Show Cf CAMPS SPEECH O ON COLLEGE GAME Great Football Authority Goes After Certain Would Be Bo Reformers HE SUGGESTS GOOD RULES Tolls How lul I Sport i tort Could He lie le t I lin Ji 1 in In II I a Sit hig u if I li mill millIn 1111 U In I I Other Oilier Wu At til Yule lula dinner In New Nel York attended by b 80 Walter Camp the tho noted authority on 01 u it I speech on and titi tl reform movement which prove roo hl hh In II to all al Interested In the thu grot college game same Mr II CampH Call speech follows fallows In II full fullI tul I think you tu have havo heard leard football dl U cU ed us u ably ubI im any body bely ot men m n could discuss It I dont think there thee la is I very v r much left fur tur u to I nun who la is said fId to be I tim the practical man ln to tall talk upon now The rho prime ganic has haa ha rather reached the tho point th the rub ll r when wh n chased by b a dog dOl when lie lin hI came eam near neul a t d Now Vow you YOI kouw u a 1 rabbit ciu t climb a It I tree but wu was WIK clou Clo e at hand and the th rabbit hail had hat to I climb the Iho tree Iret rt Is hI GoIng tu to ho bo mud lud over but hut whether It U will wili wil take lake on tn new principle such lUch an 15 climb I Ing log tiers nobody can CJ II tell tel The ilie lh old rules rule committee lute hUll coma come In for tor considerable censure e I 1 was wan si a i member of the old ola rules ruled Two Tao pin once ozice lest leat their mother One Ono of ot the neigh born bor Imo caine In und and Lean to with thrill then und std You Yuu must ml a ayour your mother mol her very vcr much mu h The rho elder eider of or thu th Ih td two gIrls auld I if lee eft the lI ut to cat eat nil all the th burnt cookies cookie That Is the position of ot tho the old rules committee 1 think th the new hOW rules committee will aleo alBo find there thera era some burnt rookies cOkis to cut cat lit yet Th Tue rules committee always have havo a II hard time lime Nobody can make m It rules of or any wiy sort Bon with without without Ith out heln heing subjected to 10 criticism oven In Ina Inn ina a n sport like golf The rhe Introduction to Kni En ll n golf snIt rules this your year written by b Mr Ir Low Jow says BOI that there are am always when the tho frt se of or rules rule cornea comes out a number of or Home II saying that tho the rules are aro positively ridiculous In their wording and that any set ct of half hair a II doton doron gentlemen lI could make mako up UI a better code codo Now Mow ow if It that In lit true truo of at golf col I am em sure sur J It must mUt bo be true truo of ot a more mona Intricate tort aport like football OPENING TilE THE II The Th practical part pirt of ot the tho rules rule It U acorns eom to me coo m to not only the tM player 1 laor line and the tIle Jalson who goe goes O t tI to see sea a II game two or ni t time a n year hut hill to ono one who li is Interested In III the sport snort In any degree today tOda It Il Is II i to make mako niRH nays that snail to what whal in Is ii caLled cul d tunes masa play unless a I poles tulea committee Is made mi 11 of men inca win who lire aru to w buld boki In la the that t lIt they can i eel t against the allied wisdom I dOm and judgment of or all oil the tho coaches In th the country countr ma Lao only way WilY ta tf C the game gamo Is to lo It st a II certain stand standard standard I ard of ot gain gala to b be mad mado In III the tho distance BO so that tho coaches must make that gal galor or let the ball bo be kicked d That CUal will net Het tie lo the th 1 question at once It U In is I bio jib to make ten In thim e downs down without muss play anti and as tie long ax as that distance Is h absolutely required the coaches must Und find fin some ome now new way out They must mUll make long runs nine or else they must bust liar hat their men kick the ball bali It lit is I IIo Io that list that move inure might require home omo amendment It Jt may lOa require either a 1 change In the weakening of or the tho defense which I 1 doubt or It limy my require lu in or tier der to make scoring possible a II reversion to the th old rule rull that when the ball boll reaches the tho ard lino IIno a II requirement ol ot i 6 yards yard and of ot the line a require requirement mont ment of at 10 yards arde may answer tho tue pur purpose peer pose A B TO 10 ACCIDENTS At 8 z to the thi questIon of ut that thatis la is ono one which lute has not IIO been tech dwelt upon Yen very strongly but Lut Is 18 to 10 my toy m mind quite Im tm Important I think that the thi elimination of at tind making the requirement r that loot a Il ninn lII ln must roust tackle above the tho knees wll wIll go 1 11 tar far towards stopping some seine of ot the Injuries The 1110 game is I al always ny as liB hal hai ha been said hero helo tonight a II game IllIne of ot pr per personal Honal contact It must be rough rou h and some Injuries will eventuate It ia U to expect anything else cler and any M an bet et of or rule maker who iIi otTer offer n a code coda CO I of ot rules ruled and aud mate stair that those rules ruleR will eliminate all nil accidents accident so 80 that the tue nervous mother ut at homo home will feel reel perfectly confident that her boy hoy will not lIot gut get n a spraIned ankle will wilt Und hInd themselves snowed under In lu the lint Hist two of ot tho tue season reason Nm ItULE rou rOlt A DOWN DOW There Thoro me ac two to or three other points arid aridI I have havo hll been asked to 10 speak peak on au the tile practical lc Hide aide KO so I 1 am am going directly at It II ItI III itI I think that n R rule ruie should bo lie made that when any part of or a n mans person erson tho the run runS runner her ner with tho hall hail except hl hia feet touches tho the ground the tho ball bail should houM bo be declared dead Wo We have hae plenty of or mon men at all III uni plucky men who when they ate are down on Oil tile tue ground with the hall hail with ono one or two lo men on top toll of thoRn them If Ii I they thoy liMo havo six Ix Inches to make