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Show GRID TEAMS USE MASS PLAY New Style of Attack Has Been Legalized Legal-ized by Rules Committee Tackling From Behind Prohibited. The mass play devised by George Foster Sanf ord, the Eutgers college coach, may be adopted by elevens of other colleges as a result of the announcement an-nouncement that the new style of attack at-tack has been legalized by the football rules committee. The play consists of the alignment of three of the four backs immediately behind three adjoining ad-joining players on the forward -line. It was used effectively by the Rutgers eleven and proved formidable when a little ground was needed to retain the ball or when the team was near the enemy's goal, but in one instance last season it was declared illegal. Mr. Sanford submitted the question of its legality to the rules committee and obtained a decision that the play was legitimate provided no part of the bodies of the three players forming the secondary attacking line was within one yard of the line of scrimmage. A suggestion by Mr. Sanford that a rule should be adopted prohibiting the cutting down of a player from behind was approved by the committee informally. in-formally. He described it as "the most dastardly play in football, a hamstringing, ham-stringing, knee-breaking, face-smashing play that allows a man on one side to injure a member of an opposing eleven." |