Word: player
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MORROW our Foot-Ball Team player New Haven. The result of the game players last year with Yale, and the triumphs at Montreal this fall, give every reason to hope that team will add another to its long list of victories. They should remember, however, that the greater the elevation the more severe the fall. Several of our best men are unable to play in this game, and the rest should carefully see to it that victory does not slip through their fingers from inadvertence, or from any too sanguine notion of a "soft thing." To underrate your opponent...
...Some of the foot-ball rules at Princeton are as follows: No player shall throw or carry the ball. No tripping shall be allowed, nor shall any player use his hands to hold or push an adversary. No player shall wear spikes or iron plates on his shoes...
...player being off-side is put on-side when the ball has been kicked by, or has touched the dress or person of any one of the opposite side, or when one of his own side has run in front of him either with the ball or having kicked it when behind...
...Until the ball is kicked off no player shall be in advance of a line parallel to the line of his goal and distant from it (to be decided by the captains...
...foul the referee shall throw the ball perpendicularly into the air to a height of at least 12 feet from the place where the foul occurred, and the ball shall not be in play until the ball has touched the ground. On continued transgression of these rules by any player, the side to which he belongs shall lose...