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The constable should have been designated as the twelfth man.

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Ropes show up in the earliest prints, newspaper illustrations, the work of Remington et al. ..

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I haven't looked for the earlier mention of ropes, but they are mentioned in newspaper articles by 1887 and in the rule book by the early 1890s

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In the Rules! ..

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