Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates, James J. Storrow, Esq., President: Dear Sir,--The Committee appointed by your body to consider the present game of football has collected a great number of oral and written opinions and suggestions from expert players and those interested in the game; has held many protracted meetings, and has arrived at the following conclusions:

(I) That the game possesses too many excellent features to be abandoned;

(II) That it should be radically modified.

Your Committee believes that the present rules are neither explicit nor strictly and courageously enforced; and that the present game offers abundant opportunity for brutality and cheating and makes them profitable risks to take.

Your Committee believes that the game should be made more open and visible.

The following suggestions by your Committee naturally group themselves under two heads:

(a) The conduct of the game, and

(b) technical changes in the playing rules.

Under (a) your Committee recommends:

(1) That in addition to the present officials there shall be a second umpire to watch the conduct of the players;

(2) That the head-linesman shall keep such a position on the field as will best enable him to watch offside play, and that it shall be his special duty to watch for and penalize offside play and illegal formations;

(3) That any player shall be instantly disqualified by either umpire, by referee or by head-linesman for any act of brutality, roughness or insulting talk to opponents or officials, and that a player so disqualified shall not play again in that game and that no substitute shall be permitted for five minutes of actual play;

(4) That a player twice disqualified in any one season shall not be permitted to play again for one year from the date of his second disqualification;

(5) That Rule 17, Sec. (b) as published in the Rules Book for 1905 shall be revised and amplified as follows:

"The players of the side that has possession of the ball shall not hold, block or otherwise obstruct the opponents except with the body; but the player running with the ball may ward off an opponent with the hand. ('Holding or unlawful obstruction' includes (a) grappling the opponent with the hands, (b) placing the hands upon an opponent to push him away from the play, (c) locking legs with an opponent, (d) circling in any degree any part of an opponent with the arm, (e) any use of the arms to lift an opponent in blocking, and (f) any obstruction of an opponent by the hand, arm or elbow";