Show fOOTBAll RUnS RULES ARt New Pork Dec Intercol Athletic assocIation adopted and su submitted to Its rules committee a resolution calling for n a modIfication o of the football plaYing rules to roo ro duce thice the Injury to contestants to a minimum ml The resolution was Introduced b by Prof E B K Flail Ball of Dartmouth adopt adopted adopted ed after aftel three hours or of acrimonious discussion follows That the football rules committee of this associatIon be Instructed to use oyer possible endeavor to brin bring about such n a cation of tile the rules as In theIr judgment shall tend to re reduce duce to lo a minimum the danger of oC physical injury to PlaYers and at the tho same time retain as g far as possIble tIle tho most desIrable and wholesome of the game Only three votes were regIstered the resolution but nearly r oll ge III n Lao dlO Weal lS 15 some to lo say Hay concerning a Prof A A SR g of the University of o made a motion that would prohibit all officials of oC a football game includIng umpIres referees and participants from Crom talking to a news hewS r titan flIm after aHer the gan Stagg ed saying that ho be had heen beon grossly misquoted at al tImes hut but the convention defeated the motion iv hy ano vote vole The r revision or of tile the gRille game was or ordered ordered dered It Is understood with due duc con consideration of Yale Princeton Penn PennsylvanIa Pennsylvania sylvanIa Cornell and a few other othor In that arc not members of tile the organization liar Bar Barard yard ard IH liar joIned tile the association but Its let It be known au rd has JoIned tile the association but bul its let It be known that his Institution would not IlOt be hound b tilo nc flOt football rules of tho association altHough It would its IU regulation of other minor sports A letter loller wm was read from DavId Jordan President of Leland Stanford university stating that h American game hud been abandoned lh there rc anti and that the tho English rugby game has been found satisfactory not only to the students but to the spec spectators t tors West PoInt submItted a got sel of rose rest which called for a radical change In the playIng rules but these with other resolutions were submit submitted ted for or the r of Hall of Dart Dartmouth Dartmouth mouth It apparent lint the larger colleges were wen in favor of tile tho present layh rules In Ill a form feral and that smaller were violently Iolen 1 to lo Tio representative o oh nearly every lusU o of higher learning between New Nos York find and San Francisco made an address and many offered motions that would limit tIle the hanger danger of tile the present football game ganic J s became so confused thai Halls resolution was adopted as asa asa a compromise Representatives yeS from Cornell and other In not dIrectly sentell ill iii the assocIation suggested that rules ruic minimizing tile tho dangers of the sport port would he be acceptable It was the thc of opinion that rules mass pl plays s and the runni tackle otherwIse as the Hying table antI and through the line would have to be abandoned s of n a number of large colleges expressed themselves not on only only ly h In view of tills but conveyed the threat that they would either cither adopt a form of football ul or would withdraw from flom the association Officers wore elected as follows Captain Palmer E B Pierce U S M MA 1 A West Point president Dl Di R II T McKenzie UnIversity of vice Ico pro ident P W Y NIcholson Wes leani secretary and treasurer Executive F W Marvel Brown university Yo V N Golden PennsylvanIa State college collego I IA A H Pearson University of North I Carolina C W Savage Oberlin OhIo S W V Beer Beyer Iowa State Stale col college lege and C V Uni University ot of MIssouri The Tho mules lules which will un tile the task of bringIng about a revision follows Dr H F Williams Dr James A ti BabbItt Pa Fa E EK EK K Hull Hall Dartmouth H n 13 Hackett U S A West Point Prof C W Savage Oberlin 0 Prof L Lr Lw w r Dudley Dudle Vanderbilt and Dr W V A Lambeth Lambe University of Penns Pennsylvania |