The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 17

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922. FOOTBALL. RULES NOW IN FORCE SATISFACTORY TO COACHES ONLY FOUR MINOR CHANGES IN GRIDIRON PLAYING CODE Penalty for Delays in Start of Games and That There Be No _ Change in Officials After They Have Been Accepted by Both Teams Passed—Many Suggestions Voted Down. About one hundred coaches from all parts of the country held their annual meeting at the Hotel Astor game is satisfactory. This is a wise move needlessly confused by frequent changes, sideration, decided to recommend only four minor changes in the pl code to the Rules Committeo which will meet early in the new year. gned + several wecks ago as West Point's Major Charles Daly, who r coach, presided, Io was bombarded by a volley of recommendations and Suggestions by numerous coaches who made long gains carrying the conyer- gational ball‘ only to run out o: bounds. A suggestion to bar all coa from the side Nnes during the prog of & gdme was thrown oul, Another idea that the head coa: 1 go out on the field and direct the stra- tegy of his team met a similar fate. Early (Greasy) Newe, 1s coach at Washington and Jefferson, advocates the lessening of the penalty for holding. This s @ied on its feet as no representative trom Harvard, Yale or Princeton would approve i To many coaches and (ho writer Nealo’s recommendation had a tot of merit, It seems unfalr to pena team f the distance gained in four plays. With a + Penalty oMfcials would be m to call holding, which, under present conditions, ix only penalized when holding occurs on a vital play PLAN OF HEISMAN HAS FEW SUPPORTERS. As a means of lesser creasing number of tio mes John Heisman, who recently resigned as Penn’s chief mentor, ad ed a plan by which each team be allowed three @dditional downs following the fin whistle and that one point be awar¢ to the team gaining the greatest amount of ground in these additional lays. Heisman's pian had tew porters. “Buck” O'Neill, former coach at Columbia, urged that a tie gan’ decided by awarding the game to the team having made the grestes of fiyé downs. His plan was mor warmly received, but failed to bi accepted, After considerable ¢ Daly declared it tho sen. of th ing that for the present no taken by tho assuciation. Action on ten sugges changes as offered by pointed for that purpore A proposal to pr use of dirt in making tee for a kick-off. Voted dowr A suggestion by Major Ca thet t! associ jon recommend to t Rules Committee that change in the personnel of officials they have been accepted by both t Passed. A sug: 8¢ excessl n that the Central Committee asked to legis!a aguinst the late ar al of te 3 at the be- ginni of games and at the op halves and the sett! cover samo. Passed. ‘The coaches voted against a suggested recommendati that the penalty f holding be tncreased. ‘A suggestion made to change the rule relating to a player touching a hall while offside was vot approved ‘Phe coaches yoted approval of the pres- ent rule, in the present rule relating to ‘shift: tho coaches yoted to recommend th: the word “momentum” now ured tn the rule be stricken out nd the word motion” substituted. coaches pointed out that the word momentum was causing much confusion, A suggestion thet tho assoctation urge the appointment of an official ecorer for football the same ss is provided for Dageball games was voted do ‘A recommendation advanced f ing the number of pl also was defeated. ‘A proposed recommendation t a touchdown resulting from cepted forward pass was d by the meetii During the d on the to further lindt “clipping” and to pose a heavier penalty. Major Fr: Cavanaugh, coach at Foston Colleg anid that any further attempt to limit what was left of p ical contact and aggressiveness in the game would alie~ nate public support and “we need their dollars.” The Boston ¢ that ff the spirit ht ret i] and {t detericrated into “a po and kicking game,” the final result would be “that our college students will have nothing more exciting le to play than the thrilling and blood-curdling game of parches!.”" The committe sus: Central Rules Committe adopt a few simple uniform algni during games. These signals, the cor m.ttee held, should be like those used fn baseball umpires to Indicate 4 man was “‘out’ or ‘safe’ and in call- ing “balls and “strikes."’ During th discussion of this eugges- tlon the coach all agreed that such a lem of cignals needed to make alties to ch also sald be urged tw of some of the plays iufeliigent to the public. None of the speakers wante vumber over five, and adve hey all be made by the use of the 4 ated to work out a set of sig will be gent to the Centra mittee with the indorsement of the sociation. Another sugge meeting was that of asl Rules Committee to have tnciuded In the rules book a chart positions of the offictal =v Harvard’s Super- Athlete, FRENGH GOLLEGIANS George Owen Jr., Retires WOULD MEET U $,| George Owen, Jr ATHLETES IN PARIS for Track Read at Annual N A. A. Convention. ?in June Excelled at Football, and Baseball and Lost Only Once to Yale. Invitation By William Abbott. a. Harvard athletics and has already won ae will be no more tampering with football rules ugxt with two me * seven times, By Joseph Gordon. there will 1 international nd field meet in Paris sterday and decided the present as the football publ hes, after hours mighty dollar ovd up bo last 4 resenting American colleges in com- athletes trom the During the seven- enth annual meeting of the National i : Association now in Astor an invita- petition, with cMeges of France. and baseball t CRIMSON DEFEAT WAS ANTICIPATED, | SAYS HERD TREAT Tiger ‘Tackle fests How Harvard Backtield Moves Were Guessed Correctly. Owen has played on thre While no ‘decisive action w on the invitation from the I pointed to take the matter under con- consensus of son of George Massachusetts Technology, frills directly ® trip to Paris & good record o head athletics and the interest munifested rd a : . Plerce at the opening of t s position on the diamond is first gs and’ district committee! expected that sm would come up for dis- ya lot with his s It isn’t that tantalizin r team was taught to Princeton tackle,} District reports the morning session, which takes nature and ¢ PHYSICAL DIRECTORS OF COLLEGES CALL FOR. CLEAN-UP IN SPORTS Calling on the colleges of the East to follow the example of the ern Conference and start a general house cleaning in ath- John of Ohio State. ydeterday made the key- note speech at the annual meet- ing of the Society of Physical Di- rectors in the Colleges at Colum- bia. St. John made his topic * Future of Interscholastic Sports of the Financial Re- odd moments 1 » Columbia Univer House at Har 6 spare moments on the a touchdown ning point of Princeton's ictorious season. George Owen of Har ardest man Prin defense was North Carolina State College and that was ton had to step. seventh, Major ed to us to be the b boys expected } game with Princeton he hob- nd told them all Denver Univers » were going to win,” had great respect 11 be made by t r anding Committees mark the season y it could be followed their instruc- coaches showed Rules Committee, tral Board ¢ Association Foot and the Us turns Therefrom.”” St. John declared that it was up to the colleges to stamp out pro- fessionalism at any cost, to put the soft pedal on the over em- phasis of sport, with stress on |, to stop undesirable pub- end to the ‘Victory schemey and end ation periods attention once and then ba hockey team el competition 1 was hack, cn ‘ ne Harvard man, Rules Commit licity, put ai at any cost Buell was back, drop Kick or a forward pass St. John quoted educators to the effect that sport, not as black « 's it was painted Dr. Edgar Fauver of Wesleyan, President of the society, pleaded for reformation in athletics. resolution was adopted calling for a general survey by a committee which will report on ‘the need of a careful formulation of the aim end scope of, intercollegiate ath- When ¢ cane fell back, on the field BLOUIN-FALCARO BOWLING MATCH CARDED JAN. 8-11 es between Jimm) Falcaro, to be staged at © chences at Chic e shall be no t touchdown it seemed 2 all just natu t we were good and that's why we louin and Jo the Randolph » afternoons of Jan, . for a $2,000 purse. Blouin has been piling up tenpin honors . defeating all the other Thomas of og of Orig inal Celtics hie to Play y Guike With Deaf Mute Lo te Meet Silent Separates on Jan, 6 at 22d Regi- ment Armory. opinion, George Owen iy better, offictals were of where they a game and twenty-three that they often got {nt been hitting maple sticks for big His latest triumphs have been should be teamed t baseball umpires work togeth 13 and victories over Phil Spinella, TRUSTEES’ INCREASED FROM FIVE TO SEVEN. , ten each afternoon, Falearo will leave for the West Jan, Trustees from five to