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...story of many a football game but it will happen no more. The National Football Rules Committee, meeting in wintry seclusion at Absecon, N. J., last week, voted a new provision which makes a fumbled ball recovered by the defensive side "dead" at the point of recovery. The new rule "will not apply in case of forward passing, nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore." The committee justified its change with the explanation that a fumble is the error of but one player, not the team...
Immediately, ayes and nays were heard throughout the land. Said Walter Eckersall, former great quarterback: "One of the worst things ever done to the game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
Said Sanford B. White, assistant secretary of the International Harvester Co., Chicago: "Personally, I cannot help but feel that the new rule takes away from the game more than it can possibly...
...best newspaper account of the Yale-Princeton game of 1911 reads as follows: "A sensational, spectacular run of 65 yards by 'Sammy' White, Princeton's hero end, who picked up a fumbled ball out of the quagmire gridiron, won the football game for the Tigers against Yale this afternoon. It was the first time Princeton has beaten Yale since 1903. The score...
Today "Sam" White keeps in trim by playing golf, a game in which he is not required to slide in the mud on his face. An important executive in a great corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...