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...Altered to read as follows: (a) "a player shall be disquailfied for unnecessary roughness, hacking, or striking with the closed fist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of the Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association. | 5/15/1889 | See Source »

...only one of the best of out door sports, but one of the safest.' As regards the tendency to degenerate into personal combat, 'the writer's observation has led him to believe that, in nine cases out of ten, a general tendency to indulge in striking with the fist is the result of conscious inferiority.' Any one who has watched the game will fully coincide with this statement and will perfectly agree to the validity of the remark that, 'the natural development of the game into team-playing is itself a correction to any tendency to blows. College and popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Game of Foot-Ball. | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

...removed from his head while a member of one of the upper classes was in the yard. This custom was finally broken up by a young freshman named Hedge, who, when ordered to uncover by an imperious upper classman, responded to the command by a heavy blow of his fist on the nose of his superior and was supported by the President for his independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Customs at Harvard. | 2/24/1887 | See Source »

...lively combat between two stalwart waiters in Memorial caused quite a commotion at breakfast yesterday; after the shower of plates with which they opened the dispute had ceased from lack of ammunition, they grappled, and for some minutes, there was a picturesque fist fight till they were separated. Both were promptly discharged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/23/1885 | See Source »

...team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Committee's Report. | 12/4/1884 | See Source »

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