Critics assailed football and its rules committee for ten years due to the increased roughness of the game, and the 1904 and 1905 rules committees received any number of suggestions for how to make the game safer.
A spread offense in 1908 is a wild thing to imagine. Clearly different without the shotgun or forward pass, but I'd love to see some clippings or pictures.
They adopted it from the U.S. with the Burnside Rules in the early 1900s. The U.S. shifted to ten yards on three downs in 1906 and ten yards on four downs in 1912.
Unrelated question. Having option to kickoff after yielding a score still exists in Canada and went out 2003 in NCAA but when did NFL eliminate or was it never in their rules?
I did some searching, but could not find the answer. The NFL gave the scored on team the choice of kicking or receiving until at least 1959, but the trail went dead after that.
Well at least I know it existed. In some corner of my brain I thought it was in the 70’s but didn’t have any luck but found your mention of 2003 for NCAA.
A spread offense in 1908 is a wild thing to imagine. Clearly different without the shotgun or forward pass, but I'd love to see some clippings or pictures.
Canadian football is played with ten yards and three downs- at least the CFL does it that way.
They adopted it from the U.S. with the Burnside Rules in the early 1900s. The U.S. shifted to ten yards on three downs in 1906 and ten yards on four downs in 1912.
Unrelated question. Having option to kickoff after yielding a score still exists in Canada and went out 2003 in NCAA but when did NFL eliminate or was it never in their rules?
I did some searching, but could not find the answer. The NFL gave the scored on team the choice of kicking or receiving until at least 1959, but the trail went dead after that.
Well at least I know it existed. In some corner of my brain I thought it was in the 70’s but didn’t have any luck but found your mention of 2003 for NCAA.