Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Whereas, A majority of the Committee on Athletics of the Board of Overseers have signed a report requesting the Faculty to prohibit undergraduates from taking part in intercollegiate athletics, and the Board of Overseers have recommended that such contests should not be allowed to take place outside of New England...
...proposed rules as submitted by the Advisory Committee last March were discussed and passed with a few changes. The recommendation to prohibit the snapper-back from running with the ball until it has touched a third man was voted down and thus the rule in regard to the centre rush putting the ball in play remains the same as it was last year. It was also decided that "No player can lay his hands upon or INTERFERE with, by use of hands or ARMS, an oppnent, unless he has the ball...
...action upon the majority and minority reports made by the Committee. Their action seems to us in the highest degree narrow-minded, and marks a strong check to the liberal tendency which should prevail in a great university like Harvard. Their recommendation amounts, in substance, to simply this: To prohibit all freshman intercollegiate contests in baseball, football, rowing and lacrosse; to allow none but University teams to engage in intercollegiate contests, and those only with Yale and minor New England college, thus barring out Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and others; and to prohibit the nine, football, lacrosse team...
Voted, That the faculty be requested to prohibit any undergraduate from taking part in any athletic contests with the students of any other college or with any organization not belonging to the university during the college year...
Rule 35, in regard to interference, to prohibit a player who is off-side to use his hands and arms in warding...