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: — www.footballarchaeology.com
TImothy P. Brown brings to light in this Tidbit that season long suspensions were handed out penalties for violations that did not always meet the standards of our modern opinion. Some of these were season long suspensions.
