In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

However, such a tactic was not recorded as a stolen base, and modern rules forbid going backwards on the basepaths in order to " confuse the defense or make a travesty of the game ".

The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers.

Major League Baseball elected not to retrofit the records to the modern rules, and Ruth's total stayed at 714.

The Marquess of Queensberry rules have been the general rules governing modern boxing since their publication in 1867.

In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

The oldest document to bear the word " croquet " with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers ' Company in London.

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

Young's perfect game was the first under the modern rules established in 1893.

In several languages the rules have changed over time, and so older dictionaries may use a different order than modern ones.

This decision by the court to accept Smeaton's evidence is widely cited as the root of modern rules on expert evidence.

The first club was in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London, but the modern rules grew out of a version played by Middlesex cricket clubs for winter sport.

With the existence of modern independent states, each with its own legislative system, or its own body of ulamas, each country develops and applies its own rules, based on its own interpretation of religious prescriptions.

The modern set of rules was published on 29 October 1917 by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz, and Erich Konigh from Germany.

In its modern most practiced format, auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance ; rules have changed over the years.

There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.

Perhaps the first instrument of modern public international law was the Lieber Code, passed in 1863 by the Congress of the United States, to govern the conduct of US forces during the United States Civil War and considered to be the first written recitation of the rules and articles of war, adhered to by all civilized nations, the precursor of public international law.

One notable entry is todas tablas, which has an identical starting position to modern backgammon and follows the same rules for movement and bearoff.

PDF: United States National Archery Association Flight committee modern longbow flight rules, U. S. National Archery Association.

The opponents set up opposing chairs and fence while seated, all the usual rules of fencing are applied.

There are rules which govern the priority of a hit when both fencers hit each other in the same phrase ( within 300 milliseconds for modern electric fencing ).

Fédération Internationale d ' Escrime rules use a coin toss to determine the winner of a fencing match that remains tied at the end of a " sudden death " extra minute of competition.

As Sikh colleges opened during the 1880s, European rules of fencing were applied to create what is now called khel or sport gatka.

In the mid-18th century, Domenico Angelo's fencing academy in England established the essential rules of posture and footwork that still govern modern sport fencing, although his attacking and parrying methods were still much different from current practice.

As fencing progressed, the combat aspect slowly faded until only the rules of the sport remained.

While the fencing taught in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was intended to serve both for competition and the duel ( while understanding the differences between the two situations ), the type of fencing taught in a modern sport fencing salle is intended only to train the student to compete in the most effective manner within the rules of the sport.

The French school of fencing also moves away from its Italian roots, developing its own terminology, rules and systems of teaching.

Because there is no agreement as to the exact rules of classical fencing and because competition is de-emphasized, what competitions there are generally local or regional in nature, with the rules depending upon where the tournament is held.

In response to the relatively high speed of sabre fencing, the rules for sabre were changed to prohibit the forward cross-over ( where the back foot passes the front foot )-it is now a cardable offence.

He did not, however, confine his activity to Cæsarea, where he originated several ritualistic rules ( Yer.

Basic Role-Playing ( BRP ) is a role-playing game system which originated in the fantasy-oriented RuneQuest role-playing game rules.

Scholars are divided over whether these rules originated with Jesus or with apostolic practice.

" He claims that the term " operates as a catch-all to lump together disparate laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues " and that it creates a " bias " by confusing these monopolies with ownership of limited physical things, likening them to " property rights ".

There are several KR techniques such as frames, rules, tagging, and semantic networks which originated in cognitive science.

The most popular modern storytelling games originated as a sub-genre of role-playing games, where the game rules and statistics are heavily de-emphasised in favor of creating a believable story and immersive experience for all involved.

Since package management systems, at least on Unix systems, originated as extensions of file archiving utilities, they can usually only either overwrite or retain configuration files, rather than applying rules to them.

This approach to naming originated in the successful development of regular rules for the naming of organic compounds.

Fingerprint identification, also referred to as individualization, involves an expert, or an expert computer system operating under threshold scoring rules, determining whether two friction ridge impressions are likely to have originated from the same finger or palm ( or toe or sole ).

The theory states that a four-handed dice-chess game ( Chaturaji ) was originated in India in approximately 3000 BC ; and that arising from the results of certain rules, or the difficulty in getting enough players, the game evolved into a two-handed game ( Chaturanga ).

Although gender preference originated for other reasons, the modern science of genetics has made it possible to recognize that a strict gender preference in succession rules leads to heirs who share considerably more DNA with the distant ancestors who precede them in the line than would otherwise be the case.

Many of these rules and procedures originated in the early years of the Republic, and were upheld over the centuries under the principle of mos maiorum (" customs of the ancestors ").

" Rueda de Miami " originated in the 1980s from Miami, is a formal style with many rules based on a mix, and is a hybridization of Rueda de Cuba & Los Angeles-style Salsa and dance routines that reflect American culture ( e. g. Coca-cola, Dedo, Adios ) which is not found in the traditional Cuban-style Rueda.

The basic rules and technique of the event originated in the United States.

Karate styles embracing these rules are often called knockdown karate styles, and these include both organizations that originated from Kyokushin, such as World Oyama Karate, Ashihara Karate, Enshin Karate, Shidōkan, and Seidokaikan ( the style that originated the K-1 ), as well as styles that originated independently from Kyokushin.

Maw was first seen being played in 1511 and the earliest written rules of 1576, the incomplete " Groom Porter's lawes at Mawe ," may have originated from Scotland.

Sherborne was one of the first four schools in the country to adopt the code of rules that originated at Rugby School.

The " bleugh " saying actually originated from the rules of Mallet's Mallet, where Timmy would hurriedly repeat the rules every day.

The concepts of armor class and hit points originated in a set of American Civil War naval rules.

The game originated at Purdue University, specifically the Theta Chi Fraternity house and rules are a combination of variations below.

Peake's commentary states that although Biblical rules regarding ritual purification following bodily discharges clearly have sanitory uses, they ultimately originated from the taboos against contact with blood and semen, due to the belief that these contained life, more than any other bodily fluid, or any other aspect of the body.