Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When the football Rules Committee meets next month to formulate the regulations for next year it may very well consider the presence of coaches on the side-lines as a subject requiring legislation. The present rules forbid coaching from the side-lines, and the obvious intention is that when a team is once on the field it shall play its own game, depending on its own initiative for the solving of an opponent's attack and for the successful use of its own plays...
...this particular by depriving coaches of the right to be near their men in competition. In football and baseball the professional aspect stands out more strongly in this instance than in any other one thing. Professional coaching by the best men available is an acknowledged necessity for success in present-day sports, nor is it at all incompatible with the spirit of amateur competition. But let the coaching be confined to its proper time and place, and when a team is once started in a game let it win or lose on its own merits...
...Whereas, the only obstacle to the acceptance of this proposition is the refusal of the United States War Department to permit the construction, under present conditions, of a drawless bridge at this point of any less height than the new Cambridge Bridge...
...which are most severely criticised. In the months following the season of 1905 a similar protest caused the Rules Committee to make radical reforms in the game; It seems likely that some changes must also be made this year to meet the expectations of those who are dissatisfied with present conditions...
...uncertain and desperate expedient. The last game on Soldiers Field showed how seldom this play will be used as long as, it is hedged about by limitations which make it a mere last resource. Such a change would also satisfy those who want a more spectacular contest than the present rules encourage...