Word: code
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...several committees of the club will join together to force new boxing rules to supplant the Marquis of Queensberry code which has proved inadequate for modern needs. These rules when finally adopted will be known as the International Rules. As six of the seven world championships are held by America, it is only right and proper that she should have the credit for framing and initiating the new code...
Another vital change in the code is that which discards entirely the old method of scoring. Instead of the old way, it provides a 1-2-3 method that will make such a score as 15-love only a memory. The proposed change reads as follows...
...Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter Camp, Parke H. Davis, and their associates of the Rules Committee was respected in spirit and letter by the American soldiers. They always heeded the injunction that "the football player who intentionally violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and unsportsmanlike tactics" and "brings discredit...
...necessity for reformation of the football rules has regularly arisen during the annals of the sport at intervals of approximately ten years. In 1906 the public forced a revision of the rules to eliminate the more unsavory elements. Out of this strife came an enlarged Rules Committee, an altered code, and an improved game. With the abolition of mass formation, the forward pass came into prominence, and a large number of minor improvements were added to the code...
...Jarvis Field in May, 1874, was the first intercollegiate contest under Rugby rules. It resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest, owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that day, that "under the Harvard rules the ball must be kicked over a rope extending across the entire field, while, according to McGill's plan, the ball must be kicked over...