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Show WARNING Dr. McCarthy Says Big Colleges Want Brutal Bru-tal Football. Madison, "Wis., Nov, 30. A return to tho old days of brutalized football foot-ball and an unfair advantage on the side of l ho heavier teams In predicted predict-ed bj Dr Charles McCarthy or this cltv, former all-American halfback of Brown university. If the present plans of big colleges and universities go through. Dr. McCarthy believes, that the laBt season has shown the bis: colleges that under the present rules they do not have the advantage given thpm by former rules and he scents a movement to nullify tho regulations now In effect. Dr. .McCarthy points to numerous defeats and ties of largo toamfi east nnd west as proof of the fact that tho present rules tend to equalize playing conditions and con-duco con-duco to fairness. "The big colleges have begun the agitation to cut down thp distance to be gained on three downs," said McCarthy. Mc-Carthy. "I thought this would come. Tbe big colleges have been beaten so repeatedly lately that they wiph to return to old conditions. J called attention at-tention last year to this movement. They dlrl not succeed In minimizing the forward pass by unfair legislation. legisla-tion. 'T warn the colleges that If the plans of the big colleges go through, football will become more dnngerouR. The way to make It more Interesting without being moro dangerous is to take some of tho restrictions away from the forward pass. With the present representation on tho rules committee, the situation is mighty dangerous." Dr. McCarthy declared the reduced list of accidents this year is commentary com-mentary enough In favor of leaving the rules as they arc. |