Rules Explained
The Inter-collegiate Football Rules
Committee at a meeting last week
issued the following interpretation of
the new football rules.
Under- the decision of the com
mittee the second umpire may be
dispensed with under Rule 1. by an
agreenient of the athletic manage
ments of the two institutions repre
sented.
Considering Rule 5, it was voted
that in putting the ball in play the
centre rush may pass the ball back
to one side and need not necessarily
snap it between his legs. In either
case the ball must leave his posses
sion while he is on the line of scrim
mage and must go first to a man
who is behind the line of scrim
mage. Under the same rule it was
voted that in case of a punt out the
catcher of the kick need not raise
his hand as a signal for a fair catch.
The committee declared that the
rule preventing hurdling is intended
to apply only to a man carrying the
ball, and was passed to prevent a
dangerous play. It is intended to al
low under " hurdling in the line,"
stepping over a prostrate player one
foot at a time, even though both
feet of the runner be momentarily
off the ground at the same time.
The section under Rule 11, which
provides that no player of the side
which has the ball shall be in motion
at the moment when the ball is put
into play is construed to mean that
this will not prevent a player from
running backward from the scrim
mage line toward his own goal line.
Under the section of Rule 11,
which provides that none of the five
men occupying the middle positions,
center, guard or tackle, may drop
back from the line scrimmage on
offense, the commitee declared :
- If a captain during the progress
of the game wishes to change a
center, guard or tackle to a position
in the backfield, or to the position
of end, he may do so by speaking
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to the referee ; but no player thus
vacating the position of center,
guard or tackle, shall thei eafter,dur
ing the game, go back to any one of
*those positions "
In discussing Rule 14, exception
1, the committee decided :
" When a forward pass touches
the ground in the field of play with
out touching the player at either
side the ball is dead and goes to the
opponents on the spot where the
ball crosses the goal line without
touching a p:ayer of either side,
when it is touch-back. In both
instances the penally may not be
refused.
" In all cases of unlawful forward
pass, where the ball goes to the op
ponents on the spot where the pass
was attempted ,the bail is dead."
Debate: Trials
State will be represented in the
inter-collegiate debate this year by
G. W. Groff, 'O7, W. F. Wentzel,
'OB, H. M. Braucher, 'OB, and A.
L. Borland, 'O9, alternate. These
men were chosen after an interest
ing and warm trial debate in the
Old Chapel last Friday evening. A
second team, composed of C. E.
Myers, 'OB, Lams, 'lO, Long, 'lO,
and Haven 'O9, alternate, was also
picked to reps esent the College in a
debate for which arrangements have
not yet been completed.
That State has good debating
material is shown by the fact that
fourteen rr en contested. These
were divided into two sections, each
discussing the question of the re
peal of the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United
States.
The principals on the first team
are the same men who won victory
for State in the inter-collegiate de
bate last year Borland, however,
is a new man, taking the place of
Palm, who held the position of al
ternate last year.
Prof. F L. Pattee acted as pre
s'ding officer and the judges were
Vice-President Welsh, and Profes
sors Runkle, Pattee, Foster and
Ray.
Pertinent Questions and Their
Answers
Is there any college in this coun
try where the work is harder than it
is here ? No.
Can any student do good, consist-•
ent work on poor, unwholesome
food ? No.
Can really good food be furnished
on a small scale for $2.50 or $2.75
per week ? No.
Will a saving of about $9.00 or
$lB.OO per college year repay a stu
dent for a loss of health ? No.
Then. why in the name of gocd
common sense don't you try
"Mother" Dunn's $3.00 per week
board at McAllister Hall; where be
cause of the food-stuffs being pur
chased wholesale,the best of quality
is secured, arid then prepared by
"Scotty," an expert chef ?
Stop and Think !
The majority of sensible State
men are now eating "Mother"
Dunn's food, but there is room for
two hundred more in McAllister
Hall. Get in line !
Football
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Annapolis vs. Penn State, at
Annapolis.
Princeton vs. Dartmouth, at
Princeton.
Harvaid vs. Brown at Cambridge.
Yale vs. Vvrest Pcilt, at West
Point.
Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette, .at
Philadelphia.
Wesleyan vs. Soringfield,at Mid
dletown
Amherst, vs. Mass. Aggies, at
Amherst.
Pates vs. New Hampshite, at
T-C"A ston. Me.
Indians vs. Syracuse, at Burialo.
Swarthmore vs. Johns Hopkins,
at Baltimore.
Lehigh vs. Dickinson, at South
Bethlehem.
Bowdoin vs. Tufts, at Tutts.
Oberlin vs. 0. S. U., at Oberlin
West Virginia vs. Geo. Washing
ton, at Washington.