seven members, and to make each retiring President an ex-officio member gates Noted to € will be heka. ty t four mem- ‘4 of Trustees nd three for a neriy the trustees the foremost “BRICK” MUELLER NOW WORKS AS STEVEDORE served a term of left. no memb rs on the board familiar and problems of the ,Jeiation waa widened through the f a plan which provides for nd for the a n assistant secretary a Btevedore or Christmas vacation, when Qe will re- a Bachelor's degree. How to Play Basketball World’s Greatest Player Will Expl Every Feature. world’s leading Director at Chicago Universi cs indorsed the principle of fair p huivalry ameng the Before adjourning a resolution sted that the}playing on the part of college gradua At the close of the banquet the clec- to be used by football officials | association was announced for 1923: _Hiseman of the University of author of “Scientific Basketball,” will explain every angle of the game in a series of articles, Wilce of Ohio em to series will cover . how to play individual po, , and tips on training and Lawrence Perry regular seasio: up into little meetings and far over last season fon adopted by the g the Central wing the typical It was pointed eut by some of the epeakers that some s of players should not miss chance to improve their game. emed to bo erttt. merican selections, cising Camp's All ARMY-NAVY GAME HERE; PROBABLY AT POLO GROUNDS New York City fe the cholce for the next Army-Navy football game. Formal approval by the athletic authorities at the two academies is all that 1s neces- sary to put the arrangement through, according to Col. H. J. Koehler, who ts in charge of physteal education at West Point, and who came here from a ec ference at Philadelphia botween repre- entatives of the Army and Navy on the subject of a site. Subject to the approval of the West Point and Annapolis authorities, the game will be played 1 Nov. 24, probably at th Col. Koehler stated. The avy signed a new four The emies will continue to alternate in the privilege of selecting the city In which the game is to 1 and the Army, having the choice for has plek YEW HAVEN ¢ ors ¥ Dee, 28 NEW HAVEN, midwinter session of uatern I clubs opens here to-day with, the fc presentation of the pennant to Haven, winners of last season's Among the matters scheduled fc uission are the draft, and several pe titions for reinstatement from players Who broke contracts during the ‘last year he 1923 schedule will also be prepared . 13-YEAR-OLD BOY OF JERSEY LEADS AGU SKATING JUNIOR GOLFERS fon smn TOURNEY OES. of 22 youngsters ranging in age from eight to fourteen years, took part in the qualifying round of Pinehuret’s third annual junior championship tournament on the difficult No, 8 course yesterday and qualified in five divisions of four players each and with scorés ranging from 46 to 104 for the nine heles of play.} Dates and figures for the national George T. Dunlap jr, of Summit, N.| "eure skating championships of the J, thirteon years old, winner of the] United States wore announced by James qualifying round and victor in the 1920] 4. Crulkshank yesterday, and 1921, led the field by a margin of | The competitions will be held in the two strokes and annexed the medal with | Arena, New Haven, Conn., on Feb. 15 a card of 46 for the nine holes. and 1 under the direetion of the \New Walter Swoope of Morton, Pa., four-| Haven Skating Association. ‘The events , followed with 48, Forbes | Will comprise national figure skating years o} Wilk the twelve-year-old son of Wil-| championships for mi women, pair Ne Wits the York Harbor and Pi ‘skatin waltzing, fourteen step and hurst professtonal, qualified with 60, | fours. ‘ : On Thursday, ¥ 5, the events wil Paterno of New York, age fifteen. |g women's junior championships. finikhed in 56 and completed the first} school figures and “ree skating; women’ « division. senior champlonship, school figures, Tho second four all qualified in 59 or|Juntor champtonship pair skating. wal better and the highest score to yet into]ing “championship and fourteen step the third four was 08. championship, Joln Bradford Armstrong of New] The events on Fob, 16, will London, eight years old and the baby |r junior champtonship, sehool fly of tho’ tournament, qualifled for the}ures and free skating, men’s senlo: fourth four with a round of 74 Jobnniefchampiouship, school figures and free is fmproving with age. 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