The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-25
CHRYSANTHEMUM
Is What will Have to be Worn
On Thursday Afternoon.
THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL CAME
Something About the Roll
ing Pigskin.
Points That VIII Help the Under
standIng-The Lineup for
the Last Game.
THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL GAME

On thursday AFTERNOON at o 10
O'Clock the Town team will line up
against the Punahous on the Makiki
Baseball Grounds. In order to give
some idea of the game to people having
no understanding of it at all, the fol-
lowing rules of Revised Code are given:
A drop-kick is made by letting the
ball fall from the hands and kicking
it at the very instant it rises from the
ground.
A punt is made by letting the ball fall
from the hands and kicking it before it
touches the ground.
A foul is any violation of rule.
Charging is rushing forward to seize
the ball or tackle a player.
Foul interference is using the hands
or arms in any way to Obstruct or hold
player who has not the ball. This
does not apply to the man running
with the ball; that is, the runner may
push off his adversaries.
The grounds must be $50 feet in
length and $50 in width, with a goal
placed in the middle of each goal line,
composed of two upright posts exceed
ing 20 feet in height and placed Ii feet
inches apart, with a cross bar 10 feet
from the ground.
The umpire is the judge of the con-
duct of the players, and his decision
| is final regarding fouls and unfair
| tactics.
The referee is judge of the position
and progress of the ball, and his de-
cision is final in all points not cover
ed by the umpire.
The linesmans duty is to mark the
distance gained or lost in the progress
of the play. He shall also, under the
direction of the referee, keep time.
| A safety is made when player,
guarding his goal, receives the ball
from a player of his own side, either
by a pass, kick, or a snap-back, ana
then touches it down behind his goal
lime. or when he himself carries the
ball across his own goal line and
touches it down, or when he puts the
ball into his own touch-in-goal, or
when the ball, being kicked by one
of his own side, bounds back from an
opponent across the goal line, and he
then touches it down.
The following shall be the value OIL
each point in the scoring:
Goal obtained by touchdown, 3.
Goal from field kick, D.
Touchdown calling goaD, 4.
Safety by opponents, 2.
Many people have asked about the
term, interference" To explain: A
man is running with the ball. 1t is,
of course, the work of the members OF
the opposing team to stop his progress.
interference" comes when the remain
ing members of the team with the ball
interpose themselves between and
guard the runner.
There are many other terms used in
football. but these can only be learned
nv long acquaintance with the game.
Following is the lineup for Thurs
day:
PUNAHOU.
w. Greenwich, r. E.
Prof Howard, r. 7.
| A. Cunha, r. G.
| Allan Judd, G.
Sam Parker, Jr., l.. G.
w. Rawlins, L. t.
w. Armstrong, L. E.
H. Kluegel, Q. B.
E Long, r. H.
Prof. ingalls, Captain, L. H.
A. Long, F. B.
SUBSTITUTES.
w. Damon, Henry Judd, W. Walker,
w. Richardson, Eugene Horner.
TOWN TEAM.
Fred Damon, R. E.
Chris Holt, r. T.
John Lane, r. G.
C. A. Long (Captain), G.
Isaac Cockett, L. G.
c. F. Chillingworth, L. t.
Prince Cupid, L. E.
George Waterhouse, Q. b.
w. H. Cornwell, Jr., r. H.
P. Lishman, L. H.
August Conrad, F. B.
SUBSTITUTES.
J. Warehouse, George Angus, NJ
Tuft. H. Hapai, d. ko11.
| r[orIoc II Clark one of the men