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Show mm iieist CHANGE IN RULES Yost of Michigan is One of Many Mentors in Favor of Forward Pass Coach "Hurry-Up" Yost, of Michigan, Michi-gan, is one of the western gridiron mentors who will never consent to n chamto in the football rules that will 'curb the effectiveness of the forward pass. Vest recently broke into print with a condemnation for those eastern coaches who propose to limit the usefulness use-fulness of the pa.ss. In that statement state-ment he declared thero was entirely too much tampering with the game and that unless tfcc rules committee learned to let the rules alone as they are, a decrease of Interest In the game will he forthcoming it was Percy Haughton, former Harvard coach, who proposed that the rule makers proldc that a pass blocked behind the line of scrimmage as a punt is now blocked, result In a free ball. Yost takes the stand that to write this cond'tlon into the rule-i Will surely kill the pass because rather rath-er than tak" a chance the team will quit using the aerial stuff Coach Yost would make no comment com-ment on the proposal coming from Frank Cavanaugh. coarh at Boston colleice. that the goal after touchdown be done away with. Yost admitted. hoWever, thai thio marker could be ( dispensed with, probably, without Injuring In-juring the pastime. |