i A RECORD SEASON Over 1,209 G&mes Scheduled by Colleges and Schools The Sensational Coy. 3 Br FREDERICK R. TOOMBS. rAVING surviv ed the fell de signs of the multitudinous re formers, the bonny game of football is once more about to disport itself on the S, . . . form of sport that could put up with TV. 8. DUDLEY. what f00tball has undergone and yet survive. Talk about animal vivisection. Nothing to it. Foot ball has literally been blown from the cannon's mouth of late years, and with Infinite care the scattered pieces have been gathered up and assembled Into something like their original entity, and, after all, only something like it. . However sincere may be the pessi mistic grunts of the admirers of the old time game, with its bone crushing joys, they cannot dissipate" the cer tainty that the new season, soon to open, will be one of tremendous inter est and activity. While the first con test of more than a meager local inter est will be played Saturday, Sept. 18, the season of 1909 can hardly be stated to open before Saturday, Sept. 25. On that date about twoscore , elevens widely scattered over the country will awaken Into action on the gridiron of FAMOUS FOOTBALL STAKS WHO WILL BE FEATURES OF COMING ; SEASON. ' - iiuy luuieau ol pracLiee auu mwi,, 111 officially scheduled contests. Among the teams that will play oil this inaugural day are those of the ' universities of Pennsylvania, Kansas, Maine. Minnesota and Virelnia and "Sewanee university; St. Louis univer sity, Holy Cross, Kentucky State, Ohio State, Carlisle and Brown. Over 1,200 Games. The fact that over 1.200 eamea are .already scheduled to be played during ; -the season of three months between teams of colleges, schools and other educational institutions Is .indicative of the Importance of football to the asport lovers of the land. It is practl cally impossible to ascertain how many -ames will be played by athletic clubs, T. M. C. A.'s, military organizations, etc. .... aiany changes are noted in the new miles, Tecently issued in Spalding's of- :ficial football guide. While a large percentage of the alterations are of minor importance, others will have an Important bearing on the technical .side of the game, though not neces sarily -changing the appearance or -.:f orm of the game as played last year. "Therefore the changes In the rules . ipR-ill be more noticeable to the -players rthan to the spectators. '',' The new members of the rules com mittee are Crawford Blagden of Har ' -vara, Parke H. Davis of Princeton, W. A.. Lambeth of Virginia and W. S. jXangford of Trinity, New York. 7 W. S. .'"Dudley of Yanderbilt university, south ern member of the rules committee, "-rwrfnrmed valuable services In the re drafting of the regulations for this '.year. Changes In the Rules. -cussed at considerable length by" tha juies commiuee, was anowea re Tnflia' the tame as last- year,- the oaly alteration of an Kind' beingr thkt thff -amies now make It clear and definite ?tnt there la a zone lying behind the FOR FOOTBALL How the New Rules Will Affect 4he Game. A Change Jn Scoring, Etc. . J Rcrimmage line, in which space an end might stand and by assuming this po sition be not eligible in any event to receive a forward pass. This position is more than one foot back of the end of the scrimmage line and not a full yard back. No man occupying this position is eligible to ' receive a for ward pass, the object of this rule be ing to make a man stand either up to the scrimmage line or- a full yard back,' where the official can readily see that he is not on the line. A most vital change in the rules is that regarding scoring. For several seasons the advisability of reducing the value of a field goal has been dis ;ussed, and particularly the advisabili ty of reducing the value of a kicked goal from placement. This year the matter took on form, and the value of a field goal was reduced from four points to three points, regardless of how the goal from the field might be. scored. Option as to a Kickout. A second arid possibly still more im portant change was the provision that a side having a kickout (kicking the ball out into play by a member of a team which has touched the ball down oenina us own goal line) may nave tne- option of taking the kick, as under the present rules, or having the ball down for a scrimmage on their twenty-five yard line. This, it is easy to see, Is a very important change, and it provides a very great release to any team driv en down into its own goal, particularly when there is a strong wind blowing against them. This change will permit a team that has been forced to make a touchback to have some chance to get out of their difficulties even if the wind is against them. Formerly they were forced to kick the ball out while the opponents stood waiting for it and ready to make a fair catch, or, failing In that, still to have" a good chance at a drop kick. The defensive side were forbidden to kick the ball out of bounds, and hence their helplessness, for even if the first try by the opponents failed to make1 a ' goal it put the ball across the goal line once more, and the defenders were in , the same difficult position again- Now, under the new rule, in the first place; a side has all the advantages of kicking out as under the present rules and none of the disadvantages, for' they may scrimmage the ball on. the twenty five yard line instead of taking the kickout. That gives them a chance at the run ning game and an opportunity