Show YOST TALKS ABOUT fOOTBAll 1 1 lurrY Up of Michigan Sug Suggests Sll Changes in Ill the Play Playing Playing ing Code AIM FOR MORE MODE CLEARNESS Greatest Coach of time the Ba Day Shows How Rules ules Are Arc Indefinite In Their Meaning In a communication to the Chicago 1 F II H Yost of Michl Michi Michigan Loun gan the lie great football leader several In the rules which 1 ii his Would make the coda codo explicit easier to Interpret The hurry hurl up Ul conch has often boon asked to decide disputed In games game 1011 hI he hits found the tho 1 rules ules ann In several Instances During Durin the year much slon sian has hils arisen regarding the mho or of scone lul rules II says Yost When thin play pin Is near a slob o Ilse IIno ally ot of players IInO tl II out ot of bounds should be stated positively yes ell or no ns this Is very ot of otten often ten a ground for tor excuse Rule Hule S 8 says pays A goal oal Is III lII de I by kicking the thc hall bull It In any n except Ity by n a punt fro i the o of pity uv over r the cross crossbar liar ot of the opponents goal Now this should rend 1 A goal Is mica e elIy eby lIy by IL a drop kick or n place pineo kick front the field nelt of Ilia play the tho past the of two were sere left I ft to inn 1110 for tur decision based upon the following In Ai the tho center hind passed the hall to Ito tho quarter hack buck who standing held the ball In hIs hand nail the full buck kicked It over the tho crossbar ot of thin goal lime time the hail hind had been blen fumbled by one side on their tO town a line when one ana of the tho op came through nail I It Il nl It lay IllY on line tho ground and It noel went the mho the lie rule rull nR as It now Is you OU could rould not to do otherwise thorn allow n a god oal Yet under unter rule 2 no such methods of are 1110 described Under rule 10 section H much mach Ills has hns arisen ns as to how n IL player er must be punished for running Into or OI Interfering with the kicker lifter after he kicked The rules committee request that the punish this offense se pc seVerely Verely hut but do not state stale ho how Wh not lIot state tint the side reo re so O many yards or It If In the tho Ion of the the offense Is II very CI severe However it a could he be under the rule rulo for tor roughness Ruin Hulo 21 section A nH as the loss ut of 20 yards has been the tho subject ct or of much dispute most teams that It If the they Were wem put back 20 yards for molding on min first down alit If they then but the tho ball In play piny by II snapping the ball to the tho quarter back and he touched touchet It ft douse dOII they thel would have havo u a first town down as they had lo lost t 20 yards In III this way they avoid the lie rule whIch said when they Were put back bacle nailer the penalty the point to be gained un tin d rite rule should hould rend read The loss ot of 20 yards ot of This would bo be none nono too severe for hold III Hule 22 section A In regard to touching the ball In troll fromn out or of bounds and then kicking It is III indefinite Must the touching It In ho bo Inside of the line when ho ha kicks nod It so how now far tur lIIa many he come clime In iii before kicking Rule Hula 2 26 section A sn says s the emits must remain behind the goal hue IIno until lie tho ball III placed on the thc ground Now Nov III case ot of 1 n ot of this ado rulo It should state the they must bo be put back live yards In III their own awn otherwise there cum call be no penalty for tor the tho viola lion Under the tho rule for tor before the lie ball touches thin the ground on n free kick IlIck I think this Is truo run anyhow but Holy sn say you OU cannot put the then II back In their own goal Rule Hule U H section n D should limit lima In sonic some ay the tho number ot of timeR lines thin tho side a 11 tree free kick lIol cnn mu have U n short lick which does not go ten yards be betor before tor fore being touched h by nn an opponent Un Under er rude Iulo 28 section n D the tho penally for tor throwinG or batting a ball toward the tho opponents goal as It Is tit lit present Is a shifting penalty and lit at tines times seems very unfair It If the rule rend read Time fhe point to he be gabled remains unchanged the penalty Would always he be n just one ome Instead ot of rule rulo IS 18 sections n B C D Dand and JJ I why not substitute a general rule which will say that nt at least six must bo be on lie tho IIno of nt at mill times but It if seven lIoen players tune lire on thin tho IIno Ihie ot of between the 2 25 lines hues then the tho player receiving thin tho ball from the tho center or snapper back may ma cary It the tho theline line IIno of provided In so Icing doing he crosses such Ruch Ilse IIno outside tho he second man troll front the tho center on said line hue This rule 1110 would It ens easy for of to know knot positively when any vio occurred Flue way woy It Is now It itis is IH almost to do so BO It If this rule rulo were adopted it I Would make It Oil op to lain either style of play be between tween thin the lines The past pnAt year I believe has elet that the ganin hind not an any store moro open work between the tho lines than under the mild fact J 1 think the ho opposite ims hns been heen rue It has forced n Ilse IIno attack there thelo urn 1110 not enough men In Inthe inthe the to In circle it 11 good end successfully The would I lie tho style stylo of glide gumo tu to be op 01 I |