Word: touche
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...side pressing its opponents to the goal line will almost certainly be required to make an attempt at goal as a last extremity before losing the ball. The side forced back to its own lines will still, however, be put at a great disadvantage, since the safety touch-down rule is imperative and punt-overs in such a case will be extremely difficult, and consequently hazardous. It will be interesting to notice the shifts which the different teams will adopt next fall to get out of such a dangerous position...
...number of safety touch-downs will probably be much increased this year; for it does not seem likely that the ball will remain in the middle of the field for any considerable length of time after the kick-off, now that the block-game is done away with, and manoeuvering near the goal lines of course gives one side a decided advantage. On the whole, the association is to be congratulated for their success in removing the most objectionable features in last year's games...
...Cabot, Harvard, and E. P. Morgan, Princeton. The principal subject the convention considered was doing away with the "block game." The following amendments to the rules were adopted : To Rule 5 - "No player having received the ball from one of his own side shall put it in his own touch-in-goal, under penalty of a safety touch." To Rule 7 add - "No sticky or greasy substance can be used on the person of the players" Rule 18 - "A player may throw or pass a ball in any direction except towards his opponents' goal." To Rule 33 - "If in three...
...association in college at the time of the events. The college feeling in regard to sparring is higher than that outside; what is desired is scientific sparring; we do not want a slugging match or a glove fight as they have at Yale. As in fencing a touch counts, so in sparring science ought to count, and one heavy blow should not count as much as two well directed light ones. If the judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes up from year to year and the standard keeps getting lower...
...touch of rumor makes the whole world chin, especially the New York World...