Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...following the customary formation work. The first quintet succeeded in downing both the second and third fives, by the former by a score of 7 to 5, and the latter 7 to 2. There were many personal fouls called during the scrimmages, mostly for charging and running with the ball. R. W. Fitts '23, at right forward, was the principal scorer for Team A, or the Whites, as they were called, and K. A. Buchanan '21 at center for the Reds showed up well. The other men on the Whites were H. B. Tyson, center; A. E. McLeish '23, left...
Last winter the football playing rules were so changed that, after a touchdown had been registered, the attacking team could bring the ball out onto the playing field and try for its goal from touchdown from any point desired...
Under this rule, based on the above reasoning, the goal from touchdown has proved rather unsatisfactory. Games have been lost through a miscue by a nervous kicker or holder of the ball, and the rest of the team has had to see their efforts at team work successful at reaching the correct goal in view--the touchdown--nullified by one individual's failure to kick a tying or winning goal. That the kicking of the goal is quite inconsistent with the team play that is the essence of football, is in no way better shown than by the action...
Another suggestion, made by P. D. Haughton '99, after this year's Harvard Yale game--that the football rules be so changed that hereafter forward passes blocked behind the line of scrimmage shall be treated as blocked kicks, the ball being declared free,--has, likewise, been meeting with no little commendation...
...idea to have blocked forward passes, when these occur back of the point where the ball is put in play stand simply as blocked kicks, is a move towards giving a greater reward to the keen defensive play of the line. As the forward passes, blocked behind the line of scrimmage, stand now, the defensive team simply causes the attacking team to lose another down without gain; and this is very small compensation for aggressive work in hurrying the passer or actually knocking down the pass, as did Kane in one notable instance in the Bowl