Word: catching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale still forced the fighting and kept the ball on Princeton's ground. Both sides did considerable kicking (the ball I mean), Wallace and Pratt both watching the Princeton halves like cats. Princeton braced up a little at this point. Cowan gained fifteen yards and Wurtemberg made a fair catch on Yales ten-yard line. Woodruff then made the run of the game, gaining twenty-five yards. But when throw he could not rise and Rhodes was called to take his place. During the rest of the game Princeton kept the fighting in Yale's territory, and certainly finished stronger...
...that we are to have two a week during this good running weather, why might we not have an occasional fast hunt? On some of the runs it has been very disagreeable, and even dangerous, for the fast runners to be obliged to wait continually for slow men to catch up. I think there will be a large attendance at a fast hunt if the Association will only organize...
...second half opened in a very uninteresting manner. The rushers on both sides were poor. Germer in attempting to make a fair catch collided with Devens and lost the ball. Bancroft got it and passed to Bradle, who made a touchdown. Perry failed to kick the goal. The playing now seemed to be without any snap. Harvard blocked very poorly and repeatedly failed to get touchdowns even when within 20 feet of the line. At last the ball was kicked over the Tech line and Slocum managed to fall on it first. Then Perry tried for a goal but failed...
...must be careful to catch up with the boat, and should row longer...
...which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily hit a catch, yet with a moderate amount of care he can hit a full-pitched ball not only easily, but safely. Now the English cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball game they were watching, and yet to their astonishment quite a considerable proportion of these balls were missed...