Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side having the ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining in contact while lining-out, would enable the ball to be passed more scientifically, and allow greater freedom in kicking. Where the ball is carried back to any five-yard line compensation is made for loss of ground to the side so carrying it back...
...publication in existence, the "Harvard Lampoon," was first issued in the spring of 1876. At first the contributions were confined to the pen and pencil of undergraduates, but the next year its scope was enlarged and contributions were received from graduates. It has since gone back to its original plan...
...Princeton papers, the Princetonian and Nassau Literary Magazine, are crying for some plan of student self-government like that in vogue at Amherst and Bowdoin...
...does not seem to me that the lately suggested plan of counting points for the other eleven, if a man makes a "foul" or "off-side" play is a good one. It would make men want their opponents to play "off-side," and so would induce them to irritate their opponents into unfair plays by which their own side would score. I think that anyone will admit that the present rules would be strict enough, if it were possible for the referee to watch every man, and see every "foul" and "off-side" play. It seems to me that...
...idea in reviving the practice this year is to benefit unattached workers in the gymnasium as well as the regular university teams. The latter will keep on in the old way, exercising by themselves under their own captains as formerly. The only advantage they will gain from the new plan will be by suggestions from Mr. Lathrop as to some of the movements and exercises which will do them the most good in their particular sport. The Mott Haven teams will also take more systematic work this winter, and as has been stated before, will probably be divided up into...