10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEN-YARD RULE»
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1
Rapport du Comité consultatif:
Action was deferred on the proposed ten- yard rule, on additional
recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Brutality, on the definition of tripping,
on the report of the Sub-Committee on the Central Board of Officials, on the
players changing ...
Jesse Lynch Williams, Edwin Mark Norris, Princeton University, 1905
2
College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy
... One of the most widely discussed proposals, the ten-yard rule, received the
assent of the joint rules committee in its first meeting, though some members
wanted to limit it to the midsection of the field, between the twenty- five-yard lines.
John Sayle Watterson, 2002
3
Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid
... 171; ten-yard rule, 266; unnecessary roughness, 206; violators of, 272; Yale-
Princeton interpretation of, 260; yards and downs, 322 Football Rules Committee,
48; Bob Wrenn and, 19; Harvard leadership and, 321; interlocking legs and, 313;
...
Bill Reid, Ronald Austin Smith, 1994
4
Pay for Play: A History of Big-time College Athletic Reform
Harvard and others demanded more. After a series of meetings in the winter and
spring of 1906, major rule changes, including the ten-yard rule, were agreed
upon. Some of the more important changes involved creating a ball-length
neutral ...
Ronald Austin Smith, 2011
5
The Hundred
Yard Lie: The Corruption of College Football and ...
College representatives met and came up with some rules changes — the ten-
yard rule for a first down and the forward pass, among others — to open up the
game and avoid the hideous line-of-scrimmage scrums then in favor. In 1910 and
...
6
Spelldown: The Big-Time Dreams of a Small-Town Word Whiz
“Don't forget the ten-yard rule, Your Craziness.” Her hands feel soft as rose petals
on my face, so I stall. “Whatever are you talking about, Your Saneness?” “The
rule that says if you get within ten yards of the dictionary, your tongue will be ...
7
Sheffield FC - Celebrating 50 Years
Although Chesterman states that this distance was originally six yards, this is
undoubtedly the forerunner of the ten-yard rule in the modern game. At an FA
committee meeting on 12 February 1867 Sheffield FC, again through
Chesterman, ...
Steven Hutton / Graham Curry & Peter Goodman, 2007
8
Michigan Alumnus. Football Edition
Ten-Yard Rule — The side having the ball must gain ten yards in three downs or
surrender it to the opponents. A player is down and the ball is dead when any
part of the man running with it, except his hands or feet, shall, when in the grasp
of ...
Ten-Yard Rule — The side having the ball must gain ten yards in three downs or
surrender it to the opponents. A player is down and the ball is dead when any
part of the man running with it, except his hands or feet, shall, when in the grasp
of ...
10
The Successful Coach: Guidelines for Coaching Practice
... they also: • preserve the unique characteristics of the sport (eg head position in
breast-stroke, offside rule in football, footwork rules in netball) • honour the
fundamental principles of fair play (eg ten yard rule in hockey and rugby for
speaking ...
