Today's Tidbit... Facing A One-Year Suspension

Some consider today's penalty for targeting - disqualification for the current and next half - to be excessive, but that penalty is mild compared to one recommended in 1906. The 1906 rules committee emphasized removing foul play from the game as part of the effort to make football safer. That emphasis was reflected by the rule of the time called for tossing players from the game for unnecessary roughness, including:

Striking with the fist or elbows

Kneeing

Kicking

Meeting with the knee

Striking with ...