Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exercise can be recommended to the hard student? He has, perhaps, no knack for games; the weights and bars are to him as cheerful as a treadmill; he can not afford a horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct, and the gaudium certaminis a stimulant-almost...
...head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish the fact that our popular games give more employment to the right arm than to the left...
...team. He plays a strong, aggressive game, and is not afraid of trying to stop a steam engine. He has a trick of leaping high in the air and stopping many low punts which might otherwise go half way down the field. Woodruff and Gill, the right and left guards, are both crew men and are exceptionally strong and active. The two remaining positions in the line are filled by Carter and Cross. The ormer is a crew man, and the latter was a substitute. The rush line, as a whole, is rather above the average weight, and most...
...Woodman, left guard, fumbles badly. Very weak at blocking. Tackles and runs hard...
...Wood, left tackle, has a sore foot, but will be out again before many days...