Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this offense the penalty should be the removal of the player guilty of it from the field during the half-time in which it was committed. In regard to the block game, the only rule likely to put a stop to that is to make so many safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown. Four touchdowns are equal to a goal, and it would be well to make four safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown, thereby giving the attacking side the right to try at goal whenever the defensive side had touched down for safety four times. The code...
...collegiate foot-ball convention held a few days ago in New York, the rules were materially altered. A very satisfactory scheme to prevent the "block game" was presented and adopted. Under the revised rules the basis of scoring is made on the safety touchback. Two of these equal a touchdown; a goal from the field counts five touchdowns, and a goal from a touchdown six. In case of a tie on other points, if one side makes two safeties more than the other they lose the game. Two warnings disqualfy instead of three, and tackling in "fair" invariably brings...
...sailed over the bar, but the referee decided no goal, owing to bad tackling. Soon after Princeton was forced to make a safety, and for some time the ball hovered about her goal until Twombly made a magnificent run and passed the ball to Buck, who scored the first touchdown directly under the bar; amidst loud cheers Richards kicked a goal...
...turn had the advantage of the wind, and by the good kicking of Richards the ball was soon forced near the Princeton goal. After several brilliant rushes by Hull, and in spite of the dogged resistance of Princeton, Tompkins carried the ball over the line and scored the second touchdown for Yale, from which Richards kicked the second goal. From the kick off Princeton gradually worked the ball through their opponent's line, and after a brilliant run Peace carried it over the line. Yale, however, disputed the touchdown on the ground that Peace lost his hold of the ball...
...greeted by hisses and cries of disapproval by the crowd. Unless better treatment can be secured, it might be well for Harvard to withdraw from an association that countenances such play, or at least refuse to play Yale, until it promises to play a perfectly fair game. The first touchdown was made in twelve minutes. The ball was then kicked off again and returned by Yale. The Harvard man, Edmands, had no sooner caught it than he was violently hurled to the ground by a Yale man and trampled upon by others. Edmands naturally resenting this foul play, the Yale...