Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reasons for the action of the committee are given in the following article which we take from the Times...
...Prof. Norton, of the committee, says in substance that he does not desire to have the action of the committee misunderstood. The changes insisted upon were meant absolutely to do away with the objectionable features. Therefore the referee must be not only opposed to the game as played at present, but he must have absolute control of it, and the punishment must operate against the whole team, to diminish its score, if need be, or it would not be efficacious. The action of the committee in this one case is not intended to affect any future action which the committee...
...rules, is as though in sparring three blows under the belt were allowed before disqualification. The time of taking this stand was at first deemed inopportune by the committee, on account of its nearness to the end of the season, but in view of the wide discussion which the action of the committee has caused, the result may be more desirable in the end. The position of the Harvard faculty has always been peculiar. At other colleges athletics are allowed to take their own course; at Harvard physical training is recognized as an important branch of education, and the faculty...
...been stated that the recent action of the faculty in regard to the change of rules in foot-ball was largely due to outside pressure, and in this connection it is a significant fact that the two leading metropolitan dailies, the Times and the Tribune, have both taken a stand opposite to that taken by the faculty. We present below a passage clipped from an editorial in the former paper...
...willfully throwing the ball at him, or so close to him as to amount to the same thing. For years past the rules governing the calling of strikes and balls have been such as to give undue advantage to the pitcher, and also to prevent the necessary freedom of action in batting requisite in acquiring the art of placing the ball. Under the existing rule the pitcher is allowed to deliver seven balls before he can be punished for sending in unfair balls while the batsman is punished for failing to strike at the first three fair balls sent...