Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Team A started with the ball in mid-field and after a series of line plays carried it across the goal line of the second team. Brickley made the touchdown. In the rush down the field, Hardwick made a 25-yard run. The second team, though given the ball on team A's 25-yard line, could gain only a few yards by rushing and failed when a drop-kick was attempted...
Yale defeated Wesleyan in a closely contested game at New Haven yesterday afternoon by the score of 10 to 3. Up until the last few minutes of play, the score was a tie, 3 to 3, when the Yale team braced and Captain Spalding carried the ball over the line for a touchdown...
...chief changes in the football rules for the season of 1912 may be outlined in a few words, although their effect on the play will be considerable. The principal alteration was the addition of an extra down. Instead of three trials in which to advance the ball the specified distance of 10 yards, four are allotted...
Another change of importance is that on the kick-out the opponents, instead of lining up on the 25-yard line of the opponents' goal, line up on the 20-yard line, and the ball must be kicked from some point behind that 20-yard line...
...restriction that the forward pass should not go over 20 yards has been removed and a forward pass of any distance is legal. The on-side kick has been cut out altogether; that is, a kicked ball striking the ground does not put the kicker's side on-side. The balance of the changes are of lesser importance...