that L down will Splat light for tor It und they will crawl along the ground for It The Tao op opponent who HII ever the tho mIl linde Ind it t impossible for to I him to reach down anti and top atop the man short of ot the six 1 ix Inches gained anil no so o drops on nn him The IM man It ho docs does it II he ho Is plucky pluck he ho Is II fighting for hi his university he las wants wantA to malta male thit additional gain anti and the tho oilier Is In a to position where ho mUst muni lop It My 01 Idea of or suggesting the rules that when any part of ot his hi person Is on onlie the th lie ground except hit his feet teet the tho ball be declared dead Is Ie to eliminate that thal chance of or brutality If Jf a man inait cannot have tho the distance whether ho I crawls or it Il or not lot nobody nil ill 11 touch touch I him That ite demonstrated cI a number i of ot years earH ago iou oll will r thoro was WS criticism about corning on iv a 1 I who had punted the ball bulL He lie lied had a aright arIght right If It lie lin was wua not stopped tu run up oit U Snit and put Iut hU lila hi men on en side ld or to get e the thu ball bail bl I himself h was wan equivalent to 10 a D run Iun of the distance of or the kick AH As A a II result the tho opponents went vent down on tup lup of or him hint to Slot hU hi getting there They did pre pro prent Miu eilt nt that naomi mini going forward and anil as al a mutter matter of fact I would not have a full fullback fullback back on a 1 Vale Y Ii sIo e team tean who did not expect such ouch treatment under tho those thOM rules rule Wt lye V made mode a rule rulo however r to the effect that ho could not put hut ul moon men on Oil side Titers There was m then no longer lunger any lin object In stop atop stopping ping him and for tor tho the last Jast few tew years yearn ears wu wo have not seen ceen that thing done at nil fill M 1 ve havo entirely eliminated that Ihal ele do element el ment flout PENALTY IOn FOIl TIME TIIE TAKEN TAlEN OUT OCT Another rule rulo that seems to be advisable Is III one which works ork In two ways saye It would require that whenever time Is taken out at the of a captain the tho Side eMu would be he penalized for the taking out of ot that time say for tor every ever ever hair halt minute two yards arda rat lA t will vill not nul only enable tho the to play piny pIli a II faster raster game Ime and a n game with less mass mim play anu less liability to t J injury but Jut It will also alia work In ill another way wa V t men man Is often oCten kept In Inthe Inthe Inthe the game when hen ho he Is exhausted lie Ito Is II plucky and laM has been Jeen a good player or anti and h ItO II can call nuke make n a run rUIl Then Than ho will lie down dawn and aM time linac will ho be taken out It Il Is II that man the exhausted man roan who han hll not control over oler his muscles who most mOlt sure lure surely ly h I receives r cel s an Injury Hut JUl If It Il Is U cost COlt coating ing his captain two yards to keep the In Iii Injured InJure Jure man In ira the game garno he Is II going to lo put In m u I rl h man lIe ilc wilt will thus take taka away one of ot the great chances of or Injury In la the tho game gamo AN STINO BIT IUT OF OJ hut I will viii not go any MY further Into Int the details of or the tho rules rule I except to say ellY that In tIm tha cases caU of or brutality and rough flees neM n 11 and accident we all nil of ot us UI u ought to look over ocr the past palt little on all om that sub aub subject subJect The Tho ho Yale Courant In ISM had an on edi edl editorial tonal upon baseball In which It said that tho the craze cruzo for tor that list sport was wu very sari terl sarious ous that It was impossible to ee lee eec what In Interest interest terest men m could havo In iii a II game like that that thai It wall vas simply dimply a to tn a II number number of ot baseball clubs and and that It would not appeal to enlighten enlightened II ed men that the great Increase in acci accident dent d nt insurance policies was wall duo to no other cause anti ana that If It the tho game gamo did not lIot presently cease crime we would be Le without men man Monthly In 1513 relegating baseball to 10 the category and the charac lel of ot boat racing and laorae hono racing wound up with lIh this lila statement Today loday the th KI game mo of or croquet lw is gradually ground anti and promises to bo be the tho true and an only national of or America It H is the tho point of view gentlemen anti and when In those days dae they the regarded r base bao baseball ball an as seriously crippling when the I In the time of or McLaurin declared through the columns column of or lao th Times limes that whole heat bont crews were being swept wept oft o by their th lr terrible exertions at the tM oar and went nent on to 10 try tr to prove by b statistics that tho the boat bOllt races ought ht to bo ho abandoned 1 on account of or the tho strain on men they were erl all nil work workIng workIng Ing lag along the tM Mate earn line lino that opponents of at football ere are today they were exaggerating exaggerating gerating they the were taking laking some nome single specified a case and making a I great dal deal dalof dalof of ot that thai anti and thinking that nil all men who hl worn wore concerned In lit those thoe sports were liable to the same samo Injuries YAWS AL AI The Injuries by b accidents of or the tho Yale team this thin year I take tako this opportunity of or staling this because there have ha been blen reported the thi Injuries at lit other places ell the total Injuries to 0 tim tha Ih team teRm which were taken In lit charge by II tho the surgeon ure H 24 Of or the th e 17 11 were Vero ero sprain bruises of ot the lame Ume bruises all of or them Enabling tho the men man menles lI manless n less les than a n week There Thre were weno IIO six Ix sprain sit eel knees and nil all tho Iho thoe e moon men played later there was RS one OM contused side sl le anti and probably a ft fractured rib but that man played In inthe tho the Harvard game |