Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down to New Haven. We do not believe there will be any great difficulty in getting this number of names; in fact we should be very much surprised if only forty-nine men went. The foot ball team has worked hard this year, harder, perhaps, than in any former year. The chances against them have been difficult to overcome, but no one will deny that they have struggled manfully, although unsuccessful, to overcome them. The more important the game, the better the team plays. We have only to think of the gallant fight made in the Princeton game, to assure...
...meeting the executive committee of the Base Ball Association, it was decided to change the uniform of the University nine in some respects. In place of the gray blouse worn in former years, a crimson and black striped blazer has been substituted, and a crimson and black striped cap, the same as the Cricket Eleven's, in place of the gray hat, The change was made by request of most of the players, who claimed that they had great difficulty in keeping the hats on their heads, and it also interfered in their judgment of high fly balls...
...hard fought athletic contests, in which Princeton men have participated. Here he found the 'Varsity foot ball team hard at work with the Freshmen eleven. At first sight he was struck with the disparity in size between the men who compose this year's eleven and those of the former years. The playing of the team, as a whole, lacked unity. Every man seems to play for himself. This is especially noticeable among the forwards. The great fault with the playing of the rash line, as it appeared to your correspondent, was not blocking hard enough, and not playing sharp...
...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 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...
...about the Lord's, or tug away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care as for cricket ; nay, it is whispered that professional players for the former are almost as much in demand as for the latter game, and get pretty nearly as well paid-which rumour, we may observe, if it be true, is a direct infraction of that rule of the association which enacts that "Any member of a Club receiving remuneration or consideration...