"Think how it would handicap the tall player. It seems like legislation for the 5ft. 6in. man. Very often, too, a wing player has got to prevent. the ball from going out of play by using his iliad. Then you see a player "deliberately hook a ball so that he can get it with his head— it is one of the cleverest ways of defeating an opponent.
"Players would have to learn the game over again, and there is no time for that he added.
The manager of Charlton Athletic, Mr. James Seed, has been sufficiently impressed by Mr. Carruthers' suggestion that he has decided to prohibit heading during a practice game. "It ought to be valuable from a positional point of view," he said. "The tendency to bang the ball into the air down the middle is not good for smooth constructive football There is a lot of skill in heading, but I agree that if it encourages teams to keep the ball down, your proposal will be for the good of the Other comments upon the proposal are informative:
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