Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...warnings disqualfy instead of three, and tackling in "fair" invariably brings a warning. In punting out from a touchdown the kicker is allowed six feet on the goal line. Mr. Peace endeavored to bring Princeton's claim of a drawn game with Harvard into the convention, but the motion to introduce it was lost...
...meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes was held recently in New York to discuss a proposed change in the rules of the association. The New York, Manhattan, Staten Island, Williamsburg, American, Scottish-American, Adelphi, and Elizabeth Athletic clubs were represented. A motion was made that the rules be amended so that members of the association be permitted to enter contests in which professional events are included, provided that no professionals be entered in the particular contests in which the members of the association compete. The motion was discussed very spiritedly, and when put to vote was carried, representatives...
...Upon this motion, the gentleman in the chair (Judge Hoar) will rise and say: 'It gives me uncommon pleasure to listen to the remarks and the motion of my friend on the left. The State, the college and the community owe him a debt of gratitude. It gives me pleasure to listen to the motion and the remarks, and I trust the proposition will meet with general approval...
...time. The men are heavy, stocky and muscular, but somewhat stiff and awkward in their movements. The first eight are now rowing in the following order: Bow, Smith; 2, Lincoln; 3, Foote; 4 Delafield; 5, Ayer; 6, Borland (capt.); 7, Barnes; stroke. Harris. Stroke has an easy, regular motion, but might get a longer reach with advantage. Seven's time is rather poor and he is apt to swing back rather too far. Four and five bend their arms too soon and shoot their hands up instead of straight out, as they ought. Three is very...
...Cabot, Harvard; Messrs. Peace and Morgan, Princeton; Messrs. Morgan and Fisburn, Columbia. The games with Yale were settled upon as follows: Yale vs. Columbia, Nov. 18, at New Haven; Harvard vs. Yale. Nov. 22, at Cambridge; Princeton vs. Yale, Thanksgiving day at Polo Grounds. Princeton tried to push a motion through the convention to restrict the number of rushers in a scrimmage to six of each team, and not to allow the half-backs to come nearer the rusher-line than ten yards, when the ball was to be snapped back. The rules were not materially tampered with, the changing...