Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...foot-ball Yale's record is unmistakably superior to Harvard's, standing five games to one draw, there being no game in 1877. In 1876 the score was one goal to two touchdowns, showing that the victory was won by some accidental superiority in kicking, and not by the general excellence of the team. In 1878 the score was one goal to nothing; in 1880, a goal and a touchdown to nothing; in 1881 Yale won with no score, Harvard making four safety touchdowns, and in 1882 Yale won by her largest score, one goal and three touchdowns. Thus, although...
...plain during the last season's contests that victories would likely be very much the result of chance unless the safety touch was made to enter into the final score. And it naturally followed that this would make the best basis from which to reckon higher scores. A touchdown now equals two, a goal from the field five, and a goal from a touchdown six safeties. No doubt can be entertained concerning the relation between goals from touchdowns and those otherwise kicked. Our game with Princeton showed the immediate necessity of a precise definition in such cases and the disputed...
...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...
...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...