Show Leading Rule Breakers An argument came up recently as asto asto asto to what sport game or competition has more rule infractions infractions baseball baseball football boxing golf goU tennis racing hockey basketball or what In our opinion the two worst offenders are football college and pro and golf Basketball and hockey are not so far behind judging from the penal- penal Jes les inflicted but they are not quite up to tc the two we have named up Hurry Yost told me once that he doubted there was ever a single football play without a foul th that it might have been called This sounds reasonable In football we wc have 22 young active athletes all under tension body to body The four officials are usually high grade doing their best But four men cant can't watch 22 men scattered all over the field Holding is the main offense There is illegal use of hands and arms There is off off- side There Is starting too quickly There are any number of offenses that a player can commit often with no intent of ot breaking any rule In rule-breaking rule holding especially espe espe- daIly the pros arc are subtler than the collegians They know more They know how to grab an opponent and let go In the fraction of a second I get this Ibis front from ex collegians who have Just turned pro We cant can't match the pros In holding all of I Ithem them say say They are much faster and smarter Yet if officials begin calling too many penalties they ruin the game They are accused of trying to hog the spotlight So most of them try to call only the penalties that count They'll overlook an offside or a holding penalty that had no effect on the play This sounds reasonable reasonable reasonable reason reason- able enough unless the sound of the whistle dominated the play In the matter of rule breaking football leads them alL It is the type of competition that leads to rule breaking a big part of It unintentional unintentional through that leads to holding offside or start start- Lag big ahead of the ball also illegal use of hands |