Football to be Made More Open

The National Football Rules Committee, which held its first meeting Saturday night at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, adopted a resolution in favor of making the game more open, lessening the brutality, placing the officials in a central body, and rendering an evasion of the rules unprofitable.

This resolution was adopted after the reading of suggestions offered by John C. Bell, of the University of Pennsylvania, who proposed a more open game by strengthening the centre and weakening the ends of the line. All the members agreed that brutality must be eliminated, but could not decide how to accomplish this end.

After remaining in session until after midnight the conference adjourned until Friday.