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Show 1 CHANGES IN FOOTBALL CODE .INCREASE SCIENCE OF "GAME I m -w- &mk&$m&v m " 32: ""' jiljf Photo by American Presn Association. HARVARD MEN PRACTICING PASSING THE BALL Jm By TOMMY CLARK. jj5 . A LTERATIONS In the 1012 foot- 8g yk ball code aro nuch "hs to BjS J7- L-liannc the pmo only In a V?S ' limited uense, and from a caa- Oik ku' Inyo3tlffation of the main points In 'SHI "'h!ch alterations have boen made It ''Vn7f ' Would Ecem that these changes arc for nstkjy the belter Ccrtulnly they should be 1JJ5W pratlfylng from a spectator's viewpoint. MIhp .. i'st there Is no doubt that this year will Jjlf $oo more of an assortment of tactics Sl' dlnplayod In actual competition than BBlf 'vo- before. I Till;; ha" been brought about by the Jlvmm .. rule u-h.t1! provides for the Increasing BB, of the number of downs In which to OjJJjI R-aln ten yards from three to four MffyiW "Where, In tho past, a team had but Jiij- . three downs to try for alns, the limit I2M1K f was such that careful regard for safety jSa compelled the offense to use only such 55f 8,p!ayr aw' i'oufcl ""bo' "utilised" v.-Uliout iirtilt Jeopa-dlclnc; Hn opportunities to cither XtfTflf advance out of danger or leave the ba'.l l"jM, In the opposing tenm's possession at jjjjf tho farthest possible distance from the IJllB scorltip boundary. VS'lth such an alter- jfjlffe i native faclnp the offense, usually but S one down was utilized before puntlnc yljrif on lta own end of the field or but two j"fjj. downs at tho opposite end past the M middle beforo either punting or placo- W i ment kicking wan attempted. Jill? 'f Tn,s yenr n leam v",lh llle bal1 ncnr ?.Slli ' its own coal line will W able to rush vJZ .f twice before resortlnc to a punL whllo In the middle of the Held tho ball can jSjl ' bo rushed three times. At the same I5 t time a forward pass, heretofore cua- Wl i tomnry only on the second down, will S"5 1 probably bo trlod this year In the ma- r.gl ' jorlty of cases only on the third down. 0J ; As a consequence there will be fewer 'Jfi ; forward passes, fewer punts and a tffM . f;rcat dt-al mort real football of tho 'WU actual rushlnj kind. "Sjg Dopindo on Back Field. ;MJ j Vhether or not this actual rushlnp I will bo of the old ntylc line bucking type, minus the element of mass play or of tho Ulnd which Is more spectacular spectacu-lar and productive of rcreater advances when successful, known as end running run-ning depends altoKether on the kind of back fleld a team has. Ccrtnlniy a team that possesses good interfering and speedy backs will not resort to tho slow and wearing method of penetrating penetrat-ing the line of defense as long as Its speed and Interference will succeed In circling rnds. At the aamc time u leam with c heavy back field capable of smashing a line, but slow In rounding tin; extremes, will play yafe and do a lot of straight and cross bucking. Under Un-der thexe circumstances there will bo many jjames played In which one team will play open and run wide and tho other team will smash the line. In this rcspeci It may be remarked that ordinarily ordi-narily a line bucking loam with heavy backs will b1 more fitted to counteract line plungui,-; on the part of the opponents op-ponents than It will to defend against speed around the ends, and the team with fust, light backs will welter bo- fore line smashing sooner than It will against end running From what has been said It Is safe to conjecture that the year will soo two distinct classes of teams, ono with a line smashing offense and the other with an end running offence. To defend de-fend successfully against theso the defenses de-fenses will have to be altered to suit the cases. The team that can combine tho two offenses and has material enough to dovelop both lines of attack Is the team to be feared, as tho retention reten-tion of tho forward pass will weaken the line as heretofore In the matter of defense, and it will take a defense possessing pos-sessing steady center men. versatile tacklc3 and sure tackling and heady ends and secondary men to adequately repel an offenso that can shift from line plunging and end running at will. Tho change In the rule regarding the forward pass will make little difference except Inasmuch as tho allowing of the pass to be legal over the goal line will keep the defense pretty nearly regular at all the points of tho Held, and It will be almost as easy for a toam to gain under the shadows of the goal posts as anywhere else on tho field. The