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Show 1 1 OPPOSITION TO HAUGHTON'S PLAN I : ------- - - - i The suggestion recently advanced by Percy D. Haughton, former Harvard I lootbull coach, that a forward pass blocked behind the line of scrimmage be fa t) S r v -" ' 1' ' subject to recovery by the defending team, has not been met with favor by many coaches. William II. (Big Bill) Edwards, former Princeton captain, said: "If they keep on changing the rules, they will kill the game." "Chick" Mehnn. Syracuse coach, declared that the suggestion, if adopted, adopt-ed, would tend to make the game less open because pas.-vs would be more dangerous and the light college elevens elev-ens would be handicapped. "I'.uck" O'Xeil, Columbia coach, said such a grounded pass would cause a lively serau.ole in which players would be more liable to injury. Bob Folwell, head coach of the navy, said he had not given the idea much thought, but he believed it was worth while considering. "Instead of having an incompleted forward pass revert to the team which started the play, make a forward pass blocked behind the throwers' line of scrimmage subject to recovery by opponents op-ponents under the same conditions as a blocked kick," is Haughton's idea for improving the game. "If you allow the blocked forward pass to be recovered behind the line of scrimmage, as is a blocked kick, you force the offense to protect the thrower just as it must protect the kicker," said Haughton. "Instead of having five men eligible to receive a pass1, and in dangerous position, you will have only three, possibly two. "Why restrict the forward pass? It is not football, and gradually the game will stray further away from the fundamental aspects and become a combination of basketball and baseball." |