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Rule 12 to be amended so that in a scrimmage the player putting the ball in play cannot pick it up after setting it in motion until it touches a third man, when the ball is kicked forward as well as when it is snapped back. The opposing centre-rush to count as the second man when the ball is kicked forward. This prevents the centre-rush from picking up the ball from his own kick in the scrimmage...
Rule 14, blocking with arms extended, to be prohibited in a scrimmage as well as when a player is off-side...
...reason is which keeps men from learning this game. At Princeton, during May and June, one sees the men who will play foot-ball in the fall playing lacrosse, the best exercise in the world for foot-ball training. That is what should be done here. Every foot-ball player who is not rowing or playing base-ball should be trying for the lacrosse team. It should form a part of the training for foot-ball. In this way the sport will take the high stand in college sentiment which it certainly deserves. Either something must be done, and soon...
...training are: Phelps, P. G.; Walker, '88; Calhoun, '89; Lindsey, '89; Francke. '89; Day, '89; S.; Wilson, '89 S.; McBride, '90; Dalzell, '91; Dickermann, '91; McClintock, '91; Poole, '91, and Root, '91. The majority of these are good all-round players, and have no remarkable ability in any direction. Walker has played on his class team for three years and is a hard player but he has not developed university abilities. Francke was a member of '89's team which is famous for having lost the "fence game" and played right field. He is not a very sure...
...positions outside the battery equally well. A great deal has been said about Dalzell, '91, and he has been cracked up as a wonderful pitcher. Yale's laurels would not, however, be very safe in his hands. He is a fair pitcher, but not at all the phenomenal player he has been described. It is possible that he and Day will constitute a change battery for practice games, but he has much to learn before he will be able to equal the reliable Stagg. Phelps, P. G., has played more or less during the course, but never on the University...