Word: absecon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of many a football game but it will happen no more. The National Football Rules Committee, meeting in wintry seclusion at Absecon, N. J., last week, voted a new provision which makes a fumbled ball recovered by the defensive side "dead" at the point of recovery. The new rule "will not apply in case of forward passing, nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore." The committee justified its change with the explanation that a fumble is the error of but one player, not the team...
Leaving Asheville, the Candidate and his party moved up to Absecon, N. J., for more golf, more rest, less public politics...