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...number playing varied from 10 to 15 on a side according to how many came out for the afternoon's play. It was played with a round ball and started with a kick-off. An off-side player was called a "lurker" if he were not in motion. If in motion he could take part in the play like an on side man. Fair play was strictly and voluntarily adhered to by every player...

Author: By James L. Knox, | Title: McGill Huskies Feted in Champagne After First Intercollegiate Struggles | 11/14/1935 | See Source »

...midnight lurker saw this cemetery scene, took the motor license, notified police. Police would not reveal the names of the gravediggers other than to say that they were a Newark official, his sister with whom he lives, and a complaisant undertaker. Their explanation: they had buried Sport, 6. Irish terrier, family pet, whom their late mother, like a pagan warrior, had wished to keep beside her through eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Through Eternity | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...leader, continuing to live in an atmosphere redolent of ninety-five per cent, sowing at once the seeds of knowledge as to the mind and consumption as to the body. Muffin takes Fumbler's old position on the nine, and to Crab and Warnings naturally succeed Feather and Lurker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUGHTS ABOUT FRESHMEN. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...always agreeable. A hundred and fifty or two hundred young men and boys, strangers to each other and dissimilar in taste and habit, are thrown together toward the last of September; long before the middle of October, through some mysterious chemical reaction, the Freshman class has begun to be. Lurker and Nightoil and I' Evy still vegetate as individuals, but each has a more important and engrossing existence; he is a Freshman. An undefinable Freshmanhood has obscured all the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUGHTS ABOUT FRESHMEN. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

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