Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...begun to degenerate into a brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...
...that occurred in every one of the games. A man was felled by a blow in the face in the Harvard-Princeton game, in the Harvard-Yale game, in the Yale-Princeton game. In the Westeyan-Pennsylvania game a man was thrown unfairly, out of bounds, by an opposing player. Then, as he was rising, but before he was on his feet, his antagonist turned, struck him in the face and knocked him down, and returned in triumph with the ball...
...dangerous, needs no argument. In the Harvard-Princeton game, two men were hurt so badly that they had to be replaced by substitutes, and in the Yale-Princeton game at least three men were forced to withdraw. Slighter injuries, causing temporary cessation of hostilities, but not compelling the player to leave the field, were common, and cut and bruised faces, black eyes, and bloody noses were frequently seen...
...four games which we attended, there were but two cases where a player was punished for brutal or unfair play. In several cases the team was punished by having a "down" given to the other side, but only twice was a man disqualified...
...other colleges to modify the rules again, in the inter-collegiate convention. He proposed that three referees should be employed, and the various duties be divided up amongst them, one especially to warn for intentional unfair play, which should immediately disqualify without permitting a substitute to take such disqualified player's place. The referees might be chosen by the convention...