The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-12
FOOTBALL RULES
FOR 1910 SAFE
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form Of rectangle provided with goal
posts. Scoring was accomplished by
kicking or carrying the ball between
the posts. and two fouls. such as driv-
ing the ball out Of bounds. were equiv
alent to goal. Sides were changed
after each score. The game was called
at sunset and awarded by the six
judges, three for each side. to the team
that had scored the most goals. The
partisans, provided with banners and
horns, set behind the goal posts and
paraded at the end of the game, when
custom required the vanquished to de
liver their banners to the victors.
Even the most superficial antiquarv
may find the reforms of football scat
tered throughout the entire history of
England. 1t was frequently the sub
ject of royal proclamations from Ed
ward II. to Elizabeth Oliver Crom-
well inveighed against it and Arch
bishop Laud spoke and wrote for it.
Even the poets, Addison. Cowper and
Sir Walter Scott, all of whom were
players, have contributed in their
writings to the science of this noble
game.
hSloAuldtloI Oh 1dIne.
The reformation of the crude game
of their time into modern rugby has
been duly accredited to William Webb
Ellis, schoolboy genius at Rugby
ninety years ago. From his time to
the present day football has been di-
vided into two leading styles Of games.
the first in which the ball only NAV
be kicked, and the second in which the
ball may be kicked but also may b.
carried The devotees of the fi,st Of
these two games held a convention
December ], 1868. at the Freemasons
Tavern in Great Queen street, London.
at which reformation was effected in
existing rules and an organization form
ed under the name of the London Foot
ball Association. Hence the game de-
vised upon this occasion. in which car
rying the ball is prohibited has sInoa
been known as The association
game. - The words soccer ANA
''socker,' by which it also is called,
are merely derivatives of the word
association. January %, 1871. the
advocates Of the carrying principle in
the second of these two games assem-
blel at the Pail Mall restaurant IN
Regent street, London, and formed an
organization under the name Of the
Rugby Football Union, adopting the
rules of the Rugby school as its play
ing code. Five years later, or to be
precise, November 10, 1876, Harvard
Princeton and Yale held q convention
in the old Massasoit House at Spring
field, Mass, and formed the Intercol
legiate Football Association, adopting
the Rugby Union rules
This code has been subjected almost
annually since that time 20 minor mod
fieations and periodically it has come
up for complete overhauling and radi
cal reform. The cause of this con
tinual change in the American game is
the necessity of keeping the rule:
abreast with the spirit Of American vim
and invention, which annually seeks t(
attain victory through some formidab l,
tactical evolution which shall over
whelm skill and strength by sheer bril-
lance Of strategy. For thirty year
this strategicaI development has beer
devoted to the development Of mass
plays, the Y trick, flying wedge. guards
back and other familiar formations
Unfortunately for the popularity OF
foot ball, however, it is the mass play
that has been the most prolific source
Of ,,arcoual in iuripS in football