Word: camp
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Herald speaks as follows of the Yale nine. "The Yale College ball players expect to do some excellent work during the coming season. Mr. Camp, the trainer of the club, was in this city yesterday and stated to a Herald reporter that he thought the Yale College team would be one of the finest fielding college nines in the arena, and he felt certain that they would also make their mark as batsmen. He has eighteen men exercising in the gymnasium, and this year the selection of players will be made on a different plan than heretofore...
Wright and Ditson have published a book entitled, "Foot-ball Records of American Teams," by Walter C. Camp...
...definition of the faculty's idea of the term "professional" was brought out. Men employed as trainers who did not participate in sports for money like Mr. Camp of Yale and Col. Bancroft, the faculty did not for its purposes regard as professionals...
...novelist is reported to have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without having read either of them what a Goethe could say and did say, and what a Schiller...
...Camp, of Yale, thus writes to the Clipper: "The intention of the convention was to show the public that we, as players, do not regard off-side play as "cheating" or "dishonorable action" in the least; that it is a part of the play, but we limit it for the sake of the game, the same as we used to limit a pitcher in unfair delivery. Hence the rule that "A player shall be off-side but twice during a game " then, when the referee has said: "You have been off-side twice," he cannot make a third without disqualification...