To Make Good Foot-Ball Rules.

As will be seen from the following letter from Mr. Walter Camp, the well-known Yale athlete and foot ball expert, some important changes are about to be made in the rules which have hitherto governed the great matches between Yale, Harvard and Princeton.

The faculties of those colleges have taken a hand in the consultations, which have resulted in a general request that Mr. Camp should devise some laws that would prevent those unseemly quarrels concerning time, place and referees, which have marred former contests.

NO. 16 AND 18 PARK PLACE,NEW YORK, June 12,TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR - SIR: Inclosed was presented by me, at the request of the committee, to the committee on constitution last night at the Hoffman House, and substantially adopted by them. They will report it to the association.

WALTER CAMP.At a meeting held on Saturday night at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the following gentlemen were present: Professors Byerly and Sargent, Messrs. McCook, Clark, Fisk, Sexton and Holden, from Harvard; Professors Johnson and Rockwood and Mr. Savage from Princeton; Professor Richards, Messrs. Adoo, Richards and Beecher from Yale; Mr. Posey from the University of Pennsylvania; Mr. Beattys from Wesleyan.

It was deemed to be of the most vital importance to the welfare of foot-ball and of your association that the following amendments should be embodied in the constitution of the association:

1. There shall be an advisory graduate committee on rules and appeals, consisting of two Harvard graduates, two Princeton graduates, two Yale graduates, one Wesleyan graduate, one graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the several acting captains of the foot-ball teams of each year, and one graduate of any college in the association, to be elected by the said captains as their special advocate and advisor, elected for the term of one year only. The other graduate members hall be elected during commencement week by the members and ex-members of the respective university teams, absentees being allowed to vote by proxy. (Or, as suggested by a minority of those present: "The other graduate members shall be elected by the several college associations at regular meetings, together with such graduates as may be present at said meetings.") These graduates shall serve for the term of two years from election, except that the graduates who are to act from date until June, 1888 (the time of the first regular election), shall be immediately chosen by the foot-ball delegates of this year.

2. This advisory committee shall meet and propose the rules, or changes in the same, on the first Saturday in March in each year, and shall submit the said proposed rules or changes to the secretary of the intercollegiate association on or before the first Saturday in April, to be forth with transmitted by him to the respective college associations before the spring meeting of the intercollegiate associations, to occur on the first Saturday in May. At that meeting the proposed rules or changes shall be acted upon and be returned by the intercollegiate association with its approval or disapproval to the advisory committee at its summer meeting, to occur on the first Saturday in June. Those rules or changes approved shall forth with take effect; those disapproved shall go over for consideration until the following spring, unless they shall receive eleven votes in the advisory committee, in which case they shall immediately take effect. The advisory committee shall have, through Mr. Walter C. Camp, full supervision of editing and printing the rules for each year, to be ready for distribution by September 1 in each year.

3. Each of the fourteen members of the advisory committee shall have a full vote, and any one may vote and act by representative with a written proxy. Ten members of its committee shall constitute a quorum.

4. At the written request of any two members of the advisory committee, or delegates of the intercollegiate association, the secretary of the committee shall convene a meeting both of the advisory committee and of the intercollegiate association, but the same shall be only on five days written notice to the various members and delegates, which notice must contain a statement of the object of the said meetings. The meetings of the present year shall be governed by this section.

5. There shall be two graduate referees, one for the ball and one for the players. The referees for the players shall be nominated and elected by the advisory committee, who shall also assign the referee for each championship game. The referee for the ball shall be chosen by the two captains of the opposing teams in each game, except in case of disagreement, the choice shall be referred to the advisory committee, whose decision shall be final. All referees shall be permanently elected and assigned on or before September 15 in each year, and proper provision shall be made in case of inability of referee to serve in case of accident, sickness or other like cause.

6. The advisory committee shall, at its first meeting, elect five of its own members to act as a committee of appeals, which shall contain at least one representative each from Harvard, Princeton and Yale. The said committee of appeals shall hold its regular annual session on the first Saturday of December of each year, at which time it shall hear and finally determine any appeal, which must be in writing, from a decision or determination which, substantially, affects the interpretation or construction of any provision of the constitution, or of the rules of the association during the year preceding. But the section shall not be construed as affecting any question of fact, the determination of which rests in the discretion of a referee.

7. The final game of each year shall be played between the two leading teams of the year preceding, and shall be played on the last day of the football season, at or near New York City.

This document is signed by Eugene L. Richards, Jr., and Lawrence E. Sexton, for the committee. - N. Y. Star.