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Despite the fact that the changes in the football rules proposed by Mr. H. C. Coffin '94, limiting the number of plays in a period, were supported by such eminent football authorities as Walter Camp and Percy D. Haughton '99, here at Cambridge they have received a rather chilly welcome. Fred W. Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association; Dr. Paul Withington '09, coach of the 1923 eleven, and R. T. Fisher '12, head coach, have all expressed themselves as opposed...
William W. Roper, coach of the Princeton University football team has stated that he is opposed to the plan of regulating the length of football games by plays instead of time, as proposed by H. R. Coffin '94. Coffin advocates limiting a period to a certain number of plays instead of a certain number of minutes...
...Harry R. Coffin '94, a many years' student of the game of football, has proposed a radical change in football rules, which is to be brought before the rules committee at its meeting late this month or early in March...
Such a change as this would revolutionize the game of football, and, in the opinion of former Coach Percy D. Haughton, Dean Briggs, chairman of the athletic committee, and Walter Camp, noted sporting writer, it would be a welcome improvement. These men, together with Mr. Coffin, believe that this change would stop the extreme variation in number of plays in every game, which is neither fair nor scientific. And it would also prevent teams from playing against time to maintain a small lead, a practice which has caused much trouble in the past...
...service, which was conducted by the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge, was marked by its brevity and the absence of an elaborate ritual. About 12.30 o'clock the coffin was carried by the nephews of the late Major Higginson as far as the door of the chapel, where their places were taken by the undergraduate pallbearers, R. W. Emmons, 2nd. '20, H. S. Walker '20, F. Workum '20, J. N. Borland '21. W. Davis '21, and C. C. Buell...