Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Through sleet and snow very few men made their dreary way to Jarvis Field, yesterday afternoon, to see the University and Freshman elevens busily engaged in practice. The snow was about two inches deep and very slippery, while the sleet blew in the faces and hands of the men, making...
The freshman cries for justice. The idea that the details of the torchlight rush have been presented solely from a sophomoric point of view fills his ardent soul with envy and he calls aloud that his deeds may be set forth in undying print for the benefit of posterity and...
In their broad principles the Eton and Association games have no very material difference. But whereas in the latter the game is begun by a free "kick-off," and the ball, when it passes out of play, except behind the goal lines, is thrown in at will by a player...
Ranged in similar fashion the foe charges down on the ball, and then commences a struggle till the ball is either forced through the goal posts by one side, or carried by the other away from that dangerous vicinity back into the enemy's country. This is the roughest part...
In any game of foot ball shins, of course, will suffer, and here and there a collarbone perchance will snap. But the very spirit of the Eton game lends itself less to hard kicking than do others. Skill more than brute force is required to run a ball down neatly...