Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...referee and umpire will be provided with whistles, so that they may stop the play more promptly when a foul has been made, or, when for any other reason, to be determined according to the rules, the referee or umpire is called upon to interfere...
...elected president of the association. The championship for 1888 was formally awarded to Yale without protest. A schedule of games for the coming season were drawn up and will be announced later. The playing rules of the National League were adopted with three exceptions. The old rule on fouls is to be retained, The batter being out when a foul is caught on the fly: a batsman hit by a pitched hall is not to be allowed his base, and the tenth man clause is struck out. The session was very short and was satisfactory and harmonious in every respect...
Several rules were discussed, particularly the one giving the referee power to disqualify players for foul tackling or roughness. The term "unnecessary roughness" was interpreted as including jumping on a prostrate player with the knees. The cases of Cowan and Wurtemburg in the Yale-Princeton game were brought up and their disqualification was declared unnecessary as they did not break the rule so interpreted...
...field favored by a light wind. Yale used the V trick but gained only four yards, kicked. Harvard getting the ball forced it up the field by rushes of Newell, Wadsworth and Lee to Yale's five-yard line when it went to Yale on a foul. Yale made a short punt and Wadsworth by a sharp run caught the ball on the twenty-yard line, when it again went to Yale on four downs. Sharp work by Cranston and Curtis forced Yale back and she was again compelled to punt after three downs. Lee got the ball and carried...
...ball close to Princeton's line, where Ames, attempting to rush, was downed by Stagg. Ames, however, sent it well into the centre of the field by a long punt. Yale, by short rushes, forced the ball to Princeton's twenty-five-yard line. Here Cowan was disqualified for foul tackling and Riggs took his place. Princeton regained some lost ground, but the ball, going to Yale on a foul, was forced slowly towards Princeton's goal and was suddenly passed to Bull, who kicked another goal from the field. Score Yale, 10; Princeton...