to work the ball out a little at least, with the possibility of considerable gain. Then, again, if held they can pass the ball back for a kick,, and the kiekercan kick the ball out of bounds, a play which is perfectly legitimate from a scrimmage, and thus render any, at tempt of the opponents to make a fair catch nil. " : - - - , Aids Original Defensive Side. . The rule goes, still further, too. if fol lowed out to its legitimate conclusion. It has always been a good point for a team having a strong kicker to "kick' the ball across the goal line on, the kick-off, ' because then the opponents lost their opportunity for a running game, being obliged tQ kick out, and neftee the side' having Ikicfced off had also the first chance to show their run mug gnuie. j.u ib provision la rauiy, therefore, equivalent to conceding the ' side which received the kickout what-, is equivalent to catching the ball and running it out, with safe conduct, until they reach their twenty-five yard line. If they merely touch the ball back this touchback gives them this- privilege. As there have been some discussions from time to time as to players taking ap the game for the first time and not . knowing what the names of the posi tions mean, the rule book this year will have a definition of the positions and a designation of the players as ordl-c aarily grouped. ' .;..',-. .... ?t In several games last year the ref-j; eree blew . his whistle to indicate a -: foul, sometimes inadvertently, and as the referee's whistle made the ball lead it was impossible for the offended side to take advantage df whatever run they made by refusing the' penal ty. For this reason the rules this year call particular attention to the fact: that the referee should never under any circumstances blow his whistle to r thus indicate a foul. . However, If he . should inadvertently do so the ball Is still dead and play must stop. One or two changes -were made for the sake of making the penalties uni Eorm, and it was suggested by the rule -. makers that the position of the referee should be behind the line of offense. Coy the Greatest of Players. , i There seems to be no. one in sight at this time to challenge the suprema cy of E. H. Coy of Yale during the gridiron campaign as the greatest player of the country. Coy is one of those rare instances of the ideaV play er. Physically ' and temperamentally he is the embodiment of . the qualities needed in the all around player. '. Not only is he a fast and sturdy runner and on the defensive a sure tackier, : but he Is a quick thinking, a sure 'thinking and a far thinking general.; Not only is he a swift dodger and a' ! crushing, crashing line plunger, but he Ifails to lose his temper when his op- 'ponents .calculate that most likely he I will, for making a man lose his tem !per is part of the game of football. It iwas a true description that a New j York football, reporter wrote at the close of the Yale-Princeton game In the New Jersey town last .November. I He wrote, "Yale power , defeated., ; Princeton, and its name was Coy." jThis former Connecticut' schoolboy, !: : to wheaded and demure, who ; used to t kneel and humbly say his prayers at j his mother's knee, has become ; the i only old and original human bomb, land when he explodes, somebody's rush lime is usually sprinkled over the dis tant geography. Page, All Western End. Another warrior of the. pigskin Jtrails who will loom big in the' fore this year is H.; Orvllle Page, the new captain. 'of the University , of Chicago eleven. He succeeds a man who made a wonderful record, Steffens, as also did the captain that went before the latter, Eckersall. Although Pageparts his name in the middle, he is an ex-, ceptional end player.; He , was the choice of. all the experts for an end position on the all western team of last season. - 4 : f ; The Decline In Sicking. To close observers of the game it is apparent that the kicking department has not been developed to its fullest possibilities of recent years, . Today the names, of the reliable drop kickers, place kickers or punters can be named on the. lingers of one, hand. Coy of Yale and Victor Kennard of Harvard have - shown considerable ability in this line, it is true, but th'ey' do not touch the high water mark of the pig skin booting art. What the kickers will achieve this year Is impossible to predict, and so far as the east Js .con cerned probably Coy and Kennard will prove the leaders. Kennard, with the experience of last year to depend on, should, like Coy, show advanced abili ty in this direction. The tendency is" to develop line buck ers in these later football days and to let the kicking end look pretty much after itself. - But kicking ability can be made' to show valuable results In the score columns if wisely directed,' and coaches and ' captains" will make a decided mistake If they, continue in the shortsighted policy that In this respect has marked the' Immediate past . The Latham Monoplane. The Latham' monoplane, of the type :aned Antoinette, is the invention of m.. JLevavasseur. Above its ekifflike iluminlum body are spread two - ob ong rings. The single propeller is tituated in front of the main body, (rhile directly below it is the motor, with a self condensory boiler. At the rear of the body Is the pilot's seat. ind behind him extend two vertical rudders for. lateral movements and a iorizontal tail for governing the alti tude. 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