Today's Tidbit... 1876 IFA Rule #41: Kickout

In 1876, neither football nor rugby differentiated touchbacks from safeties. In fact, neither term was mentioned in the IFA’s 1876 rules since the game(s) only had the kickout:

Rule 41: Kick-out is a drop kick by one of the players of the side which has had to touch the ball down in their own goal, or into whose touch in goal the ball has gone (Rule 21), and is the mode of bringing the ball again into play, and cannot count as a goal.

So, if a player touched the ball down behind his own goal line ...