Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...common talk that spring practice is of value only to the coaches and captain, but every moment spent in practice will bring the Harvard team so much closer to Yale's goal line. The essentials of a modern football player are, briefly: to run, tackle, interfere, kick, pass, and catch. Each year the team has been handicapped by men who could not do some of these simple things. The only way Harvard can hope to attain a proper degree of proficiency is to work and practice until the various required rudiments can be done well...
...crews were hampered in their work by the high, cold winds. Rowing up to the Watertown Arsenal in short stretches, the time in the University boat was poor; the men rushed their slides, and did not catch together. Coming back to the boathouse with the wind behind them, their work improved considerably...
...last relay. Boyle, Pennsylvania's last runner, passed him on the first lap, but Jaques resumed the lead on the second. Boyle again passed Jaques and held the lead for the third and fourth laps. On the straightaway of the last lap, Jaques made a desperate effort to catch Boyle, and in the last 20 yards got the pole, and the two struck the tape almost together, Boyle winning by a matter of two or three inches...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee yesterday, several minor changes in the rules were decided upon. Only two of these will have a direct influence upon the game, the others being mainly with regard to duties of officials. These are: (1) A player turning to catch a forward pass must not be tackled until he has caught the ball; (2) if the ball, while in play, hits an official, it shall not be declared dead, but play shall continue...
...commercial side of the enterprise until the national theatre and the national drama are so firmly established in popular favor and comprehension as to pay their own way. Another duty is to provide machinery for keeping alive such plays of literary value and artistic workmanship as may not immediately catch the ear of the great public, but which yet have signs of future life and growth in them. Again, it is plainly the duty of a national theatre to give performances of the classical masterpieces of the language. Once more, it is the duty of a national theatre to give...