Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 19

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1925. SPORTS. 19 Rockne Praises New Kick-Off Rule : Interest Is Keen in Amateur Golf Tourney BOOT FROM 40-YARD LINE " TO ADD THRILLS, HE SAYS Other Game Now Is Sportsmanlike and Opposes ‘hanges Also Meet His Approval—Declares s 5 Rockne American Boy st vear two radical changes in the kick-off were made. The tee all good kickers used was declared illegal, and the ball was kicked It was thought that eliminating the tee, and thus cutting both height and distance of the ball's flight, would com- pensate 10-yard difference. “But it In't. Repeatedly high school and coliege kickers, accus- oming themselves to a teeless kick-off, sent the ball over the goal line for a touchback. That meant that it was brought out to the 20- put in play. And one of the greatest thrills in foot ball, the return of the kick-off, was almost entirely climinated from the game. In ‘Red’ | teams, rather than an imaginary line irange’s 95-yard rur urt of |On the ground. This means that the 3 heads of the linemen, as well as their Allinois:Michigan WAS 0N hands and all other parts of their of them—were the spectators treated | hodies, must be back of the line of the colorful, thrilling sight of & |scrimmage. It will help avoid misun- man catching the ball, and ten others | derstandings and squabbles. forming themselves into an interfer “The penalty on clipping has been ence in front of him to dash down the | yranqardized with the same purpose— field. So the foot ball rules commit-1,",yoid misunderstanding. When a tes, conferring on 1925 code, declded| yan «clipg’™an" ‘opponent—that: iis, that henceforth kick-offs would “be | prows his body across the legs of the made from the 40-vard line without|giher fellow from behind and brings Hhosres, { him down—his team is penalized 25 vards from the spot where the clip- ping took place. Last year the cap- tain of the side against which the clipping was_committed had a choice of two penalties—15 vards from the point of clipping or 15 yards from the place where the play started. | " “The new penalty is not necessarily more severe, but it is now standard, | and will avold trouble like that which |came up in a Minnesota-Michigan “Another important rule change is|g&ame two years ago when Michigan that affecting the penalty when the |Suffered a mighty stiff penalty for defensive team is offside. The pen-|clipping and thought the Minnesota alty is five vards, as before, but the | captain overstepped his rights. down remains the same. Under the| Rule on Kicks Is Fair. old rules, which penalized the offend- ers five yards and made it first down,| “The new rule on blocked kicks is unfair ‘hardships were sometimes|the fairest vet devised. Its first pro- worked. | viston is that a punted ball blocked “Iremember me-Ne- | behind the line of scrimmage belongs ka game ago in to whichever side recovers it, but which this was illustrated. Nebraska counts a down against the Kickers it had the ball, and it was second down ) that side recovers. Formerly a with 25 yards to go. As the next|blocked kick recovered by the kickers play started a Notre Dame man got | meant first down. Last vear in the offside; and at once it became first|Notre Dame-Wisconsin game Boland, down for Nebraska, the ball was| Notre Dame's left tackle, broke moved up five yards and our oppo-|through a blocked Wisconsin punt on nents had only ten yards to go! There [fourth down. Wisconsin recovered was a case where the old penalty was | the ball, and it became first down for far out of proportion to the offense. | the Badgers. Obviously it was unfair, The new rule makes this impossible: | for Notre Dame had suffered, although for in an exactly simila > the ball | her man had blocked the kick. Under would have moved up five yards, but | the new rules the ball would have it would have remained second down, | goné to Notre Dame In that case, for 20 yards to go. | Wisconsin would have lost a down “To clarify a technical point, the and that would have caused the ball line of scrimmage was re-defined as|to “go over.” a vertical piane between the two| “On a Undue Tampering With Code. 00T sta BALI nds th is going to be a lot more fun for the fellows in the , and for avers as well, because the ball is to be rom the 40-yard line instead of from midfield,” says Knute Notre Dame coach, writing in the September issue of the s ve kicked which )-vard line Wi rom the only a few cas the s game Should Add to Game. A major result of this rule change will be that teams will develop strong kick-off re My teams ar to devote a lot of time to running back kick-offs, for I believe this play will pla < paigns. “And it's go more fun for e side lines and outside