Decision of the Graduate Advisory Committee.

At a meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association, which was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York on Saturday evening, it decided by a vote of 3 to 1 that the play of Corbin, the Yale centre-rush in the Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgving Day, was perfectly proper and in accordance with the rules of the game. The point made by Harvard was that Corbin had picked up the ball and rushed with it before another man had touched it, thereby breaking rule 29, which says that the snapper back or the man opposite him shall not pick out the ball with the hand until it has touched a third man. The committee voted 3 to 1 that a scrimmage ends the instant the ball is properly put in play, and that the ball is so put in play either by a kick forward or a snap back; and that the snapper back, therefore, can kick the ball forward, pick it up, and run with it before it has been touched by another player.

The committee therefore has finally decided that rule twelve means that a scrimmage ends the moment the ball is moved legitimately from a down, and also that rule twenty-nine is in consequence, not applicable to a kick forward.

Referee Hancock was unanimously exonerated from the charge of having had money up on the game. Several other matters were brought before the committee, among them the dispute concerning the ruling off of Cowan in the Harvard-Princeton game. On this point the committee resolved that when a man is tackled below the hips and is held, the tackle is an intentional low tackle, and the tackler should be ruled off accordingly.

The question of time being a question of fact could not come before the advising committee acting as a committee of appeals according to the constitution which says, "but this rule shall not be construed as involving questions of fact, the decision of which shall rest solely with the referee."

The committee was made up as follows: F. D. Beattys, chairman, Wesleyan; R. Hodge, Princeton; S. E. Winslow, Harvard, and E. L. Richards, proxy for W. C. Camp, of Yale. Pennsylvania was not represented.