Word: linings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game with Institute of Technology was not played yesterday on account of the rain. As has been announced a game with Yale has been arranged at New Haven on Saturday. The Yale team has played the Canadian game for three years. The line-up of the team will probably be the same as in the Brown game...
...allowing seven instead of five to play on the team, and of demanding a greater amount of team work. Four men, called forwards, rush the ball toward the opposite goal in accordance with the rule to keep on side and to make no forward passes. They can be in line or move one behind the other as the Brown team did in the game which they won on Wednesday. The coverpoint and point correspond to halfbacks and there is goal tender as in the other game...
...line-up yesterday was as follows...
...line of mammalian descent...
There is no requirement for seven men in the line, but it is provided that if two linesmen are drawn back of the line they shall be outside of the line of scrimmage. Another safeguard against roughness is that imposing a distance penalty for laying hands on opponents before the ball is put into play. An important alteration also is that permitting to the side scored on the choice of kickoff. Other changes suggested are in defining the safety, allowing fifteen yards instead of ten on the kick-out after a kick for goal on the first down, permitting only...