Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...varsity eleven appeared yesterday in their new uniforms. The suit consists of a dark crimson, thickly knit jersey with a white "H," a canvas jacket, crimson stockings and belt, and breeches of thick mole-skin of a creamy white. These are the features of the uniform. They have a thick hair mattress padding on each knee and each hip, and cling close to the leg just below the knee. The uniforms altogether present a good appearance, although they are now a little too clean...
There is no doubt about it, a man can be more easily tackled in a jersey than in the right sort of a canvass jacket ; and theoretically, no one but quarter-back and fullback, who need the utmost freedom in using their arms, and will not rush so much, have a right to wear jerseys. On the same principle, anything like loose or torn sleeves, a belt not covered by the jacket, or a jacket that does not fit in the next and meet at the lacing, should be avoided. We hope also that the management will give a good...
...major part of the address was devoted to the duty of individuals to sacrifice their own tastes and convenience for the good of mankind. Some call the total abstinence doctrine narrow, a "moral strait jacket," but the lecturer thought differently. "I propose," said he, "to do no act, to set no example, which, if followed, may bring ruin on my fellow...
Scarcely one girl in three ventures to wear a jersey, mainly because she knows too well that this tell-tale jacket only becomes a good figure. Yet the difference in girth between the developed arm which graces a jersey and the undeveloped one which does not, in a girl of the same height and age, is seldom more than two inches, and often, even, than one, while the well-set chest outgirths the indifferent one by seldom over three inches. Among girls, running is a lost art. Yet it is doubtful if an exercise was ever devised which does more...
...Harvard University foot-ball uniform" says the Clipper, "made by Wright and Ditson, are probably the finest ever manufactured. The jackets are made of extra canvas, double-stitched and close-fitting. In the back is an elastic insertion about eight inches long and diamond-shaped, which enables the players to bend more easily than the ordinary stiff jacket will allow. In the front is a large letter "H" in crimson silk. Instead of metal eyelet protectors, which in a scrimmage often tear the fingers, the holes are worked in silk. The crimson-gray over which the jacket is worn...