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From: halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: A football question
Message-ID: <603@houxz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 17:22:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 17:22:32 1983
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While it is correct that placing the markers at first down and spotting
the ball are imprecise, with practice you can be amazingly accurate.
The object is to go past the marker, not go 360 inches.  Thus even a mis-
placement of the sticks is not fatal.  As to how they are kept in the same
place as they are transported across the field, there is a little doodad
clipped to the chain where it crosses a 5yard line.  This marker is what is
lined up, not the far stick.