Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with horrified amazement and with an overwhelming sense of incredulity that we have read of the proposed abolishment of "love" from the game of tennis. No more is that soft-sounding epithet to be applied to one's opponent or oneself amid the thuds of racquet against ball. One-in, two-out, three-all replace the dulcet tones of fifteen-love, and love-thirty, and the dignified basso of dence...
Next the team retired to the Cage, where the backs threw the ball around, while the two lines opposed each other in "breaking through" practice. Then the whole squad ran onto the field and was given a long signal drill...
Passadena offers a royal welcome to her visitors. The evenings before the great game are filled with merriment and sport for the eastern guests. On the evening after the game a ball is held in the Maryland Hotel. Win or lose, no team ever comes away from Pasadena disappointed, for the western spirit of hospitality pervades the atmosphere and the qualities of real sportsmanship are recognized on every hand...
...Wednesday or Thursday the foot ball team will oppose western plays if present plans come through. An assortment of Oregon tactics is on the way East and is due to arrive tomorrow Coach Knox will then collect a team from his squad of second-string men, drill it in the new plays for one afternoon, and the next day pit it against the University team in a dummy scrimmage...
...committee has swept aside the old foot-fault rule, with its numerous interpretations, and proposes the following: "Before commencing to serve the server shall stand with both feet at rest behind the serving line and both feet shall be kept behind the base-line until the ball is struck." The main purpose of the rule is to prevent the server from taking an unfair advantage in getting...