Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...receive the pass to the quarterback, halfbacks, and fullback, and eliminate the five-yard boundary on each side of centre, which is not only a constant annoyance to the officials, but makes a decision only an arbitrary expression of opinion, and not of fact. It might be well to allow two passes in each play, the same four men only being eligible to receive it. This would open up the play still more, but still make the passes individual, and a matter of personal skill in position, passing, and catching; also, by adding to the possibilities of the offense, would...
...second method which might be adopted is to allow the defense to make a fair catch just as in the case of a kicked ball, and to punish interference with the opportunity for a fair catch in the same way. This would eliminate all slow high passes, but would not affect the low quick ones, which are the ones to encourage as being those which take skill and head-work...
...organize the football team in November and the baseball team for Commencement week? In either case the interest of the participants will be decreased one hundred-fold, and of that there can be but one result--intercollegiate athletics will die out. We feel confident that no undergraduate will allow this without a bitter protest...
...State P. L. Butler '08 closed the debate for the affirmative by showing that the Separation Act was not only fair to the Church, but also distinctly met the need outlined in the first speech. Henceforth the State would interfere with the Church only in temporal matters, and allow it absolute freedom in spiritual concerns...
...should be possible to insure the delivery to every man on the list of a notification of the fact. After waiting a reasonable time and verifying all the evidence, the names of those who can offer no satisfactory explanation should then be published. The number of men who intentionally allow their tickets to fall into speculators' hands is comparatively small, but there are every year very flagrant cases. Undergraduate and graduate opinion frowns upon this form of making capital out of connection with the University, but as long as the evidence obtained is used only to prevent past offenders from...