Word: balling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amendment to the Constitution of the University Base-Ball Club, whereby the Nine shall choose their own captain, has been proposed...
...Base-Ball Nine are busy practising in the Gymnasium every day, and have played some practice games since the term opened...
TICKETS to the foot-ball supper may be obtained as late as 5.30 this afternoon, at 2 Beck. The price of tickets is six dollars...
...such noble heroes. Now, however, that we have returned to college, and have come in contact again with these heroes, where they could see and appreciate our admiration and gratitude, and feel rewarded by it, we have forgotten all this gladness. We don't care now about boating or ball. Now we look upon the men who will pull away all winter on those machines just to get on the crew, or pass ball all winter in the Gymnasium just to get on the nine, as a kind of disreputable lunatic. What we think about and care about...
...crew and on the nine need is that encouragement which would be given them by a manifestation of personal interest and pride in what they are doing, - not mere passing interest, dying out with the day of their victory, but permanent, shown by visiting the boat-house and the ball-ground, and watching them at work, and helping them, in a thousand well-known ways, in their self-denial...