Word: requests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...National Football Rules Committee yesterday notified Coach Reid that its meeting would be postponed one week. This action was taken at the request of the committee appointed by the Harvard Graduates' Athletic-Association, which desires more time to formulate proposals in regard to changes in football rules. The postponement requested by the Harvard Committee was for two week, and yesterday Coach Reid again telegraphed P. J. Dashiel, chairman of the National Committee, in the hope that the meeting might be delayed an additional week. No answer to this telegram his yet been received...
...property of the trustees, will be published, and circulated in the United States as widely as the fund at the disposal of the trustees will permit. The prizes will be paid immediately upon the announcement of the award of the judges. Essays, not awarded prizes, will be returned upon request with postage enclosed...
...therefore respectfully request your Association, which represents the Alumni of the University, immediately to appoint a Committee whose duty it shall be to make a careful investigation of the subject, and to report such thorough-going alterations in the game as will remove the unfair advantage now obtained from violation of the rules, will put a higher premium on skill, make mere weight and strength of less value, and will produce a more scientific and interesting sport. Very truly yours, W.T. REID...
...first lecture of Professor F. G. Peabody, who, at the request of the Emperor is lecturing in Germany in exchange for Professor Ostwald, will be given at Berlin on October 30. The date has been postponed in order that the Emperor may himself be present. The subject of the lecture is, "American Reciprocity." The other lectures have not yet been announced...
...need not always be the same person. No persons other than the players, officials, the representative mentioned above, or an incoming substitute shall at any time come upon the field of play." The last rule passed was as follows: "The proper officials may give the approximate time at the request of either captain at any time during the game. The captain, however, may not ask this more than three times within the last five minutes of play...