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Fielding Yost. Football for Player and Spectator
Football for Player and Spectator
Table of Contents
Preface
Football: Its origin and development
Football: Its prestige and popularity in American colleges and high school life
Football: What it does for the player physically, mentally, and morally
Football from the spectator's point of view
Football: Its varied characteristics as played in the different parts of the United States
Preparing the Material: Passing, Starting, Catching, Kicking, etc
Individual Positions
Training
Development of the Team
The Evening's Work
Requirements of the Individual
Signals
Team Play
Photographs of formations and diagrams of plays
Generalship
A few "Hurry Ups"
Rules. Foot Ball Rules
The Officials
Equipment, Officials, Etc
Rule 1
Definition of Terms
Rule 2
Rule 3
Rule 4
Rule 5
Rule 6
Rule 7
Rule 8
Rule 9
Rule 10
Rule 11
Rule 12
Rule 13
Rule 14
Rule 15
Rule 16
Rule 17
Rule 18
Rule 19
Rule 20
Rule 21
Rule 22
Rule 23
Rule 24
Rule 25
Rule 26
Rule 27
Rule 28
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Fielding Yost
Published by Good Press, 2020
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Once more rings out the signal. The foe's formation suddenly changes. The backs form a wedge with the full back, ten yards back of the center, at the open end. It is the formation for a punt, the kick productive of the greatest possible distance and the inevitable result when a team fails to gain by carrying the ball. Another futile attempt at the ends or the line would have handed over possession of the ball to our team with but 30 yards to travel to a touchdown, and this would have been poor generalship.
Back from the center comes the ball as the kicker holds out his hands and on that instant our men charge. The ball, dropped from his hands and meeting the kicker's foot just before it reaches the ground, is booted high in air and down the field. Under it scurries our own full back, 50 yards behind his own line, while his comrades in front of him are doing their best to keep the opponents from getting through in time to make a tackle far down the field. The catch is beautifully executed and the runner starts sprint ing back. One of the enemy's ends does succeed in getting through, however, and rushes to meet him. The full back dodges, eludes him and comes tearing up the field while, all about us, men are urging him on. Friend and foe now mingle alike before him, one helping him, another endeavoring to bring him down. Full 30 yards he comes and then, dodging one tackler, rushes right into the arms of another. It is our ball and our turn to carry the oval.
