Show FOOTBALL RULE RUll RUllIS IS ADOPTED ADorno 8 BY COMMITTEE Backward Pass Rule Is Clarified by the Officials EW Sept 20 The AP-The r football rules today followed followed fol- fol lowed the le lead d of the Western Vestern conference con con- ference In a change In regulations regulations regu- regu lations to prevent a nuke fluke touchdown touchdown touch touch- down on a backward pass Dy By a telegraph vote the rues rues commIttee accepted the ruling all all- ready among Western Vestern con con- that In case a backward backward back back- ward pass Is touched wIthout a player gaining control ot of It and the ball thep strIkes t the e ground or goes out of bounds bounds' In advance of the sp spot t at which It was touched It shall belong to the team which made the pass at the spot at which It It vas first so touched This provision provision pro pro- vision shall apply whether the ball strikes the ground in the field of or behInd the defensive goal Poe line This change to be Incorporated incorporated rated In the rules as a note under I b and c section I 1 rule VII reverses reverses re- re verses th the tentative ruling made at atthe atthe the Eastern Interpretation meeting September 10 that when team A nearing the goal line makes a backward back back- ward pass which strIkes a player and the ball bounds forward across the line and anft strikes the ground In Inthe inthe the end zone It Is a touchdown The change was made to possibility ot of a fluke touchdown and to make for uniformity In the code throughout the country WIllIam William WIl Wil- lIam S. S Langford secretary on the rules commIttee explained |