Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game started by Paine's giving Corridan a base on balls and letting him get to second on an error. Corridan, however, did not score because Foss got out on a foul which Scannell caught, and Johnston and McGuire struck...
...mouths of the apologists for the game, he condemns it. They would restrain on the day of the great match the brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating through three months of training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine sportsmen"? Nor will it be any easier for men whose livelihood or fame or animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict...
...gain. Bull was here slightly injured, but resumed play. A. Brewer ran out of bounds, then Hayes was thrown by Gelbert without gain. A punt at once took the ball to Pennsylvania's 50-yard line, from which Brooke returned it. Harvard was given fifteen yards for a foul tackle...
...seven feet above the ground. The game is ordinarily played with five men on a side. Points are scored as follows: Putting the ball between two pairs of the opponents' goal pins counts ten; knocking down a goal post five; forcing the ball back under the line three; a foul by stepping over the centre line, two for the opponents; a foul by throwing the ball over the string at the rear of the court, one for the opponents...
...slip by him. The features of the game were the heavy batting of Brown and three double plays made by Harvard in the first, fifth and sixth innings. In the first, with Tenney and Steere on second and first bases Corbett made a beautiful catch of Cook's high foul. Both base runners tried to advance a base and Corbett threw to third to catch Tenney there, but he ran back to second and Cook threw to Dickinson, catching Steere at first...