Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITOR OF DAILY CRIMSON: - I feel somewhat diffident about suggesting the formation of a new club, but I have thought of one which offers to the students a pleasant and inexpensive exercise. I mean a hockey club...
...Hockey, or hawkey, as it was originally spelt, is an old English game. It is played in this country to a limited extent, but not so much as it deserves. When played on ice, the only place where all its possibilities can be brought out, it is fully the peer of football or lacrosse. It requires as much quickness of eye and hand and I may say foot, as either of the games mentioned, but at the same time a learner can enjoy it as well as an old hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict...
...more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...
...former schoolmate of Gladstone at Eton says: "I recall him as a good looking, rather delicate youth, with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy and well-dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...