Word: player
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tells of the virtues of association football, the skill and agility required on the part of the individual plays, the team enjoyment a player gets from a game and above all the tremendous possibility it offers for general participation. Any healthy man can play soccer. It makes no difference if he stand four feet six, or six feet four, whether he weighs 125 pounds or 225 pounds. There are no signals for him to buy, no blackboard talks from coaches, pope of the hundred and one phases of training that make American football a business father than a sport...
...exercise regularly, from now until the end of the season, with chest-weights, Indian clubs, and dumb-bells. Men will be on hand in the Cage to see that no one shirks. These exercises are required to develop alertness and decision which are so necessary in a dependable baseball player. A man who is irregular in, or indifferent to attendance, will be dropped. Regular attendance will mean regular coaching and will bring the team to a uniform standard, so that the players will get together, and have that invaluable asset, team-play...
...prescribed, and by the coaching itself. For the second, a set of inviolable rules will be printed and given to every man taken to the training table; if anyone breaks one of these rules, he will be immediately dropped from the squad, regardless of how good a natural ball player he may be. The reason for such a dismissal will be published, so that no one can say that he has been treated unfairly. The third, mental training, lies with each candidate; he must have such a sense of duty to the College, the team, and Dr. Sexton, that...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee yesterday, several minor changes in the rules were decided upon. Only two of these will have a direct influence upon the game, the others being mainly with regard to duties of officials. These are: (1) A player turning to catch a forward pass must not be tackled until he has caught the ball; (2) if the ball, while in play, hits an official, it shall not be declared dead, but play shall continue...
...first and second, and between the third and fourth periods, shall be two minutes instead of three; (2) teams may, by agreement, transfer the supervision of offside play from the umpire to the head linesman, in any case, the linesman shall report offences to the umpire; (3) throwing a player to the ground after the ball has been declared dead, is unnecessary roughness; (4) three men shall be allowed to walk along each side-line, instead of five as heretofore; (5) penalties for incomplete forward passes shall be enforced from the point of the down, not that from which...