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Show ;Sj Football Will Take Its h In Utah In The Dixie District 2 fe0LMA W Football Coach 5CBD,the newstream--to utS". wiH be intro- i?;Div"tah KSh Schools f- W high scho01 has elven-man foot- jlif' " most of the other jtitf) .schools in neigh-Vya,e neigh-Vya,e Paved six- :'ven ref' tWs fal1 wil1 P sPrts program V ' foml h'gh Schools. the regular eleven- I man game. Started by Stephen Epler in a few small high schools in Nebraska during the fall of 1934 it has spread rapidly until at present it is estimated there will be upwards of 2,500 high schools throughout the nation playing the game this fall. This new game of football was created not with the idea of taking the place of the eleven-man game but rather to give more boys, particularly those in the smaller high schools,- a chance to play the game of football. foot-ball. Before the innovation of six-man football, thousands of the smaller high schools throughout the country could not play regu-i regu-i Continued on page ten) Six-man Football (Continued from first page) lar eleven-man football, either because be-cause the enrollment of boys in the school was too small to provide pro-vide adequate material for an eleven-man football squad, or the financial burden on the school was too great. The rules for six-man football are essentially the same as for regular eleven-man football. Some of the more significant changes from the eleven-man game are listed as follows: 1. Six men on a team instead of eleven. 2. The field of play is smaller, being 300 by 120 feet as compared com-pared to 360 by 160 for elven-man elven-man football. 3. Every player on the team is eligible for a forward pass, rather than just backs and ends. 4. One "clear pass" must be made before the ball can be advanced ad-vanced beyond the line of scrimmage. scrim-mage. This means that after the ball has been snapped back from center to a backfield man, this man must make a short pass (in any direction) to one of his team-mates before the ball can be advanced beyond the scrimmage scrim-mage line. - 1 5. Fifteen yards must be made in four downs rather than 10 in four as in regular football. 6. Fumbles can be picked up and advanced by the team not committing the fumble. In regular regu-lar football fumbles can be recovered re-covered but not advanced. 7. The scoring is different. Touchdowns count the same, six points, but if the try for extra point is made by place-kicking or ' drop-kicking through the uprights up-rights it counts two points rather than one as in eleven-man football. foot-ball. Try for point after touchdown touch-down made by line-buck or pass counts one point. Field goals count four points as compared to three in regular eleven-man football. Generally, there is more scoring in six-man football than in regular regu-lar eleven-man football. Scores are said to resemble those of basketball games in that both teams usually score 20 or more points, provided they are any where evenly matched. Also the type of play is somewhat some-what more open due to the fact that a pass must be made behind the line of scrimmage before the ball can be advanced. Forward passes, lateral passes, and wide runs occur more frequently than in eleven-man football, all of which should make the game more interesting to the spectator. |