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Show except disqualification or suspension may be returned to the game once nt toe beginning of any subsequent period. The longitudinal lines formerly marking the field are douo away with, as the quarterback, may now cross the line of scrimmage at any point. FOOTBALL RULES ' ARE REPORTED ON Portland, Ore.. Aug. 17. After working nearly all summer the football foot-ball rules committee today made public pub-lic the rules that are to govern the frame during the season of 1910. Changes adopted are revolutionary In character and are calculated to minimize min-imize greatlv the dauger of accidents existing under the old rules. The tlm j of play Is divided into four periods per-iods of fifteen minutes each instead of two 33-minute halves. The usual intermission of fifteen minuies Is jiulntained between the second and third periods, but an Intermission of tnree minutes only is allowed between be-tween the first and second and th? third and fourth periods During this short intermission no player will he r Mowed to leave the field, nor will fiiyone, save the trainer, be permitted permit-ted to come on the field. At the beginning of the second and fourth periods, the teams change naK but the down, the relative spot i.n the down, the possession of the I all and the distance to be gained remain as they were at the conclusion conclus-ion of the preceding period. The flying tackle has been entirely eliminated by a new ruling that provides pro-vides that a player must have at least one foot on the ground when tackling. tack-ling. A player now Is qualified to receiv-! a forward pass only when he is at 1 a st one yard back of his own line of scrimmage or occupies the position ".i tho end of the Hue. No man may make a forward pass or kick the bail vnlesa he is flvo yards back of the line of scrimmage. A forward pass Is not legal If the ball crosses a Hue 20 yard? In advance of the spot whero It was put In play before touching the ground or a player. Interlocked Interference, that Is, P'ayers on the side having the ball inking hold of each other, . or using their hands or arms to grasp their team mates in any way, is forbidden. Another Innovation is that a player T ho has been removed for any causo |