Word: casper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...issue of Harper's Weekly for Dec. 26, Mr. Casper W. Whitney gives the following as his selection of an All-America Football Eleven...
...Casper Whitney has decided in regard to the question of eligibility of football players which was referred to him by Harvard and Pennsylvania, that no man who has played four years on college teams shall be eligible. The decision bars out Captain Williams and Fullback Brooke, of the Pennsylvania team, both of whom have played more than four years, but were still eligible under the Pennsylvania rule, which allows a man to play four years on a Pennsylvania team, no matter how long he may have played elsewhere...
...Casper Whitney reiterates his charges against Western athletics in the current number of Harper's Weekly, giving most of his attention to Minnesota. He seems to think Michigan too far gone for reform. It is a relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes...
...Casper Whitney in the current number of Harper's Weekly names the all American football eleven as follows; Brooke, University of Pennsylvania, fullback; Thorne, Yale (captain), and C. Brewer, Harvard, halfbacks; Wyck off, Cornell, quarterback; Bull, University of Pennsylvania, centre; Whatrton, University of Pennsylvania, and Riggs, Princeton, guards; Murphy, Yale, and Lea, Princeton, tackles; Gelbert, University of Pennsylvania, and Cabot, Harvard, ends. Substitutes: Woodruff, University of Pennsylvania, Beacham, Cornell, Chadwick, Yale, and Church, Princeton, in the line; Minds, University of Pennsylvania, King, West Point, Fincke, Yale, and Wrightington, Harvard, back of the line...
...last number of Harper's Weekly Casper Whitney says in speaking of the interest in rowing in the English Universities...