Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to lessen the excessive notoriety and bring the game within the proper limits of a college sport, they recommend (1) That all games be played upon the home grounds of the competitors; (2) That the sale of tickets be limited to graduates and undergraduates for themselves and their guests; (3) That all efforts on the part of the press to give undue publicity to the game throughout the season be discouraged...
...matter of training they feel that much has been accomplished by the adoption of Mr. Lathrop's ideas, and they hope to effect still further reforms by shortening the period of hard football work and by providing for a more gradual introduction to the active work. They recommend also the abandonment of the summer practice...
...advisers add that the adoption of the foregoing recommendations will have a marked effect in reducing expenditures and receipts. They recommend also a reduction in the price of tickets to the games...
...practice, and were caused by too strenuous play, before the men were sufficiently hardened, and that the changes in training already mentioned, with others in contemplation, can hardly fail to prevent a repetition of the last season's experience. In order further to diminish the liability of injuries they recommend several novel and radical changes in the rules relating to (a) a fair catch, (b) low tackling, (c) disqualification, (d) reduction of time for resumption of play...
...with any other college." We must allow that this solution is in theory possessed of great simplicity, - a simplicity very similar to that offered us by the Faculty in their proposed remedy for the evils of intercollegiate football. But a solution must have more than its mere simplicity to recommend it. It is an easy thing to suggest the abolishment of intercollegiate contests and no one can doubt that with the end of them would come the end of their abuses. Intercollegiate athletics have, however, far too much in their favor to be thus summarily abolished. That the Faculty...