Word: player
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...causing misplays among the visitors. Yet such things are tolerated by great institutions of learning and of truth, and thus far no official seems able to stop them. We like to think these evils less conspicuous at Harvard than at other colleges, and we still believe that a Harvard player would not trip an opponent or would be universally condemned if he did; but we are by no means free from ill-mannered talk on the field or from ungenerous conduct among the undergraduate spectators. Rules, though powerless to change the spirit of the players, might close their mouths...
...greater value than intellectual achievement. Almost every undergraduate would be proud to be told that he was destined in after life to write a remarkable history, or to make a notable scientific discovery and would be shocked to hear that he was to be the best professional baseball player in the world; yet he often submits willingly to drudgery that would tend to prepare him for the latter, though recoiling from study that would fit him for intellectual work. This shows a disproportion between immediate ambition and relative permanent values, even as they stand in the mind of the undergraduate...
...Removal of the requirement that the player who receives the ball from the snap-back run five yards to either side before advancing...
...Forward pass to be allowed across the line of scrimmage, as at present (five-yard limitation) and to be received only by the men on the ends of the rush line and the backs. Thus with seven men always on the rush line one less player is eligible to receive the pass than heretofore...
...player receiving the forward pass to be given some sort of protection...