Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of skaters held in 20 Stoughton on Tuesday evening was attended by about twenty-five men, who showed considerable interest in the plan. It was decided to be advisable to form a Harvard Hockey Club. The following officers were elected: President, E, V. Abbot, '86; vice-president, G. Hopkins, '88; secretary and treasurer, G. E. Howes, '86. No other business of importance was transacted and the meeting adjourned. By this meeting another club is added to the long list of clubs already existing in the college. The coming winter will, no doubt, give the young club an opportunity...
...Harvard, was played at New Haven, on Saturday. Spectators to the number of 2000 were gathered on Yale's new athletic grounds to witness the match. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who had come on with ladies form New York, Boston and elsewhere. The conditions for a foot ball match were almost perfect. There was no wind, the air was mild and the ground was more than fair...
There will be a meeting of the committee chosen to form plans for a permanent track committee, at 1 Grays, Friday...
...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 of the side opposing him who kicked it out, in the former the game begins by a "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...
...play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation as this has never yet been cast upon her. We had always thought the game as played in "the Field" at Eton was the purest form of football known, the most essentially foot ball of any. On no excuse whatever may the hands be employed, except to touch the ball, when it passes behind the goal lines, to save or get a "rouge." Even the rules of the Association game, which may be described as a sort...