Word: camped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book on football is being prepared by Lorin F. Deland, coach of the Harvard eleven for the last four years and Walter Camp, coach of the Yale football team for the last sixteen years. The book will be by far the most complete work on football ever published. It will consist of three volumes. The first is entitled, "For the Spectator," the second "For the Player," and the third "For the Coach...
...Missouri the untiring efforts of Francis P. Blair, who afterwards served with honor as major general, defeated the secret attempts of the Governor to secure the state for the confederacy. Blair seized a camp of the rebels before their plans were matured, acting with Nathaniel Lyon. Lyon boldly disguised himself in the dress of an old lady well known in the locality and was driven all through the camp in her victoria, getting all the information required for success. Lyon and Blair continued their prompt action and drove the confederates to the southwest corner ot the state. There the Southerners...
Ordered to keep Polk occupied, Grant made a dash upon Belmont, just across the Mississippi from Columbus, and defeated Gen, Pillow decisively. His raw, troops became unmanageable, however, and delayed so long looting the camp, that the Confederates returned and almost cut off Grant's retreat...
...Permanent arrangements would lead to uniform playing rules.- (a) The existance of conflicting systems of rules is deplorable: Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly, Sept. 28, p. 932; Walter Camp in Outing, Nov., 1895, p. 170.- (b) Permanent rules for Harvard-Yale games would set a standard that would be generally adopted.- (c) Could be made a powerful means of reforming athletics...
...Walter Camp suggests the adoption of Rugby football in large colleges in order to give the men of light weight a chance to show their ability...