I of ,v either before or after Havre I i touclied by a plsver of cither a.-le, i ;e pats e la 1 1 not be constuereii a "ni-pleted." "ni-pleted." fteetion B of the rulinea tinker fi forwsrd pass alao was nuti'tril a the wortls "until it (the I.mi.i hns tourhed the grimnd." Now the .i ' reads: " Anv plaver of the inir tnat i not make the forward r hns f I right to touch end to attempt to 'u' foeioo of the trail until It ti-i oucbed the ground." In order to prevent ntiv scramble ti the side lines in a forward r -i g j out of bounds, it. wan dw.lt . I ir.t t opponents are entitled to i n t t tha ball at the point at wTu.-h it j,"ifs out of bounds, provide. I the had u .fg . out before it tnm-hee the ground. in this rnle, to free .the rarne of the scramble, the words "before it his been touched hv a plaver of either side" were stricken out. Opponents also will get the ball at the spot of the preceding down in the event of the ball being illegally tourhed or recovered imtead of at the spot oit which the foul occurred. It wa am decided that a forward na"a f"t"t over the goal line In Jhe air or Mr, a goal post or an npriirht was to be counted as a tourhlnk. An omitted rule: "If a foul is de-flared de-flared for whioh the pensltr would car. tr the ball across tha goal line, the ball shall ba put in plav on the one rarcl line,", was added to- the rules. Otner minor chsngee in wording were mado in the rules. The meeting was presided over hv Walter I STtn.