Sport: Rules

The Football Rules Committee, regulators of the great gridiron game, assembled in Manhattan to legislate for the season which opens next fall. There were many of the great of the football world—Amos Alonzo Stagg, coach of Chicago; W. W. Roper of Princeton; Walter Camp, health expert acting as Secretary; E. K. Hall of Dartmouth, presiding; Walter R. Okeson of Lehigh; John J. McEwan of West Point; D. X. Bible of Texas; H. J. Stegeman of Georgia; G. M. Varnell of Spokane; M. F. Ahearn of Kansas. And they wrote new rules:

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