Word: behind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spectators, (who can now see the progress of the play so much better) and to the coaches, who have so much more scope for strategy. The principal changes in the rules that have brought about these benefits are the ten-yard rule, the limiting of number of men behind the line, the onside kick, and the forward pass...
...yard rule is excellent to make the offense resort to the open plays; the limiting of the number of men behind the line has the same effect. Without the onside kick and forward pass, however, the first two changes would be useless, for the only open play then available would be the long kick or quarterback kick. As originator of the onside kick rule I may possibly be prejudiced; but it seems that it would be a grave mistake to go back to the rule allowing the back field men to let a ball bounce around on the ground...
Class spirit in Cambridge is not any too high. But it seems hardly possible that the Junior class is so far behind the three preceeding classes, that they cannot make the most important event of their Junior year, and the only social event which the class as a whole participates in, as much of a success as 1906, 1907, and 1908 have done. J. S. WHITNEY...
...second half Brush made a pretty try for a goal which Washburn stopped; but Osborne scored on the pass from behind the goal. Princeton now forced the play, but failed to score through inaccurate shooting, while the University team made three more goals...
...attraction offered by municipal research is due to the fact that it seems to promise a realization of the great American dream that usually grows dimmer and dimmer after college walls are left behind, viz: "Self-government for the benefit of all the governed." This dream will never come true simply because college men go into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students...