Word: armes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this year; Lynam, No. 4, in the last crew, is so occupied with his studies in the Medical School that there are grave doubts that he will be able to row; No. 2 was Captain Perkins. It will be remembered that late in the spring he so injured his arm that he could not row till within a few days of the race. The condition of his arm is such that he will not row except at the risk of injuring the elbow joint for life. Waters, perhaps the strongest man in his freshman crew last year, was over-trained...
...supply of stones and intended to help break up the meeting were much struck with the preacher's face and one said to the other that he was "no man." This boy, at the end of the meeting, went up and laid his hand on Wesley's arm and then said, in surprise, "he is a man" Wesley turned and laid his hand on the boy's head and through the influence which had begun with his first sight of the preacher's face the boy became later one of Wesley's so-called "brown-bread preachers...
...game, should note the very emphatic language of Walter Camp, in the "Foot ball Record for November," in the back of Outing, on the pernicious development of interference. His ruling is perfectly clear. "The use of the body and shoulder is legitimate, the use of hand or arm is not, and if they are used the balance of the sport is disturbed, because the tackling is rendered so ineffective as to be well nigh useless in the case of individuals, and the advances can only be checked by massing players at the point of attack. It is the open play...
...front of them stood the Harvard team, waiting on tip-toe for the ball to be put in play. Capt. McClung gave one more look over his men and then signalled Barbour to start the play. He passed the ball to big Sanford, who tucked it under his arm, and the closely locked Yale wedge started with a rush into Harvard's territory. It gained the five yards to the middle of the field and then began to break up. Emmons, Harvard's left end, darted in the side and got a good grip on Heffelfinger, who fell...
McNear shows good speed and blocks off well but is easily tackled and does not understand arm work in warding off a tackler. He plays hard when in the line but is too easily stopped when he has the ball...