Word: goals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most important decision of the meeting was, that if a forward pass is made from behind the offense's goal-line and strikes the ground before being touched, it is to be called a safety for the defense, regardless of whether the pass was made on the first or second down. It was also decided that the penalty for an illegal or incompleted forward pass, viz., a forward pass which strikes the ground before being touched, could not be declined by the offended side even if it was to its advantage...
...regards the ruling of the second paragraph of section 8, rule 6, it was decided that a touchdown could be made on a free kick from placement following a fair catch, if the kicking side should obtain the ball. Any kind of kick going behind the goal-line before being touched must be counted a touchback...
...game. Changes of line-up between the halves must be reported to the referee, just as during play. Several other minor points were decided upon, the two most interesting of which were that a ball crossing the cross-bar on the bound from a drop kick counts a goal as much as if it crossed on the fly; and that a man rushing the ball out from behind his own goal-line cannot be forced back behind for a safety after once having crossed the line...
...quality of the songs is concerned, perfection is still a far distant goal. Now and then a really catchy tune is evolved, but it is rare indeed that good words and music are combined. Surely Harvard has no lack of capable composers or of men able to write appropriate lines, and if a competition is started early enough, and the real musicians of the University enter into it with the right spirit, we should not lack for songs which mean something...
...game with frequent end runs, forward passes, punts, and open plays, the university team defeated Wesleyan by a score of 25 to 0. Good team work on the part of Yale was marred by frequent fumbling. In the first half Yale made two touchdowns and two goals, while Wesleyan came within 25 yards of the goal-line but lost the ball on a blocked forward pass...