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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1950)
f DUCKTRACKS 1 By PETE CORNACCHIA Emerald Sports Editor Last football season the NCAA rules committee completely recodified the grid rules, and this season many additional changes were made in the collegiate regulations. There are folks who in sist NCAA stands for Never Consistent About Anything, while others maintain the belief it is the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Anyway, Frank McCormick, Pacific Coast Conference super visor of officials, has picked out the major changes for 1950. With thanks to former Emeraldite Bill Stratton, keeper of records for the PCC Commissioner's office, we’ll list them here. IF A TEAM IS SHORT A PLAYER because of a mixup on substitution, it may play with 10 men. (Old rule specified 11 men, and a delay of the game penalty was inflicted for filling out a team). UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS (including non-participating players) are not allowed within limit line. (Limit line is a broken stripe drawn around the field, five feet from the sidelines and end zones). KNEE BRACES OF HARD MATERIAL are permitted if covered by one-half inch of soft padding. (Casts and other hard devices on the hand, wrist, forearm, or elbow still are prohibited, tygardless of padding). THE FAIR CATCH has been abolished, but the receiver's op portunity to catch the kick may not be interfered with. STARTING OF THE CLOCK after an interruption is gov erned by the following: 1. By a touchdown, touchback, safety, field goal, incompleted pass, or a live ball going out of bounds. 2. To exact a penalty (except for illegal delay). THE REFEREE signals for the clock to start when the ball is ready for play, if the clock was stopped for and of the following reasons: 1. By a free or excess time out; or any illegal delay. 2. To award a first down. 3. At referee’s discretion. IF A TEAM KICKS ON THE LAST PLAY of a quarter and interferes with the other team’s opportunity to catch the kick, the period is extended to permit the receiving team to run one scrim mage play. IF A TEAM RECOVERS ITS OWN FREE KICK in the field of play, a mandatory time out is called. (This gives both teams the opportunity to make substitutions.) FIVE TIME OUTS are permitted each half, instead of four as previously prescribed. (The coach may, without penalty, use a free time out to send a substitute into the game while the clock is running, but before the ball is called ready for play. After five free time outs are used, a substitution while the clock is running will be penalized for illegal delay of the game. Both teams may substitute without penalty when the clock is stopped). THE PROHIBITIONS OF THE FLYING BLOCK and fly ing tackle have been deleted. IF AN OFFENSIVE TEAM IS FOULED on a successful for extra point, it is not necessary to again try for the point. The point is good and the penalty against the defensive team is carried over to the ensuing kickoff. (Designed to discourage de liberate fouls which resulted in no substantial penalty). BOTH THE PLACE KICKER AND THE HOLDER are given equal protection. AN OFFENSIVE BLOCKER MAY USE HIS HANDS and forearms in blocking when they are in contact with his body, and they must be kept below the shoulder of the opponent through out the block. USE OF ELBOWS BY DEFENSIVE PLAYERS has been curbed. When a hand or arm is used by an opponent of a runner, the hand must be in advance of the elbow. A PREVIOUS RULING REGARDING SCRIMMAGE KICKS has been restored. That is, if a team’s scrimmage kick crosses the line of scrimmage and rebounds (untouched beyond the scrimmage line) to a point behind the kicking team’s line, it is a new series (first down) for the kicking team only if that team recovers and advances the ball beyond the original line-to-gain for a first down. ILLEGAL MOVEMENT OF THE BALL by the center prior to the actual snap which draws the defense offside results in a penalty against the offensive team. The ball does not remain dead if actually snapped and the defensive team may decline the j^nalty if the result is more advantageous. US Expands ROTC Program; Enrollment Quotas Increased By ROD SMITH The government announced re cently that the number of ROTC students to be trained at colleges and universities under the Army program will be increased from 120,500 to 154,500. The total in crease of 34,000 calls for an addi tional 9,000, an increase from 25,000 to 34,000, to be enrolled in advanced ROTC. The number to be enrolled in basic ROTC will be increased by 25,000. The Army also announced that seniors and fifth year graduate students are eligible to enroll in a one year advanced ROTC program, if they are veterans with at least twelve months previous service in the armed forces. They must, however, agree to attend summer camp during the summer of 1951 and accept a commission as a sec ond lieutenant in the reserve corps and serve on active duty for two years, if called by the De partment of the Army. Simultaneously, the Air Force is in the process of increasing by Two Graduates Receive Awards Miss Virginia Green and Miss Mary Lewis, two graduates in the department of sculpture of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, have been awarded graduate fellowships. Miss Green, who was awarded a master’s degree in June, is the re cipient of the Bender Grant-in Aid, San Francisco Art Asociation. The scholarship award is for $1500. The architecture graduate will do independent research in sculptural materials. Miss Mary Lewis, graduate in sculpture, has been awarded the Oregon A. A. U. W. fellowship which carries a stipend of $1200. Miss Lewis will pursue her ad vanced studies in sculpture under Professor Mestrovic at Syracuse University. Draftees to Get Refund of Fees Ray Hawk, director of men’s af fairs, has announced the Univer sity’s policy in regard to mili tary withdrawals and the return of fees. Those students who re ceive orders to report to training camp can have a full refund of fees by presenting evidence of their orders to the student affairs office, he said. Horace Robinson Announces Posts Two positions in the University Theater have been filled, Horace Robinson, professor of speech, has announced. Virginia Hall was appointed business manager and Gordon Erickson will act as stage manag er in the laboratory theater. The new business manager serv ed 27 months in the Women’s Ma rine Corps and was a non-commis sioned officer in charge of the stage show and broadcast depart ment at Camp Pendleton, Cal. Erickson was graduated from the University in June and is now a graduate student in speech. Last year he received the University Theater award for the best male performance. This year he will direct the Theater’s traveling show. 4,500 the number of students in advanced ROTC. An enrollment of approximately 15,000 had previous ly been authorized. This increas ed quota is designed to speed up commissions in the Air reserve. This essentially pertains to stu dents in the technical field. Major E. L. Hibner, professor of air science and tactics, has been authorized to enroll in the regu lar two year advanced or one year special advanced course in ROTC all eligible juniors and seniors who are majoring in a technical career field. These are electronic physics, physics, biology, bacteriology, radiology, and biochemistry. The only prerequisites are that juniors must have either two years of basic ROTC or twelve months previous military service and that seniors must have at least 12 months previous military ser vice. Moore Appointed Aide Carlisle Moore, professor orf English, has been appointed assist*-, ant to Dean Eldon L. 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