Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rule 16-Add section (b)-"Time shall not be called for the end of a three-quarter until the ball is dead, and in case of a try-at-goal from a touchdown, the try shall be allowed. Time shall be taken out while the ball is being brought out either for a try, kickout or kick...
Rule 4 provides that a touchdown can be made by carrying or kicking the ball "in goal" or "touch in goal...
...change has been made which will allow a man, who has made a touchdown just as time expires, a try at goal...
Rule 16 reads: "Time will be taken out from the moment a touchdown is made until the ball is put in play again in the center of the field. In case the goal is missed, then time is resumed immediately after the failure. The man who holds the ball during the try for goal may be off-side...
...Harding gained ten yards. Lee, Dennison and Wadsworth carried the ball to the eight-yard line where it went to Yale on four downs. Yale kicked and Dennison getting the ball by a good run carried it to the five-yard line and Newell made a touchdown five minutes after play was called. No goal. At this point Crosby took McClung's place. Newell stopped Hefflefinger's rush from the twenty-five-yard line and Yale kicked. Lee caught the ball on the thirty-yard line and rushes by Newell and Lee gained fifteen yards. Here Newell was hurt...