Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia College has taken another step forward, and this time it is to allow the admission of women to its higher courses...
...elevens to play matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there are a good many enthusiasts on the game in the city who were formerly Association players. They have been bobbing up one after another, until a goodly number have come forward to take hold of the sport. Unless all signs fail, the coming spring will see some foot-ball matches in Boston as played in England...
Priest was centre forward for the Wolyerhampton Wanderers, four times winners over the famous Astor Villas, who are now holders of the English challenge cup. In talking about the game, he said: "You must never pick the ball up with your hands, but you must carry it along just the same. If the ground is good, you can keep the ball on the ground and still take it down the field and still take it down the field by dribbling it along, dodging around the players on the other side as they get in front of you. If the ground...
...finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with the cold, in spite of these things-I say, the unanimous verdict is that everyone had a fine time, and everyone would look forward with eager anticipation to the day when the Pierian Sodality shall again play for the fair maids of Wellesley...
...upon the use of skilful men, with a neglect of balancing their team well, and it was through paying little or no attention to the style of game they must meet in their opponents, they found themselves too light to successfully check the heavy rushing. The weakness of their forward line left too much tackling for the halves, who in turn were so used up by this tackling, that they had no strength to show their skill when the time came...