The new rules adopted at the last foot-ball convention in regard to the block game seem likely to answer their purpose exactly. It was plain during the last season's contests that victories would likely be very much the result of chance unless the safety touch was made to enter into the final score. And it naturally followed that this would make the best basis from which to reckon higher scores. A touchdown now equals two, a goal from the field five, and a goal from a touchdown six safeties. No doubt can be entertained concerning the relation between goals from touchdowns and those otherwise kicked. Our game with Princeton showed the immediate necessity of a precise definition in such cases and the disputed point served to naturally strengthen our set of rules. Considerable is still left to the referee, especially in the matter of warnings, and now that the risk of removal is greater it will be the most important duty of the referee to give the fairest possible decisions in regard to fouls.

It is to be hoped that the gentlemen who hold this important position in next fall's games will be found always fair and strictly impartial. It must seem strange to gentlemen unacquainted with the game that it should be necessary to forbid, by the rules, a player's choking or kicking another, or tackling and jumping on an opponent when he does not have the ball and is not in any way likely to have it; but experience has shown that personal safety demands protection by rule from such ungentlemanly proceedings. The time is gradually approaching when gentlemanly and legitimate play alone will be tolerated, and intentional fouls will immediately disqualify. Until that time comes, a team will unquestionably have the advantage if it bases its play on the violation instead of the observance of the rules. Comment on such methods, however, is entirely unnecessary, for the spirit that prompts their adoption cannot be fully appreciated by many.