allowing allow-ing of the pass to bo thrown any distance dis-tance can be very nearly totally disregarded. disre-garded. Very few men can throw a forward paau over twenty yards with any degrco of accuracy, and when It docs go much over that distance It Is very unlikely that a man will bo there to receive It. There Is no doubt that considerable forward passing will be done, although not as much as In past years. Tho play will bo retained by all teams as a, means of building up iiystoins of for-! matlon and will also bo utilized a great deal on the third down, but tho third i down will not como as often as the j second down did under last year's codo. andor this reason tho play will lose much of Its popularity. Tho eliminating of the twenty yard limit has made possible also the eliminating elimi-nating of the field Judge. This 13 a great benefit. It makes the number of competent com-petent officials more possible to secure and will keep out of tho list ono ofil-clal ofil-clal who usually ha3 been used as a makeshift and engaged as cheaply as 1 possible because of the expense In- ' curred. Now the same amount of money put Into three officials as was 1 heretofore put Into four will Insure as 1 good a staff as can possibly be nsk-cl nsk-cl for. and because of this fewer kirks will be heard about the officiating of games. Then, too, the games will go ahead faster, as three men calling fouls will see much less than four, and a lot of delays will thus be prevented. Photo by American Press Association. ANNAPOLIS TEAM LINED Photo by American PresH Association. PRINCETON PLAYERS PRACTICING THE FORWARD PASS The throwing out of the onslde kick makes the gaino more scientific than lucky. Tills. Is 11 good move. Criticism has been rife that football was getting get-ting to depend on luck more than on 1 science. Such u state of nffalr.i ha3 naturally been detrimental to tl.e I gaino. as sport lovers in general like ' science. As It Is. thero will bo plenty of the element of luck present, but a poor team cannot go In now, an here- , tofore. with the Idea In view of taking long chances and getting away with ' (hem. This year punting will be perfected per-fected as far as possible, and with the field shortened the possession of a good punter will be a great asset, while his work will be of such a type that It will be recognized and credit given for It by the close students of games. But while the science of punting, will be favored the 3clcnce of drop kicking und place kicking will receive a sot-back. sot-back. With n touchdown and a kicked "'.il counting seven points It will lak three llel 1 goals to get any advantage t all after tho opposing .Jcam.ha:' latored a touchdown"'and Its accompanying accom-panying goal. Consequently fewer attempts at-tempts will bo made for goals from tho field, and for the firt time In ycara this science will begin to show signs of decline. Out5lde of the necessity of the ten yard zones on each end of the field for forward pass purposes the compolllng of theso zones fills a long felt necessity. neces-sity. For a long time games that have been playoi en email fields and In banc-ball banc-ball parks havo been handicapped by tho goal line being as close as three and sometimes loss yards from tho spectators. Tho result has been that although a team has pushed tho ball Troys the goal line at a point near the side lines it has often been hindered In carrying It behind the posts, and as a rosult the attainment of the extra point has been made more difficult. Injuries In-juries have also resulted from contact of the rushers with fences or the spectators, spec-tators, so that this none at each end of he field will work to moro advantago than one. While the above consideration of tho t ;:.. ... .. ,-.. T-. "If7" v ' .'... .. . .,-;vc$.;- .. . "r-y UP changes stated practically covers every point that has been altered, tho general result of theso alterations has only been considered epcclfically In referonco to tho offcnHC. The offense Is the caslost department to work on this year, as It has practically every advantage In tho way of attack, as It had laat year, tho eliminating of tho onslde kick bolng more than made up for by tho allowing of four downs and the throwing out of a limit on tho forward pass. Therefore, There-fore, the placo where tho changes; will be felt most Is In the defense, whoro moro situations will have to bo provided provid-ed for than ever before, and whero also tho Increased attack will mako It necessary nec-essary to Increase the efficiency