Word: gentlement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that one of our men was ruled off for precisely the same fault. If foot-ball players cannot obey the rules set down by the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association, those rules provide that such players shall be ruled off the field. It is all very well for these gentlement to claim that the foul tackle was an accident, or did not happen at all, but it is a poor excuse to attribute the loss of the same to the decision of a referee who is an acklowledged authority on matters pertaining to foot-ball. As a matter of fact...
...sure, nothing very serious has happened as yet, but, if any license is allowed for bovish pranks and undignified conduct, there is no limit to which this abuse may not extend. It would be a pity for visitors in the gallery to witness anything unbecoming the conduct of gentlement in the strictest sense...