Show sports and athletics guach W areld who will be at th head of harvard football this year Is probably the highest salaried football coach in the country reid last year received 3 irom the harvard athletic asso claton tor his two months coaching and then it was admit ted he received 1 from other sa that his salary was 5 a year almost as much as president buot himself received the only oth er coach who ever received this ankouny was foster sanford the old player when he was coach at columbia but columbia s authorities to sanction this enormous sal ari after a year or two and sanford hl to go now with the exception ot reid the highest salary usually 11 to a football coach is 3 this is the amount that coach williams of minnesota and coach stagg of chica go are thought to receive but the utter men earn their salary more certainly than does yost for they coach other teams besides football their whole time virtually being given to coaching from one years end to the other the university of michigan will get one of the best schoolboy athletes in the east this tall in N yost a brother of the famous football coach hurry up yost the younger yost finished his course at mercersburg Mercers burg academy and selected the ann arbor college as his training school for the next four years yost had few equals among the eastern schoolboys as a shot putter and hammer thrower he was also a football player with few equals his position was on the line though he frequently played in the back field at fullback in the big in door meets in chicago on last wash ington s birthday yost first blos omed out as a weight thrower he won the shot put with a distance of over 43 feet he put the weight over this dis tance frequently throughout the sea son and has taken prizes in all the big meets is six feet in height and weighs about pounds for all that he is a big man he Is active and a fast runner he is one of the best ground gainers and hurdlers in the school ranks within a few weeks the heroes of the baseball world will have to give way to a new band of warriors that of the college toot ball players sep t e m b e r always marks the exit of the one and the entry of the other one does not need to indulge in prophecy to de dare with truth that no football season in inter collegiate history was ever the center of so much inter est will be that of 1906 the prin cipal reason tor this assertion Is the new football code prepared by the football rules committee composed of members of the athletic boards of the leading eastern and western colleges which has just been completed and which Is certain to almost revolution ize the bame there are some critics who declare that the new code will ruin the sport but the season itself must prove or disprove this the aim of the committee has been to do away with dangerous play and it has ruled so that mass play Is a thing ol 01 the past the first and hard est blow dealt to the mass formation was tt e adoption of the ten yard rule As it now stands the offense will be compelled to gain ten yards in three downs or in other words will be forced to advance the ball twice as jar as formerly in the same number fit downs it readily may be seen that mass play will not do this at least it the two teams are of anything like equal strength and with weight not counting the only resort Is open play in which science and skill will be a factor new trick plays will be tried with countless new formations in addition the rule regarding hurdling was made more binding no feet first hurdling will be allowed and as few hurdlers can go over the line in any other position without losing their feet a large per cent of the hurdling will be eliminated and then again a new ruling regarding tackling was made when the runner touches the ground with any portion of hia body other than his hands or feet he Is down and the ball Is out of play this rule is aimed at dragging and crawling should eliminate piling on tactics tackling high is again al and will aid both the runner and the defense men for the former will not be compelled to guard their legs so closely and may thus reach greater speed while the latter evading the arm of the runner are surer of a clear tackle one rule was adopted affecting the positions of the linesmen only the center and the guards may interlock their legs and by this provision also the committee worked against the mass formation for the defense Is en abbed to see more clearly what is tak ing place behind the offense line |