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Legislation prohibiting the matching of football teams whose players differ in weight to any great extent is urged by John N. Heisman, football coach...
According to the "New York Times" Coach Heisman of Pennsylvania favors "legislation to stop light men being pitted against heavy ones on the gridiron." He would apply the rule of the boxing ring to the football field, asserting that the fact it "did not apply was one of the defects of the game...
...consider Coach Heisman's plan: the proposed rule being passed, a football team must play opponents in the same class, say 158 to 175 pounds; and every man of the team must weigh in, as in boxing, between these figures. The guards and backfield would tip the scales alike. Such a plan, needless to say, would simply do away with football as it is played today. The game might be played under conditions that appeared more equal, but the tactics would change; and as for a college possessing teams in assorted sizes,--well, all that is not football...
...gridiron a scene of brutal sport, especially those who know little about it. Such people would probably object to the game no matter what conditions prevailed regarding weight. And even they must have observed that the big men are as liable to injury as the little ones. Coach Heisman's suggestion leaves us bewildered. Just what does it prove...
...Heisman: Ends. Exerdine of Carlisle and Shevlin of Yale; Tackles, Schute of Michigan and Cutts of the University: Guards, Heffelfinger of Yale and Hare of Penn: Center, Schulz of Michigan; Quarter, Eckersall of Chicago; Backs, Thorpe and Guyon of Carlisle, and Coy of Yale...