Word: snappers
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...center in both the "big games" of last fall, has been moved into a guard position flanking Callahan, who is thus left without a first-rate substitute. Coach George Funk '15, in charge of the centers, has been forced to requisition backfield members and train them to the snapper-back position. As yet, Opie, whose running was chiefly responsible for his Freshman team's victory over Yale in 1917, is the only man to give much promise. He weighs 165, and is very aggressive. At present Speers, scrub guard last year, and one of the weight-men of the track...
...rule that escaped general observation was that the snapper back will be under the same rules as the other players with reference to being offside. Section 1 of rule 29 was amended by adding section 4 of rule...
...player first receiving the ball from the snapper-back may run with the ball across the line of scrimmage at any point...
...first change noted is in the diagram of the field. The longitudinal lines are now omitted, because, as the first man who receives the ball from the snapper-back may cross the line of scrimmage at any point and as the forward pass may be thrown over the line at any point, these longitudinal marks are no longer necessary. The field will once more resemble a "gridiron...
...within one foot of this line, or if he has one foot and the opposite hand up to or within one foot of it. He must also stand with both feet outside the outside player next to him; but the two men standing on either side of the snapper-back may lock legs with the snapper-back. "Outside" means with both feet outside the man next...