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...When the ball passes out of bounds the player first touching it shall advance to the point where the ball went out and throw it in at right angles to the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL RULES. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...kick-offs, the winners of the toss shall have the choice of side or kick-off. The ball must be fairly kicked, not babied, from a point - (to be decided by the captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL RULES. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...ball cannot be taken from off the ground except for a kick, and it must be kicked from the point where it was taken from the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL RULES. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...were much entertained by the quaint costumes and buildings of this fine old city. In the afternoon they went to McGill College, where they practised for a short time in a scrub game with each other; all the men seemed to be in fine condition, and everything seemed to point to the conclusion that the game on the following day would be a remarkably close one. In the evening they were taken by the members of the Montreal team and their friends to the Metropolitan and City clubs, where they had been elected temporary members, and at each they were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...author quoted is not the first to note the critical attitude of the Nation, nor the first to point out what I am pleased to call lack of gush among the undergraduates, but he certainly has all the merit attaching to the discovery of the causal relation of these two facts. In regard to the value of the discovery, I may perhaps be pardoned in quoting the stump orator who said that if the cause named had an infectious disease the effect would not catch it. If the writer would allow that the phrase "lack of gush" covered the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVIEWER REVIEWED. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »