Word: holding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Athletic Association will hold a tug-of-war contest for the championship of America in Brooklyn on Feb. 21st...
...Upsilon Club will hold its first annual banquet in New York, at the Hotel Brunswick, on the evening...
...three years for his class team and played in the field in several 'Varsity games last year. He is a careful fielder and a hard but not very sure hitter. Osborne played behind the bat on his class nine and is probably the only man in college who can hold Dann's switt pitching. His strongest point, however, is at first base, which he is able to cover easily. He has played more or less in the field, but is not a very sure man outside of the diamond. McClintock, '90, played right field in two of the championship games...
...matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there are a good many enthusiasts on the game in the city who were formerly Association players. They have been bobbing up one after another, until a goodly number have come forward to take hold of the sport. Unless all signs fail, the coming spring will see some foot-ball matches in Boston as played in England...
...take hold of a player it's a foul. You can shoulder him and shove him over, but you must not touch him with your hands. And it's a foul, too, if the ball hits your arm below the elbow. The great point about the Association game is that it is not so rough as the Rugby. Of course you cannot play foot-ball without being a bit rough, but it is not nearly so bad as Rugby...