Today's Tidbit... Getting A Kick Out Of The 1914 Rules

Although the 1914 football rules included fourteen rule changes, most were of a modest, technical nature that did not significantly alter the game. However, that does not mean the rule changes were uninteresting. Two of the changes affected the kicking game, making it more rational while also prompting one to ask why they created the old rules.

The first rule change related to kicked balls hitting the goal posts, and stemmed from an incident in the 1913 Harvard-Yale game, best remembered for Harv...