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From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: WFL yard marker
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 17:47:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 17:47:24 1983
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Oh, the good ol` WORLD FOOTBALL LEAGUE.  Died at the ripe
young age of 2.  The device they used for first down
measurements was a 1 pice device called a "Dickerrod".
It most likely was invented by a guy named Mr. Dicker.
As I recall, it had a sliding pin on it.  The Dickerrod
was placed on a 5-yard-multiple line and then bent down to
the ground.  Now you`ve got 1 end on the 5-yard-multiple
line and the pin is sticking into the ground where the
first-down yard stick would be in the NFL.  The base of
the Dickerrod was not pointy, but squared in a fashion so
it could be bent down and make the pole parallel to the
gridiron.  Understand??  The Dickerrod went the way of the
multi-colored ABA ball and the colored WTT tennis court.

Tom O`Connor