Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...improved as time went on, and during the second half were far superior to their opponents. Individually the men showed themselves to be strong and, considering that the game was their first regular one, their team-work was very good. The defence was at all times effective, as a rule keeping play well away from the goal...
...fact that every year good men are kept from competing on our teams because of low standing in college studies. There is not the slightest doubt in the mind of any sane individual but that the College office is doing its plain duty in rigorously enforcing the rule that, to take part in college athletics, undergraduates shall be required to maintain a certain standard in their curriculum work. Although Harvard men are perfectly well aware that such a rule exists and is enforced, every year there appear to be some who fail to realize its true significance until actually debarred...
...regard to the football, rules, the association advised on radical changes. Last year's football rules committee of seven men was re appointed and recommended to work for a clearer and more concise set of rules which should continue the open game and minimize the chances of fatality. The committee was also requested to publish the rule book in the spring in order to give more time for its study...
...election of Marshals was conducted under the following rule...
...advocating four downs instead of three in which to gain the necessary ten yards, there is that which should always apply to rule makers, namely, a further extension of a principle we know something about rather than a plunge into the dark. Perhaps some football Napoleon could, even with the present three downs, so vary the play of his team as to thrust it along the field for a touchdown. I believe that would be quite possible, but the Napoleon would have too many other things to do--like tackling, passing, punting and getting into interference. Hence the Napoleons...