Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are a number of changes in the football rules this season, which tend to change the game in several directions. The new rules have been framed with the idea of bringing about a more open game and eliminating those features which were thought to be a detriment to the sport...
Harvard has been the first to lay emphasis on the idea that college athletic games should be played on college grounds. It is interesting to see that the principle has met approval elsewhere. We are not ourselves convinced that the principle is altogether feasible: it is certainly best, all things considered, to select such grounds as will give gate receipts large enough to make private subscriptions to the teams unnecessary; and tie games cannot well be played on the grounds of either of the competing teams...
Although no absolutely correct idea of the relative strength of the different college nines can be obtained from a comparison of the games played, the following table may be of some interest. Brown has practically finished her series. Yale plays her deciding game with Princeton tomorrow and will probably not play off the tie with Pennsylvania. Harvard has still her Yale games to play. It must be remembered that Harvard has played the last three games under unfortunate conditions...
...illustrated by the actions of the West End on Harvard street. The third editorial succeeds in covering a page with a plan for a required course in athletics. It is a little fanciful, but need cause no anxiety as there can be no immediate prospect of seeing the idea incorporated. The ninth chapter of Harvard types is a description of "The Man Who Knows Everybody," by Knoblauch. It is really good and most of us can appreciate the force of it. It is a trifle overdone, but by the exaggeration the point is only the more clearly brought...
...wished to go on with the game from the point where they had stopped. The latter said that either the third inning must be played over or a new game started. No agreement could be reached and the teams left the field. The spectators were naturally disgusted at the idea of paying their money and seeing no game. There was not however, as has been reported an attempt to destroy the ticket office. The rumor was probably caused by a trick of three small boys, who having collected a vast crowd outside the entrance by calling "rain-checks," satisfied those...