them erybody, a Notre T several year ard line and | partly blocked kick which | crosses the line of scrimmage the ball is played exactly as if it had never been touched. This/rule is intended as a clarification to prevent misunder- standings like that which arose in the Michigan-Towa game of 1923. Kipke of Michigan punted, and the ball tip- ped the fingers of Hancock of lowa, but went far across the line of serim- mage. This made it anybody’s ball, | under the old rule; but nobody except | | one official and Jack Blott, Michigan | center, had noticed that Hancock had touched the ball. Blott, like a flash, went_down the field after the punt, and finally fell on it, making it Michi- gan's ball. It was a deciding play in | the game. Under the new rules, how- ever, the ball would not be eligible for Michigan to take until some other Towa player, other than the blocker, had_touched it. “The prompt action of Howard Jones, then Iowa coach, was all that | saved serious troubles on that occa- | sion. The spectators, thinking it a | w’' decision, had become [urious and threatening, but Jones announced that the play was properly executed, and the crowd quieted. | Some Minor Changes. ‘Other new rules are of minor im- partance. One of them provides that trainers and doctors may go onto the field as soon as a man is hurt, report- ing to referee or umpire before speak- ing to the man. The old rule required doctors and trainers to get permission from an offical before stepping on the fleld, and in some cases, like that last Fall when an Army player had to go through two plays with a badly smashed foot before the doctor could catch the umpire's eye, worked out padly. ‘The time out rule has been | slightly to provide that, when | is injured, time is called and stitute goes in, it counts as one of | the team’s four ‘times out’ in the half unless the team has already called for time four times. This is intended to speed up the game slightly “The recommendation of the rules committee that high school games be played in four 12-minute quarters, in- stead of in 1s-minutes quarters, is a mighty wise one. The average high school team is not as husky and well- conditioned as a college or university team, and elevens of younger fellows should profit by this advice. “The rules committee did well, in my opinion and that of all the coaches to whom I've talked, to limit their rules changes to details. There are always a lot of foot ball fanatics who want to introduce sets of rules to | make the game more like soccer, or | more like Rugby, or more like tiddle- de-winks, bobbing up each Fall. But none of the new rules of that classi- fication, Foot ball is a good game now, a healthful, sportsmanlike game, and undue tampering with its rules can do nothing but harm.” L HOLE IN ONE IS MADE ON MUNICIPAL COURSE | R. D. Betikofer of Washington, | playing as a member of a foursome {on the East Potomac municipal golf {links, has made himself eligible for | | membership in the Hole-in-One Club. | Yesterday, using a spade mashie on | the tee, Betikofer got an eagle single- ton on the eighth hole, 110 yards. altered | a man | a sub- | | involve the gradi Story of a Graduate Manager The Truth About College Foot Ball Finance CHAPTER II. . New Forces in Foot Ball. (Copsright, 1925, by North American Newspapen Alliance.) N the preceding chapter the writer touched on changed conditions I which affected foot ball—the drive for winning teams, the organiza- tion of alumni, the increase in popular interest which has built up community support and the tremendous expenditures emtailed. If we understand these conditions thoroughly it will be easier to take a sensible and enlightened view of the entire problem. During_the last few years the West| in the flush of their success the towns- and the Middle West have come into| people were determined to use their their own in foot ball. For the first| college to help put the town on the time they rank with the big Eastern|map. I paid no attention to the first teams on the field, and in attendance | letter I received from them, but a at games, investment in stadia and in| second letter mentioned a possible the general intensity of public inter-|salary so interesting that I took a est there are many of these outlying | trip down to the ofl town. institutioss which rival or outstrip the| To my surprise, although my letter big Eastern colleges. There is a rea-| had been from a man supposedly con- son for this: | nected with the college, I was direct- Consider Harvard, Yale and Prince-| ed to the attorney for the local cham- ton. During the last 10 years the in-| ber of commerce. crease in the endowment of Harvard was 5 per cent, Yale 60 per cent and Princeton 50 per cent. Michigan's in- crease for the same period