Word: catching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Capt. Brooks has commenced with the right principle, - practicing one single play a number of times, and compelling a player if he makes a poor catch, or a bad pass, to try the same again and again. Thus, should he ever find himself in that position during a match, he will know just what...
...Amherst Student complains that the second Yale game was thrown away by their team. They asked to have the game called at the end of the seventh inning in order to catch a train although the prospects of their winning were very favorable...
...Yale went out in order, Foster making a splendid catch of a drive by Stewart. Harvard went out in order...
...yards his time was even 18 seconds, breaking the world's amateur record for this distance. The timers for this distance were Mr. E. E. Merrill and Mr. Lathrop. Rogers and Baker were both doing fine running, but in spite of his speed Baker could not catch Rogers, who finished between two and three yards ahead of him. Baker's time at the finish was 22 seconds. This is the world's amateur record for the distance, and is within 1-5 of a second of of the English professional record. Baker's running was superb through-out the whole...
...even though it be hard. The paper given yesterday by Mr. Wheeler was not easy; it was hard. But it was so arranged that every man who took the examination was able to show, not the poorest, but the best work of which he was capable. There were no catch questions of any sort whatever. The questions were broad, and represented every part of the work done in the course during the whole of the second half-year, and we do not commend too highly in saying that it is a model examination paper for this and other kindred courses...