Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blow in the face in the Harvard-Princeton game, in the Harvard-Yale game, in the Yale-Princeton game. In the Westeyan-Pennsylvania game a man was thrown unfairly, out of bounds, by an opposing player. Then, as he was rising, but before he was on his feet, his antagonist turned, struck him in the face and knocked him down, and returned in triumph with the ball...
...boss election bonfire was made at Princeton. The pile was forty feet high, with several barrels of tar poured...
...executive committee of the Berlin students posted a notice on the bulletin board during the past semester requesting the discontinuance of the habit of scraping and stamping the feet on the arrival and departure of the professor, and advised instead the practice in vogue elsewhere of rising and standing during the entrance and exit of a favorite instructor. Student custom in Germany varies somewhat in this respect. The professor usually comes in after his audience is assembled and generally leaves before the others withdraw. In many places his coming and going receive no attention unless he be advanced...
...bully" formed opposite the point where it passed out of play. On either side are a "post" and two "sides," with others to back them up. These form down opposite each other, alternately under and over as at "the wall," and the ball is placed between their feet. This bully is mostly but a momentary affair, and the ball, if not carried through by superior weight, is turned out almost at once to one of the "corners." Behind the bully stand the "flying man," the "long-behind," and the "goals," and sometimes a player is taken from the bully...
...goal-keeper may in defence of his post make use of his hands in any way save in carrying the ball ; he may stop it with them, or hit it away. But in the Eton field even that last resource is denied ; even in the sorest straits, by the feet, and by the feet alone, must the goal be saved.-[Review...