was 187 per cent; Minnesota, 68 per cent, and Wisconsin, 87 per cent. Last year the enrollment of men in these colleges eligible for foot ball : Harvard, 2,744; Yale, 2 2,176 Michigan, Wisconsin, New Western Preponderance. Why this Western preponderance in money and men? The answer is found in two circumstances. The Western colleges are State-supported institutions, with board of regents, | for the most part elected by popular | vote. Furthermore, many of them | have large land holdin zned to them in early days, and with later | increases in value piling up tremend- | ous revenues. Regents seeking votes have found that a liberal attitude toward athletics is approved, and, reciprocally, well| supported teams have boomed the col-|over the college. lege and attracted students. little .school, with with considerable blackslapping and overwhelmed me with expensive cigars, and then took me into his private office. After a whirlwind oration about the new Oilburggushers, he explained that Blah College was a good little joint, but it had had a Iot of old mossbacks running it and it needed some new blood. Above all it needed a regular go- getter foot ball team which could step out and put Ollburg on the map. “Some of the boys” in the Chamber {-of Commerce were getting together pool to start the thing off, but there no doubt of returns: just get out a couple of winning teams and nobody would have to worry about mone Princeton, the attendance at the college and a hint of what a big attendance would do to property values around the campus. Blah College Succeeds. With the Oilburg booster, I looked It was a pleasant leges, the competition for athletes and | made a fair showing in their sectional winning teams has slowly become sec-|athletic conference. But, in spite of tional, and in more ways than one the | the attractive salary, I felt I should East is competing aj t the West.|be too far out of the world. I de- The struggle has been stimyating to| clined the offer. They procured an- foot ball, with the addition of the big|other man, perhaps better qualified sectional factors, and in the East as|than I for their purposes, at a salary well as the West the alumni and the |of $16,500 a year. They organized a community have been recruited behind | scouting system which covered sev- the team. eral Sta they procured a first-class As a graduate manager, I have seen the publicity for the enter- this inevitable development on the|prise was handled by a competent way for years. And I also have seen |young reporter who also did the pub- that the inescapable tendency was to|licity for the Chamber of Commerce. ate manager in out-| Within three years the Blah College ide affairs, in State or town politics |foot ball team was at the top of the of one sort or another, and require|heap in that section. The attendance from him capacities for contriv-|at the college has since more than ing and manipulating and adjusting | doubled; undreamed of in the old days Big Salaries for Managers. I first began to realize this a few years ago when I was offered position of graduate manager third-rate college in a little city. This town had struc the town has profited im- |it by the foot ball team. I am told that some of the members of the faculty now are expressing the | grave concern about the “commercial- in a|ization” of their foot ball team. This, outhern | I think, points the whole story. Th oil, and!knew perfectly well what was happen- This gentleman, | rather ornate and vociferous, met me | There were other plans for booming | sound academic | With the rise of the Western col-|standards and traditions, and they had | | measurably from the advertising given | v | ed their game to Thursd ing, as I realized when I visited the campus, with my noisy friend of the Chamber of Commerce, but they said and did nothing. The business of the five members of the faculty athletics committee was either to say ‘“hands off,” or else join in frankly, without secretiveness or restraint, and let the world know that Blah College was out for players and winning teams and at- | |tendance and appropriations, and in- tended to get them. Has a Wide Application. This bald incident, I believe, ha wide application to college athletic general, and the problem of outside participation and support. In a more subtle way, to be sure, it is the force of outside interest—which often is es. sentially commercial—which has inex- tricably involved foot ball in a rami- fication of new forces. That's why a graduate manager should be a good politiclan. In a later chapter I shall have something to say about this. (Tomorrow: Foot ball as Big Busi- ness). COLLEGE FOR LEARNING, SAYS HEAD OF BOWDOIN BRUNSWICK, Me., August 21. To the Editor of The Star. Dear Sir: I have read with