This is #5 in a series covering football’s original 61 rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Football Association in 1876. We review one rule each Friday. Rule 5: A goal may be obtained by kicking the ball from the field of play direct (i.e., without touching the ground or the dress or person of any player on either side) over the cross-bar of the opponents' goal. Whether it touch such cross-bar or the posts it is called a poster and is not a goal.