Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pins are set up in a circle, the four white ones alternating with the four black, and each man has a pin to guard. The ball used is a polo ball. It is batted with a hockey stick. The object of the game is for each side to knock over with the ball the opponents' pins without stumbling over its own. The shinguards are used continually to protect the pins from the ball...
...nine hit safely; Adams did best, getting three hits out of five times at bat, and Rand got two hits out of three times at bat. Hayes had a tendency to knock up flies and was not able to get on base...
...past at Cambridge have as a rule been mere exhibitions of unscientific, brutal "slugging," degrading to the participants and spectators and disgraceful to the association under whose auspices they have been held. Contents into which athletes enter "for blood" and not infrequently come out wearing the laurels of a "knock out," are unworthy of recognition as legitimate sports, and deserve the condemnation of friends of college athletics...
...punt back. The ball was never once forced near Yale's goal, never again did Harvard enthusiasm rouse itself. Just after the fine runs by Wrightington and Brewer, Waters, who had already been hurt two or three times, was obliged to leave the field on account of a knock on the head and water on the knee. Dunlop, who took his place did very well for the few chances he had to show himself...
...style of batting at which the men have been coached lately first showed its good results yesterday. Priest, the star pitcher of the Cornells, was knocked out of the box in three innings, and his successor fared no better than he had. The 'varsity made twenty-one safe hits and there were two particularly satisfactory features of this hitting. Only eleven balls were put up in the air, and, with the exception of four strike outs and a foul tip, every other hit was on the ground. Again the men did not try to knock long hits...