Word: heading
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then again it would probably stimulate kicking, and especially long passes toward the ends as well as end running. The wedge play is not all brute force. The large college teams showed them as models of skill and clever head work. The wedge should stay in football, but a provision of some kind should insure a necessity of other play during a contest. It ought to be a possible play, but not all the play, and legislation which will induce the captain for the interest of his team to use other plays as well, is the legislation that will...
...grounders has been left in the gymnasium unfloored. Stagg bats down grounders to the candidates in succession. The players are taught the utmost quickness both in stopping the ball and in recovery, then accurately and swiftly to return it underhanded and overhanded. Much attention is given to base-sliding, head foremost as well as feet foremost, and to sliding around and in front of the base. A cage, consisting of cord netting suspended from the ceiling and enclosing a space 70 by 30 feet, will be put in position in a week or two for battery work...
...have been and always should be on the best of terms. He then points out some of the erroneous impressions of the Russian government that are largely due to Mr. Kennan's writings. The poetry of the number is not remarkable with the exception of the verses "On a Head of Christ by Quintin Matsys" by Bessie Chandler. The illustrations of the number are unusually good, most noteworthy being a picture of Lord Tennyson, a portrait of Franz Liszt after Munkacsy's painting, and "Purity" from the painting by William Thorne...
Every gymnasium has a principal appointed by the government, who has the complete management and control of the whole school, and is responsible only to the head officer of education of his district. He has under him a corps of about a dozen instructors, two in each branch. There are usually two overseers in each gymnasium whose duty it is to keep watch over the students and to see that the rules of the institution are obeyed. Each student recites about once in two months and on thee recitations alone his mark is based. It his work is unsatisfactory...
...finch - for it is one of the finch family - is about the size of a Robin but of stouter build, with short neck. a round head and thick strong bill. The colors vary with age and sex. In immaturity the prevailing tints are yellowish brown, or bronze as it as often termed, and ash or slate gray. Mature females are of a rich yellowish bronze and ash while old males wear a rosy tint which sometimes changes to deep carmin, on head, rump and breast...