Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what little interest there is, without endangering the whole project by trying to do too much. As to admitting graduates to the college clubs on an equal footing with the students, it would seem that this course has little to commend it, for it would be hardly just to allow older and more experienced shots to compete with men who are getting their first training during their college course. Moreover, graduates of a college might with as much justice be allowed to form a part of a crew, nine, or eleven, as to hold a position on a college shooting...
...folly of its raid against playing with professionals. After having given athletics a good set-back by driving off James Robinson, they deprived the nine of a trainer. Yet they have a professional gymnast in charge of the gymnasium, a professional instructor in sparring and fencing, and allow the nine to play under professional rules, with a professional ball and under professional umpires. [N. Y. Clipper...
...depend on another's watchfulness, and so suspend investigation until after the accident has happened. All in all, we have every reason to be thankful that it was no worse. The outcome has been so much better than anyone at the time supposed was possible, that we gladly allow the matter to rest here...
...duties and powers of his office were distinctly understood and mutually agreed upon, we think a referee could be found who could and would secure a gentlemanly game. With such a referee it would be unwise, in our opinion, not to allow a substitute to take the place of a dismissed player. It would be better to make it an individual matter than to have the team suffer for the rowdyism of one player. For under a new code of this sort, no gentleman could be betrayed into conduct unworthy his name. We would not, however, favor an increased severity...
...real Yale spirit in foot-ball is the tone of both reports, though particularly of the account of the freshman game. This gives in the most partial way an account of the game. In it there are several insinuations that Yale really made touchdowns which the referee would not allow. The crowning point is reached, however, when it boldly states that "four minutes before the time had expired, Mr. Peace declared the game finished, " when "it seemed as if Yale must make a touchdown, so near was the ball to the goal line." This plain statement to the effect that...