Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play, but the game now was still a very crude affair compared with the game we play. "The scrimmages were," Mr. Camp goes on to say, "simply writhing masses of vigorous kickers, and no man escaped. The rushers were not scientific enough to carry the ball along with their feet, English fashion, while pushing their way ahead through the opponents, but one and all, at the word, started forward violently kicking everything in the way. Upon the practice fields, which is in reality where the rules receive their best test, the 'varsity players were stronger and heavier than the 'scrub...
Princeton's new baseball cage is nearly completed. The original plan has been enlarged, and the cage will now measure 180x60 feet thus giving plenty of room for the nine and athletic team. The running track will be a large one with only twelve laps to the mile. To avoid interference with each other the nine will practice daily at noon, while the track athletes will train from half-past four till six o'clock...
...cage to be erected by the University of Pennsylvania will be of corrugated iron on a wooded frame, 100 feet wide by 200 long. with fifteen large wire-covered windows. A coating of white paint has been put on the interior to facilitate battery practice, while a well-made track, bath and dressing rooms will make indoor training a possibility. The cost will be $6,500 enough of which has already been subscribed to warrant immediate building...