of tho defenso If scoring is to bo cut down. Naturally more scoring is expected under the now rules than was tho cano last yoar. Bui whether this scoring Is to be caslor for the stronger or tho weaker team Is wherein thero Is con- I Jcctur. This will depend wholly on IH vnether a team Is weaker defensively. If a team can develop a fair attack It should Immediately turn to the do- IH feasc, for If a team cannot be Kcored H against It cannot bo beaten. There- H fore, the coaches everywhere are plan- nlng on spending most of the early sea- IH son work on defense, and until ?omo of the results of their efforts becomo '.cnown ft cannot be prophesied with fl xny degree of certainty whether tho ol- IH 'c!i3e under the new rules can be sue- cessfully defended against. As the IH rule.", were made for the purpose of l keeping the prestige with the b'g teams IH this point lo what Is worrying tho IH coaches at the larger schools, and It will probably koep worrying thorn until H the smaller. games aro past. I Eight Mon on tho Lino. H It si-ems now that the style of de- H ; 'case will resolve Into eight men on the line, ends playing wide, with rush H line lialf backs again coming into serv- IH Ice, Hie tackles and.guaxds. being made IH responsible for the middle of tHd'Mlno - H and tho center being pulled out of IH place to .back up. One man will prob- H ably be considered sufficient protection IH In the forward pess zone, and the usual H one mun will bo hack for punts, being IH assisted on fourth down by the lull- IH back, who will be pulled away from H his point about fifteen yards behind H If tho rush line halfbacks can got In H fast enough to make tho throwing of H ' forward iascs precarious, this defenso H , will suffice, and some phase of It Ilka- IB I ly will be used. It Is to be doubted if H moro than ono man will bo used to H j back up, as some teams did last year, H ; for th simple reason that an extra IH man cannot be spared for that pur- H poso: Neither docs It deem that more H than ono man can be spared for watch- H lng forward passes. IH If so many men can be spared for IH the line of defense tho lino bucking, JM minus the assistance of mass plays, lf will cause little concern to a defense IH of this sort and n't the same time there H will be plenty of mon on the ends to H combat end running. In such an event H forward passes may be valuable, but H arc unlikely, for eight men across the J line will make It difficult for the re- l celver' to got down under them. From H this It Is plain to bo seen that tho at- H tack can bo counteracted, and that J successfully, according to the ability of IH the men defending. This would put a H premium on a husky defense, and a IH huslcy defense puts a premium on a H husky offenso, so that the greatest re- l suit from the changes In the rules this H year may be the starting of another tM era of heavy elevens. H Whatovor turns out to be the result, H one thing is certain. Thero will be op- H portunltles for every kind of play, and 'M a coach that Is versatile and can train H a team to carry an extensive roster of H formations and attacks will bo a protty M valuable football mentor to havo H around. The quarterback will require M moro of a head than ever before, and H overy man playing must bo able to uso H his brains if ho is to hitch up with any H degree of success under the new code. I Tho day of tho slang called "bonehoad" l Is passed. Tho requirements thta, year H aro brains, alertness and as much weight as is possible, with a propor- M tlonato amount of speed. ft In Game Twenty-two Years vM TOE KELL.EY, manager of tho To- H rontos, who .havo just won tho In- H ternatlonal league pennant, has been H identified with professional has o ball H for twenty-two years. He began hla M career with a pennant wlnner tho H chnmplon Boston Nationals In 1S9L Ho l played left field for the Baltimore Ori- M oles, winners of the ponnant In 1894. IH 1S0S and 1306. Kellcy was captain of H tho Brooklyns, who under Edwarfl Jt Hanlon's management won tho Na- IH tlonnl Icaguo championship In 18G9 M and 1900. It was In 1907 that Keller H landed tho Eastern league pennant for tho Toronto club. Because of this fe&t ho becamo manager of the Boston Na- H tlonnls and tho Cincinnati Rods, with IH whom he did not accomplish much. H Then ho returned to Toronto, tho Ma- H plo Leafs finishing fourth In 1909 and H again In 1910, third placo being at- talnod last season. For eleven con- M secutlvo years in the major leagnci H Kclley battod over .300. IH |