Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Melville E. Webb Jr., foremost Boston Sporting Editor, has the following to say in commendation of the scheme.
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...
For some years there has been a feeling that the forward pass, its development nursed along as it has been by so many rules regarding incompletion and interference of the receiver by opponents, has certainly been the most favored phase of the game of football.
There appears to be no question of Mr. Haughton's suggestion being taken before the Rules Committee this winter. The opinion expressed by the former University coach in public print has evoked a very generally favorable attitude amongst other college coaches and football officials, who know whereof they speak.
The 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...