Word: fouled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...World thinks that the Harvard-Yale game "showed that the rules are not sufficiently strict in regard to the penalties for foul tackling. For this offense the penalty should be the removal of the player guilty of it from the field during the half-time in which it was committed. In regard to the block game, the only rule likely to put a stop to that is to make so many safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown. Four touchdowns are equal to a goal, and it would be well to make four safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown...
There was still some underhanded work that was not fully understood until after the game. Constantly the Yale snapper-back and other of the rushers would make fouls by which advantage would be gained. The referee would almost as constantly decide that he could grant no foul, his statement generally being that he had seen none. Understand, no charge is made against Mr. Cabot, except that at times he seemed rattled and inefficient. His mistakes were chiefly due to the methods employed by Yale...
Here then we come to what is distinctively the Yale game. When Yale had the ball down, the captain is accustomed to give a preconcerted signal which indicates what is to be done with the ball. If a Yale play is to be made which includes a foul, the Yale umpire calls the attention of the referee to another part of the field. The moment this is effected the play is started, the foul made, the advantage gained and the referee has seen nothing. These signals were all pre-arranged, and we are told and indeed saw that "they worked...
...main essentials to success under the existing code of Inter-collegiate Association rules. And, by the way, it is worthy of note that the amendments made at the last convention of the association, which were intended to do away with the "block game" and to put a stop to foul play in tackling men either before or after they have the ball, have entirely failed in their object. Princeton played the block game successfully in the Harvard match of Nov. 18, and Yale indulged in foul tackling at the match of the 25th, the rules in both instances failing...
...winning the foot-ball championship for another year. If, however, the conduct of her team and the sentiment of her press can be taken as a criterion, Yale cares little for the respect and, consequently, still less for the congratulations of defeated rivals. When a team plays a foul, unfair game deliberately and intentionally, we consider that we have just cause for complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only to praise in vainglorious terms the conduct of its players, but also to speak of "defeating...