Word: mauling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rule 13, referring to maul in goal is struck out entirely. This will prevent the fierce fights which are made so often when the holder of the ball is tackled inside the goal line...
Rule 33, referring to maul in goal is omitted...
Rule 13.-All rules referring to maul in goal shall be struck...
...Harvard's tackling, too, which in the first half had been fair, became worse, owing, perhaps, to the more blown condition of the men. Richards got the ball some distance up the field. and making another of his beautiful rushes crossed the line and made a touchdown after a maul in goal. Terry tried for the goal and succeeded. Score...
...game. Among the ranks of the "Old Etonians," and of other Clubs similarly constituted, may be seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell (who has indeed branded the game as "fit only for savages...