Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Prior to this change in the rules an effort was made to have the goal from touchdown either thrown out of the game entirely, or at least to have the play made under conditions which would bring 22 men into action instead of only two offensive players, and a few...
However, the Rules Committee in session last winter maintained that inasmuch as scoring a touchdown, earning six points, required far more football ability than two field-goals, also equivalent to six points, that the goal from touchdown should serve as the extra reward for the touchdown makers over the team...
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...
On the contrary, when a field goal is made from scrimmage, every man has his assignment to carry out, each essential to the success of the kick. And there is a movement on foot at present to make the suggestion to the Rules Committee that in the future goals from...
Such a method of earning goals from touchdown would then mean something from the standpoint of team play. This goal kicking not only would be a real bit of active football but the one point, or even two points earned in this manner would still give the earners of a...