Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Coach Ryan first gave a short preliminary talk to the Freshmen in the Locker Building, and then led the squad out onto the field and put them through the usual early season preliminary training. Practice yesterday consisted of starting, passing and falling on the ball...
...good beating. First was after that long advance to the Harvard goal line, where any headwork would have crowned this advance with a touchdown; second, when Reinhardt missed a forward pass while standing in such a position as to have enabled him to score had he caught the ball, and third, when three Yale men tried to fall upon a misdirected Harvard pass instead of picking up the ball. It will thus be seen what little things arose to separate Yale from a glorious conclusion of her 1919 season; they arose as much because the Elis were not poised...
...most important resolution adopted by the officials was that regarding "clipping." The resolution was as follows: "That in the opinion of the officials, cutting down from behind (that is, throwing the body laterally from behind across the legs or leg below the knee of a player not carrying the ball) shall be penalized as unnecessary roughness...
Another interpretation of the rules was made clear in regard to Rule 7, Section 2. This rule is in effect that a ball going out of bounds on the kick-off shall be a dead ball and must be kicked off again. The officials decided that if a ball crosses the goal line and then goes across the side lines extended it shall be a free ball and may be either kicked out or counted as a touch-back...
...rule which caused much discussion was Rule 9, Section 5, which reads to the effect that before the ball is snapped back by the center, only one man on the team may be moving. The controversy arose in the interpretation of the word "moving." It was finally decided that as long as both feet were on the ground the player might move his body...