Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...characteristic of the game as played this year than as played in previous years. It is also true that interference has added much to the interest of the game from a spectator's standpoint, and a great many real lovers of the game would be sorry to see it forbidden. There is one species of offside play, however, which we will all agree should be abolished, and that is interference with the ball while it is being put in play. The rushers are allowed entirely too much license in this respect now, and the result is disagreeable and unnecessary delay...
...faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute has forbidden the playing of football...
...rules under which the university crew is now training are not strict. Smoking and drinking are forbidden. No hour is specified for going to bed, but permission must be obtained of the captain if a candidate finds it necessary to remain up later than theatre hour...
...action taken by the Athletic committee in regard to the men who were responsible for the disgraceful conduct of the freshman nine at New London last May, will be approved by all. The captain and one other man have been forbidden to take part in any future college athletic contest. The penalty is severe, but in our opinion the offence deserved no lighter punishment. The action of the committee is important even at this late day, for it voices the disapproval expressed so manimously by the college last spring. It will, furthermore, effectually prewent any repetition of the matter...
...treaty is disgraceful to our diplomacy, because: (a) the "three-mile limit" in the case of bays is made to be five miles; (b) we are forbidden to enter eleven bays each more than ten miles in width; (c) the municipal dominion of Canada over these great bays is thus increased; (d) our fishermen are prevented from entering bays where the channel is less than three miles from shore...