| Show 1 ITHE THE WORLD WOiD OF SPORT ft COACH DEGRIES NEW GAME fiAME 1 Northwestern Football Teacher Last Year Spends Day in Town ENGLISH RUGBY NOT LIKED Wally all Hopes Sport Will WiIl Not Break alc Into Colleges Colles Preferring American Ameri l can Hc flame ally Wally M McCornack an old Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth football player and coach spent a few hours In town y yesterday on his way from the coast He coached the Northwestern team last year but has now retired from Crom athletics and devotes all his time to the thi practice of law Mr McCornack k Is an nn earnest o nd j cate of the game ame as us it is played In I America and has little sympathy for forthe the English Rugby game which the I tw two big universities of California have j 1 adopted A few days lays a ago o he lie visited the athletic field held at Berkeley and Watched atc the men at ut practice He lie was recognized a and 1111 dragged out for Cor a speech The temptation to speak his his his' mind was too to great and he told the asS assembled assembled as as- S students In a three-minute three talk that he rt regretted their departure from f L the American style of or football that i is f he thought It was better now when c- c hi football is under fire so to speak to lo toi toS S i spend ener energy in Improving the American Amen Ameri can game gamt rather than forsaking It and adopting the l English Rugby st style le The Tue TueS S students were werl astonished at tile tHe plainness plain plain- ness noss of or his hla words but gave ga a a. unanimous n yelp elp of or approval IS E. E Tru True The Th high schools In California said 5 Mr McCornack yesterday will not follow rollow fol rol- foi- foi low he lead llad of their universities InS in S taking up tip the l u lIsh Rugby game I L talked d with a number of the tue conches coached f 5 and almost without exception they ar are areS are'S S 'S determined to stick to the American America game une This will s iii leave Stanford an and S. S Berkeley Berkele pra practically ally alone In their advocacy ad a.d. S of the foreign The UThe new mw football rules adopted this year will vIll without doubt Improve the game In my opinion They will also abo do away to a large Jarge extent with fatalities fatali fatali- ties but not with Injuries Injuries will be te e as numerous as the they ever have been If not noten even en more numerous The They t. t will result largely from Crom tho the scramble for Cor the ball bail after It Js Is kicked One of the new ne' rules as you re remember re- re c- c member provides prO that a kicked ball bull Is Isan an body's bull bail as soon as us It Jt touches 2 the ground There Is going oln to be a n chance In this for some Bome mighty pretty work vork for or tile the ends The Tue quarterback tho Iho ball bail to tu the tile side and C lightly forward orward the tilt lid end scoop sc op Jt it up UI 11 and anil dash awn away with a n clear lieu Itch for the tho goal I 1 look to see c some line ne plays of or thin th kind CollIe Will He lie More Mor Open It now hOw rule Is 18 that lint which per- per forward pas pass Still another requires that the tho ball ban must t be advanced advanced ad ad- vancell ten tn yards In lit three downs In InS Instead Instead In- In S stead of oC five Uve yards Iuds as under the tile old rules The whole t tendency Is to lo make u a more op n game with more kicking and running with the tho boll ball and fewer fewel mass plays Mere weight will not be beat beat beat at so great a premium as It has been I 5 04 In the past host The Thc football situation In the middle 1 west vest Is very Interesting this year car The rhe Michigan team will not hold the predominant predominant prett pre pre- tt dominant that It has held for forr forc r c SOniC some years past Many of Yosts Yost's best beal men are out and the team will have ha haveS S to Q be bu made up UI largely from froni recruits I The Tile result Is to place three or four of the tile leading colleges on about an equal footing fooling and the lIu championship will bo be anybody's until It Is won von Mr McCornack left on an afternoon afternoonS S train for his home in Iii Chicago l' l |
