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...rule, requiring a gain of five yards in three successive downs, settles this difficulty in a most thorough manner...
...side pressing its opponents to the goal line will almost certainly be required to make an attempt at goal as a last extremity before losing the ball. The side forced back to its own lines will still, however, be put at a great disadvantage, since the safety touch-down rule is imperative and punt-overs in such a case will be extremely difficult, and consequently hazardous. It will be interesting to notice the shifts which the different teams will adopt next fall to get out of such a dangerous position...
...seem on paper, every student knows that, in reality, it is open to many objections. It is about time that some better system were adopted which would give every man a fair chance, and which would not be liable to so many abuses. In the first place, the rule is that seniors are allowed to retain their rooms for their own occupation. But they are not allowed to transfer their rooms in case they decide not to occupy them in person. So reads the catalogue. Now this regulation would be perfectly just and fair were it enforced in every case...
...Pierce, Captain, and J. S. Harlan; Yale by Walter Camp, Captain, and Emmet Williams, and Harvard by H. M. Manning, Captain, and H. G. Leavitt. A resolution, presented by Mr. Rankine, was adopted that the Inter-collegiate Foot-ball Association should be asked to take into consideration the rules of the game and see what changes were necessary. The Americans said they first played under the Rugby rules, and made the changes that appeared necessary to them. Mr. Moeran, who presided, said that he had only seen two games in this country, and if those were a sample...
...best general results can be obtained. We see no reason to doubt that that mean was not attained at the recent meetings. Furthermore, we believe that the starts were in most if not all cases made at points agreed upon by the contestants in each event. As a general rule they should be capable of judging with what start the best record can be made...