Word: play
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee recently held a meeting with the idea of clearing up several points in the code of rules drawn up last year. No radical changes have been made in the methods of play, but the rules as they now read can not be misunderstood. Rule 7 has been changed to read as follows...
...Should the ball strike an official it is not regarded as dead, but play continues exactly as if the ball had not touched...
Rule 28, covering penalties for fouls and offside play, has been considerably altered. Section E has been made to read as follows...
Section F of the same rule, which restricts starting before the ball is put in play, has been made unmistakably clear as follows...
...case of unlawful starting before the ball is put in play for a scrimmage (Rule 18 a), provided there is no infraction of Rule 10, the ball shall be brought back and put in play again. If this occurs again in the same down the ball shall be given to the opponents. If again during the game that side infringes the rule bearing on this act, the ball shall be immediately given to the opponents. The same ruling shall be made in cases of infraction of Rule...