Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year if a player is involuntarily carried into the end zone--and downed there--the ball will be declared dead in his possession at the spot on the field where he caught it. The new ruling applies only to involuntary entrance into the end zone. Any player who tries to circle back through the end zone to elude tacklers is still legally liable to be downed for a safety...
Another rule change may have a slight, adverse effect on scoring. Formerly, any time a ball carrier was downed in his own end zone, the other team was credited with a two-point safety. This rule neglected cases where a defending player received a punt or intercepted a pass near his own goal line, and then was carried by his own backward momentum into the end zone to fall or be tackled before he could change direction...
Peter Meihsl, 25, is a graduate of the University of Vienna. He will study government and political economy. His countryman, Franz Stanzel, 27, has been enrolled as a special auditor in G.S.A.S. He was graduated from St. Pankraz in the American Zone...
...test Western defenses against "an invasion by superior enemy forces from the East," began in Germany this week. The green-clad "invaders," a U.S. armored force, struck from the borders of Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...
...trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...