Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Play will begin at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. sharp. Contestants will please be punctual as thereby they will prevent the loss of valuable time, and also will greatly assist the managers. Either the turf or clay courts may be used. The entrance fees may be paid at Bartlett's, or to the members of the executive-committee in charge at the grounds. Balls will be provided by the Association...
...urge every student to be constantly on the alert to prevent just such accidents as the one of yesterday morning. A very little carelessness on the part of one man may bring terrible results upon a score of his fellow undergraduates. A student rooming in one of the large dormitories in the yard is absolutely at the mercy of the men around him. As the weakest link in a chain must be taken as the measure of its strength, so must the safety of a hundred students be computed on the basis of the habits of the most heedless...
...ball had to be actually touched down by a player before he could claim the ball as his. This always occasioned the roughest of play. Sometimes a player would seize the ball and then lay on his back, holding fast the ball all the time, in order to prevent his opponents from securing a touchdown. Men were often severely injured in this...
Rule 13, referring to maul in goal is struck out entirely. This will prevent the fierce fights which are made so often when the holder of the ball is tackled inside the goal line...
...point, and the offender dismissed from the field. For intentional violation of rules 16 and 27 (referring to off-side play, hacking, throttling, butting, tripping up, etc.) a player shall be disqualified and two points given to the other side." This treatment of off-side and unfair play will prevent the many tricks which are often permitted on the foot-ball field. Intentional delay of the game also gives the opponents points and the offender is sent from the field...