Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-10-19
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FOOT FALL.
A Description of the Game-Names
and Position of Players.
Interesting Notes.

There are three distinct games of modern
foot ball. The Association or Gaelic, play
I'd in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and parts
of England. The Rugby, played i'm Eng
land, Australia and Canada. The College,
or American game played exclusively i'm
America.
The first game is played with a round
| ball, by teams of eleven men on each side
the ball is advanced entirely by kicking
and hitting with the head or body. 1t
must never be touched by n hands. Ia
| game is noted for speed, agility and indi-
vidual play.
The second game is played by teams of
fifteen men. The ball is oblong instead of
round and is advanced by being carried
forward in the hands or under the arm of
the player. The player advancing the ball
may be stopped by being "collared' or
blocked, that is caught and thrown or
run into. 1t is essentially a game for fast
runners and individual players, altho off
ering greater opportunities for team play
than the former.
The American game is a growth from
these two, particularly the latter. 1t was
first introduced into the Eastern colleges
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its growth has been so rapid that it threat
ems to displace base ball as the national
game.
Foot ball is a cold weather game. The
seison begins Sept. LIST and closes on
Thanksgiving day. tits played by a team
of eleven men. Seven line men and four
men back of the line. The man in the
centre of the line Is called the centre-rush
the man on either side of him is a guard,
next TO the guard on either side is the
tackle and next to the tackles are the ends
Directly back of the ce:,tre-rush plays
the quarter back, on either side of him a
half bach and behind him the full back.
The game is played on a field no yards
long and fifty five yards wide. The object
of the game is TO carry the ball across the
boundary of the field protected by the
opposing side.
At the beginning OF the game the ball is
put i'm play by being kicked from Ia mid
die Of the field. The ball is caught by the
opposing team and carried back until the
man carving it is tackled" or thrown
Upon the spot where he is thrown team
line up and the ball il again put in play
by being tossed back by tine centre-rush
TO the quarter back and passed by the
quarter back to some man in the team
who attempts TO carry it forward. Ii a
team fails to dvance the ball D yards IA :
| attempts il passes to the other side.
Carving the bali across the opposing
line or making a "touch-down" counts five
points. After the touchdown the team
making the touch down is allowed a kick
ut the goal. if the ball passes between the
- ..o- tl4a bar one additional
point is counted.
a game consists of two halves OF from
20 To "a minutes each. The team making
, the greater number of points ~ the close
of the second half is successful.
The elements of foot ball are thus seen
| 70 be extremely simple, but in it's prac-
tice IL is the most intricate and scientific
of our athletic sports.
1t is essentially a team game every
man having his particular place in each
play. 4 well drilled team should move
like a well oiled piece of machinery, every
part in its place. The science of foot bah
consists in devising plays which no
opposing team can stop and in devising a
system az defense against which no OPP
posing team can game.
NOTES.
The first fot. ball game in Day Co. will
he played Saturday at 2 y. M, on the ball
ground, between the Webster High school
team and Watertown High School team.
The boys wish to thank all those who
so generously assisted i'm the purchase of
their uniforms. The padded trousers
soften the ground wonderfully when one
IL tackled.
The line mp of the Webster team will be
az follows:
Left End-F. Dolan, Left Tackle-lfc.
Kcnnett, Left Guard-Eseland, centcf-