Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coaching from the sidelines is prohibited because it is considered an unfair practice. The game is to be played by the players using their own muscle and their own brains...
...Beating the ball by an unfair use of a starting signal is nothing less than deliberately stealing an advantage from the other side. An honest starting signal is good football, but a starting signal which has for its purpose starting the team a fraction of a second before the ball is put in play in the hope that it will not be detected by the officials is nothing short of crookedness...
...Holding is prohibited by the rules because it does not belong in the game of football. It is unfair play and it eliminates skill. The game is to advance the ball by strategy, skill and speed, without holding your opponent...
...effects are very great--"the slowest man in the world could make a 40-yard run in every play if the rest of his team would hold their opponents long enough." And it is a very easy thing to conceal. Coaching from the side lines, beating the ball by unfair use of a starting signal, talking to opponents (which is prohibited by rules only if abusive or insulting), and arguing with officials, are in the same class; they all have an important result on the outcome of the game, and they can only be stopped by voluntary abstention. "The football...
...action of the committee, as Dean Briggs phrased it, is "highly commendable." Strictly honorable methods are frequently lost sight of, particularly among school teams. And it is with just these teams that the "Football Code" is likely to have the greatest effect. If schoolboy players learn that unfair methods are discountenanced by lovers of the game, if they are taught clean and honest tactics instead of questionable ones, there will be less abuse on the part of "outsiders," more honesty on the part of those who play, and a higher standard in the game itself...