Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these reasons the present game is infinitely more interesting to the players, to the spectators, (who can now see the progress of the play so much better) and to the coaches, who have so much more scope for strategy. The principal changes in the rules that have brought about these benefits are the ten-yard rule, the limiting of number of men behind the line, the onside kick, and the forward pass...
...yard rule is excellent to make the offense resort to the open plays; the limiting of the number of men behind the line has the same effect. Without the onside kick and forward pass, however, the first two changes would be useless, for the only open play then available would be the long kick or quarterback kick. As originator of the onside kick rule I may possibly be prejudiced; but it seems that it would be a grave mistake to go back to the rule allowing the back field men to let a ball bounce around on the ground...
...municipal government, as in football, the rule of the game should be: Watch the ball. This is the one thing that has not hitherto been done. It is the thing that is not generally contemplated when college men are urged to go into politics, but just as sure as watching the quarterback or left end will lose the football championship, so watching the mayor or comptroller or alderman will continue the evils of American municipal government. Just as in football, too, the test of the player is what he is able to do with the ball and with his team...
There seems to be a more or less clearly defined feeling that the present method of selecting assistant managers of University teams is open to criticism. An apparently open competition is usually held, but the successful candidate must, as a rule, be picked by the manager. Last year a check was placed upon him by the agreement among the managers of the major teams that the manager in question must nominate three candidates for election by the "H" men of the sport and the other captains. It is perhaps too soon to determine the actual value of this provision...
...expected that among the changes in the rules which will be proposed this year will be the lessening of the value of the goal from the field, the further restriction of the use of the forward pass, and some change in the rule relating to the duties of the umpires and the referee...