Word: interred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...COLLEGE, GENTLEMEN :-On the 22 of Nov., 1883, the Committee on Athletics, believing that the game of foot ball had begun to degenerate into a brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the 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...
Changes in the rules were made immediately, and they were subsequently adopted by the Inter-collegiate Association. In June of the present year the Committee said to the Captain of the Harvard team for 1884, that the eleven would be allowed to play during the following season, on the understanding that the games should be regarded as a test whether or not the changes of rules had resulted in substantial change of the character of the game...
...beginning of this season your Committee decided to attend the games of the Inter-collegiate Series and to observe them carefully in order to learn the precise nature of the game as played by college teams under the revised rules. We have attended four games, those of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton series, and one between Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania played in New York on the morning of Thanksgiving day for the third place among the college teams...
...influences. Foot ball, as it has come to be played, first by Yale, then in self defence by Princeton and other colleges, and to a slight extent even by Harvard, is needlessly dangerous, is brutal and demoralizing. Harvard students, must not be allowed to play such a game; therefore inter-collegiate foot ball must cease for us, at least for the present. But it is to be hoped that a careful consideration and revision of the rules and of the game during the winter by a committee of under-graduates, graduates, and the Athletic Committee, will result in a purer...
...faculty had given a year's opportunity for improvement in this respect; they object to this condition of play; for men who will not play unfairly cannot win, at present. Mr. Curtis, '83, urged delay, that Harvard might influence the other colleges to modify the rules again, in the inter-collegiate convention. He proposed that three referees should be employed, and the various duties be divided up amongst them, one especially to warn for intentional unfair play, which should immediately disqualify without permitting a substitute to take such disqualified player's place. The referees might be chosen by the convention...