Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Forchheimer, '87, will act as leader of the Pierian Sodality in the coming winter concert...
Regular meeting this evening in Holden. Reading from "As You Like It." Act II. scenes...
...mostly but a momentary affair, and the ball, if not carried through by superior weight, is turned out almost at once to one of the "corners." Behind the bully stand the "flying man," the "long-behind," and the "goals," and sometimes a player is taken from the bully to act as "short behind." The game is a terribly fast one, as, except by the "behinds" no "cool kicking" is allowed; no player "up," that is to say, may kick the ball hard; he must "run it down," or "dribble it," as the phrase goes elsewhere than at Eton, keeping...
...immense advantage to his team. Placed in a position where he could see everything and relieved from all the mental strain required of an actual player, he was able to coach and give the signs to his eleven in a most effective manner as well as to act as umpire. Mr. Adams, our umpire, did well in that capacity and did some excellent coaching, but he did not have the management of the team down to such a fine point as did Mr. Connor. We should like to suggest that the gentleman selected to act as umpire in the remaining...
...seemed not only to know where he himself should be at a given time, but also where every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly due to the fact that he had been told by the Captain, or whoever acted as coach, what to do in any given case. This idea was thoroughly confirmed in my mind, on the evening following, when I was told that such was truly the state of the case. To quote in the words of my informer, "Each rusher was told to back up' some...