he past few editions of this series have focused on the very important reforms made to the game in early 1906 by the group of football minds that would eventually become known as the NCAA. The changes were necessary as the game itself was in jeopardy: Many influential people wanted the "dangerous" athletic spectacle banned.
Some changes previously discussed were the adoption of a rudimentary style of forward pass, the reduction of regulation game times to two thirty minute halves, and numerous other small changes in officiating duties and the like. We failed to mention in our last edition that a Mr. John Heisman helped initiate the idea of the forward pass after he had seen it run illegally about a decade earlier.
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