MEETING ON FOOTBALL RULES

New York, N. Y., February 4, 1910.--At the meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee at the Murray Hill Hotel today the following members were present: L. M. Dennis, Cornell, chairman; Walter Camp, Yale; C. Blagden '02, Harvard; P. Davis, Princeton; J. C. Bell, Pennsylvania; A. A. Stagg, Chicago; Lieutenant Berrien, Annapolis; Lieutenant H. H. Hackett, West Point; H. L. Williams, Minnesota; W. L. Dudley, Vanderbilt; C. W. Savage, Oberlin, and W. A. Lambeth, Virginia. Last year's officers were reelected: L. M. Dennis, chairman; E. K. Hall, secretary, and Walter Camp, editor.

After the election Mr. Dudley presented a report and recommendations from the Southern Athletic Association; Professor Dennis, recommendations from Cornell, Mr. Stagg, recommendations from the Western Conference, and Mr. Williams, resolutions passed by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

The Committee then took up the statement that the game as played last autumn was more dangerous than ever before. A complete tabulation of deaths and injuries for 1909 made by Alexander Moffat of Princeton showed two fatal accidents to players on college teams and showed the kind of plays in which injuries are likely to occur. Incomplete data for previous years, however, prevented any comparisons being made. It was generally concluded that there was too much chance of injury in the game as played last fall and the Committee devoted the rest of its time to tabulating the sources of injuries and to considering suggestions for their eradication by changes in the present rules.

The meeting will be continued tomorrow.