Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much; but worse than all this, I have seen a lack of courage. There has been one man on the Yale team that has put to rout the Harvard players whenever he approached; and when in a tussle two men are down, the cowards are ready enough to jump on the pile. If irregularities occur, I believe they are due to want of pluck, and that that want is encouraged by the weak cry of brutality when any one gets hurt. I will go further and say that I have not unfrequently examined foot ball players during the playing season...
...with our heartiest approval. The sooner a committee sets to work to effect the desired changes in the rules the better Moreover, we hope that when the meeting is held, and men are nominated for positions on the amendment committee they will consent to stand as candidates and not jump up with that surprising alacrity which characterizes some men when their names are mentioned for office, to beg leave to decline the nomination. If all men who are nominated stand, there will be an opportunity to elect the best men. Let there be a full meeting, let all possible candidates...
...contained many valuable geological and scientific collections, besides laboratories and other rooms. The loss will probably be over $200,000, and there is but $40,000 of insurance. Several students risked their lives to save the various collections, and it is said that some of them were compelled to jump from the top windows to escape a fiery death...
...indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Club will take place at the gymnasium wither on the 13th or 20th of this month. The events will be as follows: Rumming high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, parallel bars, horizontal bars, fencing, fence baud, putting sling, Indian clubs, and middle, high and teacher weight sparring...
...them was to keep the grounds ciear of non-paying spectators and to see that the audience did not encroach upon the limits of the playing field. What did they do ? Several of them stood aimlessly about at one side of the field and allowed the crowd to jump over the ropes and towards the last of the match even stand within the fair lines so that several times they interfered with players running for fair balls. When appealed to to keep the people back they did so in such a listless, dont-care manner that the crowd paid scarcely...