Word: balle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three practice games, both A and B nines have played a fairly good brand of ball, and the fielding has a quality of smoothness and finish seldom seen in early season games...
Smith: Wrestling 5. Squash 1. Basket-ball 5. Hockey 3. Representative 5. Total...
Gore: Wrestling 0. Squash 3. Basket-ball 6. Hockey 3. Representation 1. Total...
...greatest single endeavor of all gangs appears to be chasing and running through the streets. They never meet indoors. Misbehavior is entirely traceable to the youths' environment-lack of play facilities. They have no equipment or room for sports and games. A ten-cent rubber ball is used for a football with the lamp posts for goal lines. A stick becomes a sword to be jabbed into someone. Grimy little fists poke into forbidden places and come out with articles of value. That is their...
...found in our highly organized and progressive system. There is a story which I think demonstrates the point I am trying to bring out about Pfann, Cornell's famous backfield man, who went to Oxford, where he took up Rugby. In Rugby there is much passing of the ball, but it is all done underhand and when Pfann and one of his former teant-mates introduced the overhand pass which is used in American football it proved to be a demoralizing innovation. In this country such an innovation in one of our popular sports, though it might endanger the future...