Word: rule
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Only such students shall be eligible for University teams who shall have completed satisfactorily one year's college work. (Freshmen and all men in their first year are barred by this rule...
...recommended that the following rule be adopted: "Every player on the kicking side shall be 'on side' when the kicked ball touches the ground," but the consideration of rules to protect the man catching a punt, was left over until the next meeting...
Among the more important decisions arrived at by the committee are those relating to the adoption of a 10-yard rule, the elimination of mass play and the forward pass. The ruling affecting unnecessary roughness was made more severe and other minor changes from the rules formulated at the last meeting were adopted. The committee appointed to formulate suggestions relative to the formation of a central body of officials submitted its report, which was given out in order to encourage public discussion on the subject. No plan was made for testing the new game in the spring...
...order to prevent the players from piling up, the following rule was adopted: "The ball shall be deemed dead when any portion of the person of the runner with the ball, except his hands or feet touch the ground when in the grasp of an opponent...
...which shall assign umpires and referees to officiate at all intercollegiate football contests. Perhaps the most important suggestions to be considered are those which relate to making the game more open. Some of these were taken up at the last meeting, notably the forward pass, but the 10-yard rule, advocated by Walter Camp, and numerous other minor changes were left over for today's meeting. It is expected that final action will be taken at today's meeting and referred to the various institutions represented, but in case all the business is not completed, another meeting will of course...