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...proposed rules as submitted by the Advisory Committee last March were discussed and passed with a few changes. The recommendation to prohibit the snapper-back from running with the ball until it has touched a third man was voted down and thus the rule in regard to the centre rush putting the ball in play remains the same as it was last year. It was also decided that "No player can lay his hands upon or INTERFERE with, by use of hands or ARMS, an oppnent, unless he has the ball...
...Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgving Day, was perfectly proper and in accordance with the rules of the game. The point made by Harvard was that Corbin had picked up the ball and rushed with it before another man had touched it, thereby breaking rule 29, which says that the snapper back or the man opposite him shall not pick out the ball with the hand until it has touched a third man. The committee voted 3 to 1 that a scrimmage ends the instant the ball is properly put in play, and that the ball is so put in play...
...seems to be as follows: That the field be marked off with lines parallel to the goal line five yards apart; that in all cases of lining out the ball be carried to the five-yard line next nearer the goal of the side having the ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining in contact while...
There was still some underhanded work that was not fully understood until after the game. Constantly the Yale snapper-back and other of the rushers would make fouls by which advantage would be gained. The referee would almost as constantly decide that he could grant no foul, his statement generally being that he had seen none. Understand, no charge is made against Mr. Cabot, except that at times he seemed rattled and inefficient. His mistakes were chiefly due to the methods employed by Yale...