Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will prevent personal contact, and will tend thereby to eradicate brutality in the line...
...will tend to prevent injuries...
...open up possibilities that are difficult for any one to forecast until they have been tried in actual play. Probably the forward pass will not only result in weakening the defence--in forcing them to play some of their line further back; but it will have a tendency to prevent men in the line from crouching, as they do at present, as it will always be necessary for a player to get quickly be necessary for a player to get quickly to any spot to which the ball may have been passed...
...numerous minor injuries and with a knowledge of the occurrence, in some previous years, of occasional epidemics of minor infections, special precautions were taken regarding asepsis this year. In the first place, an efficient sterilizing outfit was installed. A sufficient supply of clean towels was provided in order to prevent the possibility of transmission of skin infections, and pains were taken to see that the underclothing of the players was changed frequently. As a result of these precautions there was no case of an infected wound during the season nor did any case of skin infection occur. This result...
Believing that a first-class man slightly injured was inferior to a second-rate man in first-class physical condition, great pains were exercised to prevent injured men from returning to the play too soon. This apparently excessive caution of the surgeons met in some cases with bitter opposition from the players. In fact, one man, at least, stated that if it were not for the presence of a surgeon, he would be playing. The wisdom of caution, however, was shown by the fact that in but two cases were men allowed to play so soon as to have...