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Show uu WILL DECIDE ON FOOTBALL ARMOR New York, Feb. 12. When the Football Foot-ball Rules Committee meets here late this month, one of the questions which is to come up for discussion concerns the armor worn by the players. There I Is a rule In the code now covering this point, but it fa the opinion of many football men that it should bo made more specific. The committee has received communications stating that some of the equipment worn last season was dangerous to the other players. It has been hinted that the contrivances contriv-ances worn by some of the gridiron athletes on the head and shoulders were designed more as an offensive aid to the players wearing them than as a protection. At any rato, the officials will doubtless bo warned to pay closer attention to head gears and shoulder pads than they have in the past. The rule which now covers this I . I point is as follows: "No player having projecting nails or iron plates on his shoes, or any projecting metallic or hard substance on his person, shall be allowed in the game. U head protectors are worn, no sole leather, papier mache, or other oth-er hard or unyielding substance shall be used in their construction. All devices for protection must be so arranged ar-ranged as, in the judgment of the umpire, um-pire, to bo without danger to other players. Leather cleats upon the shoes shall be allowed." nn |