Crossing the goal-line was one of them and kicking the ball over the goal-posts was another. Harvard seems to have done at least one of these things, McGill had by far the faster team. Bowie, Huntington and Joseph were all springs and runners of note in Montreal. Bowie was one of the very fast men in Canada at the time, having been credited with a clocking of Huntington and Joseph were also track men and these three on the half line made things hot for the Harvard defenders time after time.
According to Mr. On the following day the universities met again, this time under Canadian rules with 13 men to the side. The line-up is very difficult to ascertain. There was no complete list of players in any paper and human memory is so frail that a survivor who was known to have played denied all knowledge of the game when he was asked to name his teammates 30 years after the match.
The game ended in a scoreless draw after two hours of the most strenuous sort of play. That same year, on Oct. James the Apostle now stands. Again McGill went down to defeat. The rules had apparently been modified because only nine men took the field and their positions remain unknown, Mr.
Joseph being able to speak only for himself and one or two others. Harvard played superior football. Their attack was faster and more determined, the McGill running halves were collared on each break-away. The pursuit rule had been dropped and McGill had now nothing of which complain.
Until a few years ago, the methods of playing football were varied and numerous, but the game has finally settled into two distinct styles — the Rugby rules and the Association rules. We today publish a copy of the College rules, revised and amended up to April, , and these will make the chief features of our game apparent to everyone. They disagree very materially with the rules of the Canadian Association, and while we regret our exclusion from playing for the Champion Cup, yet we feel bound, both by honour and inclination, to stick to our own game, which seems always to have suited our men peculiarly well.
Each goal shall consist of two upright posts, 16 feet high and 15 feet apart, with a cross-bar at a distance of 10 feet from the ground. The maximum length of the ground shall be yards; the maximum breadth shall be 75 yards. The number of players on each side shall be not more than 20, or less than The definite number too be settled by the Captains before each match. The winners of the toss shall have the option of kick off or choice of goals. The game shall be commenced by a place kick from the centre of the ground, and the opposite side shall not come within 10 yards of the ball.
The ball shall be kicked off i. After a goal is won, ends shall be changed, and the losing side shall kickoff. By the early s, Canadian athletes were playing the American version of football with notable differences borrowed from rugby. A team of Canadian university students were responsible for influencing the NFL version of football as the sport evolved in the U. In , Harvard University invited McGill to play a new sport the Americans had invented — a style of football based on rugby, but with American alterations.
In particular, running with the ball dishonoured the American football playbook of the s. Henry Grant, the American team captain, decided to have a talk with the Canadian team captain, David Roger. Roger said running with the ball was an essential part of Canadian football, since the McGill team were rugby players by tradition.
Eventually, both university teams decided to play the game with a mixture of Canadian and American rules. After those historic matches in Boston, the resemblances and disparities between American and Canadian football progressed in each country.
With a smaller team, the Americans preferred to have 11 players on each side compared to 15 players in Rugby Union. CFL rules require the defense to set up a yard off the line of scrimmage—that extra yard of space between the offensive and defensive lines also means that there's really no excuse for not getting your first down on a QB keeper, so teams tend to go for it.
With a situation that lame, where no play is actually made by the receiving team, wouldn't it be easier for them to just request a ball placement 40 yards from the line of scrimmage and be done with it?
When a punt is made, the receiving team is obliged to make a play. The kicking team must give the kick returner five yards or suffer a "no yards" penalty, but once the ball hits the receiver's hands, all bets are off, so he better be ready to start running. The CFL's playing field is yards long, 65 yards wide and the yard deep end zones are cavernous. With more room to operate, offenses have the ability to run more stunt plays, kick returners can sometimes get around defensive coverages by reversing direction and backing up, and being at or near the goal line doesn't automatically limit your play selections due to lack of playing surface to work with.
The extra real estate also means teams get to have another player on the field. An extra player in the pattern means more options for the quarterback to look at and one more guy for the defensive coverage to track. As with the other differences in the two games, more room allows for more creativity on both sides of the ball, which can't help but be a good thing when it comes to entertainment value. One added wrinkle to the wider field: it also means the hash marks are further separated.
This most particularly affects the kicking game, as kickers aren't always starting within the arms of the uprights. This can make even close-in field goal attempts challenging, since you might have to chip in from a funky angle.
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