Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-06

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Rule 26.-(a) A foul shall be granted
for intentional delay of game, off side
play, or holding an opponent, unless he
has the ball No delay arising from
any cause whatsoever shall continue
more than five minutes.
Cb) The penalty for fouls and VIOLA
tons of rules, except otherwise pro-
vided, shall be drawn from the other
side; or, if the side making the foul
has not the ball, five yards to the op-
ponents.
Rule 27.-(a) 4 player shall be dis
qualified for unnecessary roughness,
hacking or striking with closed fist.
Co For the offences of throttling,
tripping up or intentional tackling be-
low the knees, the opponent shall re-
ceive twenty-five yards, or a free-kick,
at their option. In case, however, the
twenty-five yards would carry the bail
across the goal line they can have half
the distance from the spot of the of
fence to the goal line, and shall not be
allowed 4 free-liick
Rule PA player may throw or pass
the ball in any direction except towards
opponents goal. If the ball be batted
in any direction or thrown forward it
shall so down on the spot to opponents.
Rule 29.-If player when off side
interferes with an opponent trying for
a fair catch, by touching him or the
ball, or waving his hat or hands, the
opponent may have a free-lIick, or
down, where the interference occurred.
Rule 3O.-(a If a player having the
ball be tackled and the ball fairly held,
the man so tackhng shall cry held"
the one so tackled must cry down."
and some player of his side put it down
for a sCinmage. The snapper back and
the man opposite him cannot pick out
the ball with the hand until it touch a
third man,nor can the opponents touch
the ball until it is in motion. The snap
per back is entitled to but half the ball.
If the snapper back be off side in the
act of swapping back, the ball must be
snapped again, and if this occurs three
times on same down, the ball goes to
opponents. The man who first receives
the ball when snapped back from
a down, or thrown back from fair,
shall not carry the ball forward under
any circumstances whatever. If, in
three consecutive fairs and downs, I'M
less the ball cross the goal line, a team
shall not have advanced the ball five
or taken it back twenty yards, it shall
go to the opponents on spot Of fourth.
Consecutive means without leaving
the hands Of the side holding it, and
by akick giving opponents fair and
equal chance of gaining possession OF
it, When the referee, or umpire, has
given side five yards, the following
down shall ho counted the first down.
(a) The man who puts the ball in
play in q sCrimmage cannot pick it up
until it has touched some third man.
Third man" means any other player
than the one putting the ball in play
and the man opposite him.
Rule 31.-If the ball goes into touch,
whether it bounds back or not, player
on the side which touches it down must
bring it 10 the spot where the line was
crossed, ard there either
I. Bound the ball into the field Of
play, or touch it in with both hands,
at right angle to the touch line, and
then run with it, kick it, or throw it
back; or
II. Throw it out at right angles to
the touch line; or
III. Walk out with it at right angles
to touch line any distance not less than
five nor more than fifteen yards, and
there put it down, first declaring how
far he intends walking. The man who
puts the ball in must face field or OPP
pOnentS' goal, and he can alone have
his foot outside touch line Anyone,
except him, who puts his hands or feet
between the ball and his opponents
goal is off side. If it be not thrown out
at right angles, either side may claim it
thrown over again, and if it fails to be
put in play fairly in three trials it shall
go to the opponents
Rule ga side which has made q
touchdown in their opponents goal
must try at goal, either by a place-zick
or u punt-out And if the goal be miss
ed the ball shall go to a touch-back to
the defenders of the goal.
Rule 33.-(a) If the try be a place
kick, a player of the side which has
touched the ball down shall bring it
up to the goal line, and making Il mark
opposite the spot where it was touched
down, bring it out at right angles
to the goal line such distance as he
thinks proper and there place it for
another of his side to kick The Op.
ponents must remain behind their god
line until the ball has been placed on
the ground.
(b) The placer in Il ty-at-gOal may
be off side or in touch Witout vitiating
the kick
Rule 34.-If the try be by punt-out,
the punter shall bring the ball up to
the goal line, and making a mark OPP
pOsite the spot where it was touched
down, punt-Out from any spot behind
line of goal and not nearer the goal
post than such mark, to another Of his
side, who must all stand outside Of goal
line not less than fifteen feet. If the
touchdown was made in touch III goal,
the punt-Out shall be made from the
intersection Of the goal and touch lines
The opponents may line up anywhere
on the goal line, except space Of five
feet on each side Of punters mark, but
cannot interfere with punter nor can
he touch the ball after kicking it until
it touch some other player. If a fair
catch be made from a punt-Out, the
mark shall serve to determine positions
as the mark of any fair catch. If a
fair catch De-nOt made the ball shall 90