Word: gamely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructor in a great preparatory school, and resumed connection with Princeton College as a graduate student several weeks after the work of the year had begun. The other entered Princeton College for the first time, as a special student, only a short time before the Princeton-Harvard game on Nov. 16, which was the first game in which either of them played. The natural, although perhaps mistaken, inference is that these gentlemen were brought to Princeton to play football The inference is strengthened in the one case by the engrossing nature of the duties of an instructor in a large...
...constitute professionalism, which is a habit." A second member of the team, Mr. George, had been since the beginning of the present college year, and is now a salaried teacher of field sports and other subjects in a preparatory school. A third member, Mr. Wagenhurst, who played in the games in the earlier part of the season, including a championship game, had been a member of a professional baseball team. At a meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the American Intercollegiate Football Association, held in New York, on Nov. 4, 1889, a rule was passed that no professional athlete...
...game. Cambridge...
...season of 1889 has been a successful one for football. The game has not only grown in popular favor, but there has been a marked improvement in the general playing. The scores made in the intercollegiate league show this development in the playing of all the teams, and a tendency on the part of all to play an aggressive game. Last year the winning elevens, in almost every case, shut out their opponents, and Yale did not have a point scored against her during the entire season; but this year the stronger teams have not been able to prevent...
...discussing this style of play takes grounds against it, alleging that it is a kind of off side play, that it leads to personal contact of players not having the ball and hence to slugging; and that it has not been made necessary by the natural growth of the game, but is a radical departure from the true theory of the game. In the face of this it cannot be denied that the game has this year been comparatively free form slugging, and it may be doubted whether with a competent umpire this disagreeable feature would be any more characteristic...