Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WRESTLING.This was the most interesting contest in the wrestling events. It was well contested, and not so very even as to be wearisome. F. S. Churchill, '86, 138 1-2 lbs., and W. Austin, '87, 139 1-2 lbs,, contested the first bout. Churchill is shorter and far more muscular, but he lacked science. Austin showed considerable science, but not enough strength to secure a single fall. Churchill soon threw Austin, who formed a beautiful bridge, and succeeded in turning on to his stomach before Churchill could make either of his hips touch the mattress. Another throw made by Churchill...
...degree, the boat club had probably less to do with my catastrophe than I flattered myself with imagining. In my evenings it was my delight to go down to the gymnasium and see Blake put up the dumb-bell, and to listen to his discourses upon matters of muscular interest. Somehow or other he always seemed to know more about these things than any of us; and he was inspired by a strenuous missionary spirit, persuasive enough almost to make an oarsman out of a humpback, or a sprint-runner out of a cripple...
...boats have developed into very different looking craft. Outriggers, sliding seats, self-acting rowlocks and steering sails, have all been successfully added, with divers other refinements of the boatbuilder's art; but the science of rowing remains after all, essentially the same, and the same bodily shape and muscular conformation are still usually to be observed in the most successful oarsmen. If we could confine our attention solely to the great clubs and the two universities, there would be little cause for finding fault with amateur sculling or rowing. Unfortunately, the prospect is by no means so limited...
...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...
When the English residents of Lisbon and Oporto started cricket in Portugal years ago, the new game excited great wonder among the natives, the Portuguese people, who find no pleasure in athletic sports or in muscular exercise generally, being puzzled at the idea of wealthy people engaging in such laborious work. On the occasion of the first match at Lisbon between the two clubs, the Lisbon Journal thus reported...