Word: balle
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scheme proposed by the Class Day Committee suggested a ball game with Yale on Saturday afternoon. Would it not be pleasanter and more appropriate to have a game with a team of graduates? There could be no possible ground for ill-feeling, we should be very glad to see famous old players again, and they would doubtless come back on that day more joyfully than on any other...
...only song omitted in this edition is "Foot Ball Song...
...those interested in the new game of wicket polo or pin hockey are invited to take part in the game which will be played tomorrow in the Gymnasium. The wickets have arrived and an informal game will be played in the ball-court of the Gymnasium at 4 p. m. Everybody is free to take part. Polo sticks and shin guards are advised for players...
...Moon's Ball." (Carpenter...
...high. The visiting teams brought their own pit with them, in sixteen pieces which were bolted together and set up in the gymnasium. The pins are set up in a circle, the four white ones alternating with the four black, and each man has a pin to guard. The ball used is a polo ball. It is batted with a hockey stick. The object of the game is for each side to knock over with the ball the opponents' pins without stumbling over its own. The shinguards are used continually to protect the pins from the ball...