Football

Most discussed of seven football rule changes this year are two:

P: A player withdrawn for a substitute in any period may return to the game in any subsequent period, instead of waiting till the next half.

P: When any part of a ball-carrier's body except his hands or feet touch the ground, the ball is dead.

Other new rules prohibit "diving" tackles, flying wedge formation on the kickoff, substitutions except for injury unless time-out has been called for some other reason, hard knee or elbow pads, "striking" with the hand or forearm by defense linesmen. They are the most extensive changes in football rules since 1906. By last week many U. S. colleges had tried them out in warm-up games.

P: In its first game under famed Coach Chick Meehan, Manhattan had a band, a cannon, a Meehan military huddle, just enough power to tie St. Bonaventure, 6 to 6.

P: Southern California swamped Utah, 35 to 0.

P: Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg's 41st Chicago squad beat Monmouth College by the right score--41 to 0.

P: Stanford played San Francisco for the first time, worked hard to win, 20 to 7.

P: A long pass--Wolf to Freeman--in the last quarter gave South Carolina its touchdown against Sewanee, 7 to 3.

P: Biggest scores in a week of onesided games were Dartmouth's 73 to 0 against Norwich, Cornell's 72 to 0 against Buffalo.

The new rules are designed primarily to make football safer. First football fatality of the season was 18-year-old Foster Stewart of Gaston High School (Alexandria, Ala.) who walked out of the game in the first quarter, toppled over dead on the sidelines.

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