Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Besides, the rules should not place off-side play on a par with such cowardly and unmanly offenses as tripping, throttling, etc., by prescribing the same punishment for both. Under the present code the penalties in some instances are not commensurate with the offenses. Our idea is to completely overhaul and readjust the penal code of the game so that degrees in offenses will be recognized. For anything which savors of cowardice or brutality, and which at times endangers life or limb, let the rules give the referee discretionary power to disqualify a player without warning, But for breaches...
...hundred yards the men were placed thus : Billings, '85, scratch; Foote, '86, 2 yds; Brandt, '85, 4 yds; F. W. White, '85, 5 yds; J. G. Mumford, '85, 9 yds. Mumford did not run. When the pistol went off, Billings, who got a beautiful start, began to overhaul his men rapidly and won a splendid race by only a few feet over Foote, in 11 sec., with White a good third...