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...forward pass rule was adopted merely to restrict the indiscriminate use of the pass. According to the new ruling, a team shall be penalized five yards for failure to complete a second or third pass in any series of four downs before a first down is made. In other words, no penalty shall be attached to an incomplete pass, provided that it is the first attempt before a first down is made. But if the team in possession of the ball is guilty of a second incompleted pass, it shall be penalized five yards. Another penalty of the same number...
...Because France is afraid that England and the U. S. would try to restrict the conference to considering only land armaments, forcing France to reduce hers, and then hold another naval conference at Washington, where they could apportion the fleets of the world to suit themselves...
...Harvard Athletic Committee said in the report submitted a few weeks ago to the President and Fellows: 'Your committee would like to restrict all coaching for every intercollegiate sport to the graduates of the University...
...attitude of the Committee was that a graduate should be appointed coach only if he was better than anyone else that could be secured. If we can find a coach who is better than any graduate, we would take him. The report says that the Committee would 'like' to restrict all coaches to graduates, but should the Committee be able to find a non-graduate who was eminently suited to the job, it would have to forego its liking and secure the better...
...universities and colleges of this fair land are crying out against the avalanche of students that press for entrance. Their finances and facilities, they say, are inadequate to care for the mob; they are forced, however reluctantly, to restrict their numbers, put up the bars turn their backs on the democracy that was one of their cherished ideals in the dear dead days, etc., etc. But strangely enough they do nothing to modify the great annual advertising campaign that brings the candidates swarming about their ivied portals. We refer of course, to the intercollegiate football season...