Show FOOTBALL RULES ARE AHE NOT YET SATISFACTORY NEW V YORK April Apri 18 More More tinkering tinker tinker- in in ing with the tho football rules is necessary bet bero ore it will be possible to save the present forward pass across the line of ot scrimmage and still provide an ado ado- quate and proper secondary defense for forthe forthe forthe the defensive tackles This is the opinion today of Henry M. M Wheaton ex Yale ex-Yale Yale player Just Just- back in in New NewYork NewYork I York after observing tho the workings of ot the new rules in in spring sprin practice at Annapolis where he ho will be bo head coach next year Wheaton said The troubles of ast last year and preceding pre ceding seasons with the forward pass will not disappear until a rule is adopted adopt adopt- ed providing that any forward pass across the tho line of scrimmage which woich travels ravels more than ten yards beyond the he point where the ball ban m is put in play may be caught and hand bandied ed as a fair catch under the same regulations that pertain to a catching of a kick This would allo ahlo defensive halfbacks to play up close to the line preventing line me bucking opening the play and holding holding hold hold- ing ing- ng the forward passes to shorter dis dis- ancos The new tackling rule which forbids for forbids bids diving divins tackles ii is a failure and will result in a big bigger r cripple list than tho the old od regulation Splitting of the halves into two minute fifteen periods has las also resulted unhappily in our spring practice |