The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-29

and head work so a long way. The
Savannah boys are not overconfident, but
they are placing great reliance in their
weight, which they hope will do the work
and give them the victory. The two
teams will line up as follows:
Athens. Savannah
Fricks...........R Right End. ......... *WaIker
Fleming .........Right Tackle 49,. Cunningham
Smith ,.......... Right Guard. ........ Wyness
Nalley ......... Center Rush. ...... Williams
Black. Left Guard ....... Counhan
McCutcheon.. Left Tackle keenan,
Wrigley. Left Enid. Hartridge
*Butler ....... Quarter Back ........ Hopkins
HalSey. .........R Right Half Back .Papy
Shackelford. Half Back Connolly
Brown ..............Full Back. q. .OByrne
captain
The Savannah substitutes are half back,
Krenson; tackle, Morris, and end, Hun
ter.
The Athens boys will be here to-mor-
row morning at o'clock and will go
right to the Pulaski house. The Savan-
nah team will meet at the Pulaski house
at 1870, where it will take lunch before
going out for the game.
THE GAME AS IT is PLAYED.
1t may be interesting to those who do
not understand the game fully to know
how foot ball is played. In the first
place the game is played on gridiron-
looking field, $50 feet long and 100 feet
wide. At each end of the field are
planted two goal posts, 1917 feet apart, on
which rests bar 10 feet from the ground,
over which the ball must be kicked to Sc
cure a goal. Across the width of the
field are chalk marked lines yards apart,
by which the referee is guided in calcu-
lating the distance gained or lost by
whichever team is in possession of the
ball
The game is played by two teams of
| eleven men each. Seven of the eleven
men on either team form what is called
! the rush line, the other four being desig-
| mated as backs. The middle man on the
rush line is called the center, and he is
! the one who always puts the ball in play.
| In this connection, it may be said that so
| long as he holds the ball it is not in play,
and the other side has no right to touch
! 1t, but the moment he snaps it back then
! it is in play.
/ The two men standing on either side of
/ the center are called guards, respectively
| right and left. Next to the guards come
the tackles and then the ends.
THE QUARTER BACK.
The quarterback is stationed imme-
diately behind the center and receives the
ball when it is snapped back to him by
! the center, and then passes it to the
player who has been designated to receive
it. This is done by combination of in
tricate private signals, as for instance,
| the captain will call out "10=-72, 9"
which may mean pass to the left half
! back for run around the end or between
tackle and guard, one figure deHoting
where to pass, and the others being in
| Structlons for the men to make the open
ing through which the runner is to go.
The half-bucks are the two players who
stand, say fifty feet back of the line, and
are called right and left half backs. The
| full-back is the one farthest back on line
with the goal posts.
The object in the play is to advance the
ball over the goal line at either end of the
field The game is started in the center
of the field, and both teams will then try
to advance the ball towards the goal
which they are facing.
HOW THE POINTS ARE SCORED
The points are scored in this manner:
a touchdown counts 4 a goal kicked from
touchdown, i. e., after the touchdown has
been made, 2: goal kicked from the
field instead OF after touchdown, 5, and
Il safety touchdown, 2.
A touchdown means that one team has
forced the ball across the line of the other
teams goal The goal line is the last of
the chalk-marked lines at either end of
the field. a goal from touchdown is
made this way: After one side has sue
ceeded in making touchdown, that team
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yards, and without any interference from
the other make a try for the goal If the
ball goes over the bar between the two
posts then the Try at goal was successful,
and 1t counts two points After each
touchdown and Try AZ goal play is again
resumed in the middle OF the field.
GOAL.
A goal from the field means when some
player gets hold Of the ball ana, while
being charged upon by the opposing play
ers, drops it, and before the sphere
strikes the ground his foot sends it over
the bar between the two goal posts.
a safety means when one team, after
being forced back to its own goal, and in
order TO make the best out Of bad bar
gain, and TO prevent the other side from
securing a touchdown from which a goal
might also result, thus netting six points.
Itself carries the ball and touches il in its
own goal. This plSy, however. gives The
other side the two points instead Of the
side making the safety.
This, it is hoped, will suffice to make
clear to the uuiuitiated how the game is
played and how the points are scored
RULES OF THE GAME.
The choice of ball is decided by the toss
of a coin. Two halves, each of fOrty-iivt
minutes, are played. This means actual
play, as the umpire takes out any time
! AtSt " III III W Lltl t-C- I nc Two Teams
change goals at the end Of the first half
! The side losing the toss tor ball in the frs
| half Will have possession of ii in the star
off in the second half. When a man i.
injured and incapacitated from playins
at any stage of the game his place il
taken by one of the substitutes, boil
teams having several well trained extra,
on hand for such an emergency.
The two officials on the field are called
| referee and umpire. The umpires dutie
are to see that there is no holding, SLUG
CLING" oif-side playing, etc, and that tn,
rules are strictly enforced. The referee
has charge Of the ball, and decides VIII,
is entitled to it and where TO put it il
play, and he also calls out the gains an,
losses.