Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...preserve a straight scrimmage line the following rule was adopted: "A player shall be considered to be on the line of scrimmage, if he has his head, foot or hand up to, or within one foot of, an imaginary line drawn through the forward part of the ball and parallel to the goal line. He must also be outside the player nearest him and between him and the snapper-back. 'Outside' means both feet outside of the outside foot of this man." Another rule was passed ordering the referee to blow his whistle as soon as the forward progress...
...Camp of Yale, Professor Fine of Princeton, Professor Dennis of Cornell, and J. C. Bell of the University of Pennsylvania, will hold a meeting in Philadelphia this afternoon to discuss the adoption of new football regulations for next year. The most important change proposed is the legalizing of the forward pass. This change, it is said, has been advocated by Mr. Wrenn and Mr. Dashiell in response to the stand taken by President Eliot for a more open style of play. The other members of the Committee, except Mr. Stagg, have vigorously opposed the new plan, holding that the present...
...already established policy whereby training for the industrial and engineering professions is recognized as a necessary and permanent function of the University. A person entering Harvard University as a student in applied science, shortly before the large benefits of the McKay bequest begin to accrue, might look forward to enjoying those benefits before his graduation, with the positive assurance that if any scheme of co-operation or alliance were agreed upon between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that scheme would be for the enlargement and improvement of his opportunities, and would neither separate him from Harvard University...
...help the man who comes to college with the intention of working, and should not be adapted merely to the man whose only aim is to spend his four years of college life as enjoyably as possible. The affirmative requires much more convincing proof than the negative has brought forward, to accept the statement that because the elective system has failed at Harvard it will necessarily fall in all other colleges
...Yale team is made up almost entirely of experienced men. Hyatt, centre, has played on the team for three years, and Barber, left forward, and Carter, right guard, were both on last year's team. Kinney, right forward, played on Andover last year, and Freshman team. The teamwork and passing are the best features of Yale's play...