Word: player
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...That any player shall be instantly disqualified by either umpire, by referee or by head-linesman for any act of brutality, roughness or insulting talk to opponents or officials, and that a player so disqualified shall not play again in that game and that no substitute shall be permitted for five minutes of actual play...
...That a player twice disqualified in any one season shall not be permitted to play again for one year from the date of his second disqualification...
...players of the side that has possession of the ball shall not hold, block or otherwise obstruct the opponents except with the body; but the player running with the ball may ward off an opponent with the hand. ('Holding or unlawful obstruction' includes (a) grappling the opponent with the hands, (b) placing the hands upon an opponent to push him away from the play, (c) locking legs with an opponent, (d) circling in any degree any part of an opponent with the arm, (e) any use of the arms to lift an opponent in blocking, and (f) any obstruction...
...That any interference with the player behind the line of scrimmage after he has kicked the ball shall be punished with immediate disqualification...
...That in a scrimmage the holder of the ball shall place it flat upon the ground and put it in play with its long axis at right angles to the line of scrimmage, and that until the ball is put in play no part of any player, except of the man who puts the ball in play, shall be ahead of the point of the ball nearer his own goal...