Word: grounde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...last report of your committee recorded the generous offer of the government of His Majesty, the King of the Hellenes, to confer upon the American School at Athens the site for a building near the plot of ground bestowed upon the British school...
...accepted, with the thanks of the committee, and Mr. S. B. P. Trowbridge, a graduate of Trinity College and of the School of Mines of Columbia College, was appointed to take charge of the erection of the building under Professor Ware's direction. Mr. Trowbridge proceeded to Athens, and ground was broke in the autumn. The corner-stone of the new building was laid on March 12, 1887, with appropriate ceremonies, a full account of which will be given in the forthcoming bulletin of Professor D'Ooge, who was then director. The building will be ready for occupation in January...
...southern slope of Mount Lycabettus, about fifteen minutes' walk from the centre of the city, is an open reservation about a quarter of a mile square, partly laid out as public grounds, partly occupied by public buildings. Here on the western side is the hospital Evangelion, and higher up the hill a plot of ground for a Normal School, the building for which has not yet been erected. On the eastern side is the old monastery of the Asomaton, now occupied as officers' barracks, standing picturesquely in the midst of trees, one of the few groves in Attica, the successor...
...Yale was the best generaled team in the field. In meeting Princeton, they played their heavy runners with only an occasional kick when forced, but when they met the heavy charging of Harvard, they stubbornly fought the ground inch by inch, and never used their best runners until they had driven the ball by a kick well down. In this way they had ever a strong fresh man for a dash up the goal, and an almost infallible kicker to send the ball skimming over...