interest the arti- cles on college foot ball finance, ad vance sheets of which you were kind enough to send me. * The viewpoint of the writer is fun- damentally different from that of a faculty member, particularly in his conception of a college. Your writer thinks of college as primarily devised for character formation, and conse quently belleves that foot ball coaches | are giving the boys better training for | | their life work than the professors. This in spite of all the abuses and subterfuges of collegiate athletics. | Agalnst that point of view allow me | to suggest that the college is pri-| | marily an institution of learning. | The college is not devised to give training that does not derive from in- tellectual sources. So long as athletics are made sec ondary to the main purpose of the college, well and good' But such ar ticles as these mislead the public by giving a false impression of the real mission of college and university. The great popular intere letics is all very well in a way. like the weather—a good topic for general conversation: but when col- | lege graduates and friends of higher education confine their attention chiefly to athletics it denotes an intel- lectual thinness characteristic of those who spend most of their time | talking about the weather. | Many of the facts given by your | writer are, T think, familiar to most people who have been in touch with the problem of college athletics, but he presents them in a very readable | and stimulating manner. You very truly, | KENNETH C. M. SILLS, | ‘President Bowdoin College ath- It is |1ana R | SHIFT HAWK-PULLMAN TILT. | Pullman and Mohawk base ball| | teams, scheduled to pla Congress | Heights Field tomorrow, have switch- | at 5 o'clock | in Georgetown Hollow WEALTH OF YOUNG STARS MAKES EVENT UNCERTAIN |MacKenzie of Washington Among Those Figured to Upset Dope at Oakmont—Carter, Winner of Western Title, Being Watched. BY RAY McCARTHY. EW YORK, August 25—There is a keener interest tf N the approaching national amateur golf championship, not on cause the event will be restricted to 16 players, but also because of the number of rising young stars who are apt to upsct completely. Looking over the list of 128 playe qualifying round next Monday, there arc unknown youths who will bear watching There is Keefe Carter, for instance, who Jones in the qualifying round. The Oklahoma Strongest field that ever competed for the W ship only a month ago to win the title. He age to win the national championship The spectators at Oakmont will | 17-year-ol have a fine opportunity to get an idea | Club pro of Carter’s style when he plays with | something Jones, whose game is perfection itself. | best accom; calculations ho will broke throu amateur ct stern s learned Hj was 1 the N in round of the Western Fred Lamprecht, intercollegiate champ, who has been enjoying a won- | derful year. In that match Carter | had to play virtually par golf to beat | Lamprecht by 1 up. None but a voungster of ability and courage could turn such a trick Other Youthful Stars. Russell Martin, who was beaten by Carter in the final round of the West ern amateur championship, is coming along rapidly. He is a very steady| Rial ¥ porformer, who has obtained a lot | Shute, West te « of experience in the last two years. | Dick Jones and E Held also car Dexter Cummings of Yale, a stal- | be counted on to hold their own with wart youngster, is due for a good |the more experienced plavers, and i showing. He went to the third round | will not be at all su of the championship at Merion last |eral of these displa vear, where he was beaten by Max |veterans Marston in a close struggle. The ex- | a perience gained in that competition is certain to help him at Oakmont. HEADS ATHLETIC CLUB. Another boy who is sure to attract considerable attention at Oakmont is| La the 18-year-old Washington star, Ro- | preside MacKenzie. His feat of carry- | Athlet ing the aggressive George Von Elm to | recentl the thirty-seventh hole after being 8 down in _the first round at Merion i history. MacKenzie won every title in his home section this vear. Winthrop P. Hersey of Boston is a modest, unassuming lad who is likely to create a considerable sur- | prise Oakmont if things start| breaking his way. In the recent |, TaKing Massachusetts State amateur cham. | FO™ tF plonship he pushed right through to | the final round, with everybody ask. | their lead ing one another, “Who is the kig?" |Mmental Tennis Le In the ultimate round he met Francis Ouimet and only remarkable golf stopped the light-haired lad. Hers is comparatively short from the tees but he never misses. His direction | is his forte. i3 Then there is young Jack Mackle Canada Offers Threat. 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