Show my opinion Rugby or Football Dear What has happened to my beloved game of rugby football in its years in The game I saw last was only the the lumbering ghost perhaps of its prototype as still played in Though I be the only mourner on the please allow me half a not merely to sing my but to my My pity goes to the If one of the main ideas of a play is to mislead the opposing side as to the position and carrier of the how can the who are further away and relatively be expected to follow the Nine out of ten times they have to be content with the result of the and the only excitement comes from the knowledge of the number of yards gained or American football is much slower than I I put this down to two the game comes to a full stop so often because of a rule the reason for whose existence I cannot has also to start again from a full Why cannot the backs at least be in motion when the play the fear of losing the ball to the opposing side in my crippled the The tendency is to get the ball and stick to which is always much less fun than open passing Look how the spectators cheer when a pass is It ought to be all like not necessarily long forward but passes in any direction to a player in a better These shorter passes quicken the play Jt's quicker to pass than to make the movements interesting to and succeed more Why does everybody cling hold of the ball ike grim frightened to pass If they know how to pass and why don't they do Other suggestions spring to my but they are small and perhaps They could only go to dilute my previous for I want to make my plea on the wide plane of more continuous and open Ralph N. Editor's Students are requested to write to The Chronicle and express their opinions on which are vital to the University of Utah and its student body SUCk letterS wUl be polished With the full t Letters signed with initials or a pseudonym will not be |