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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game in two different ways, 'at the Wall' and 'in the Field,' the latter being a sort of mixture of both kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation as this has never yet been cast upon her. We had always thought the game as played in "the Field" at Eton was the purest form of football known, the most essentially foot ball of any. On no excuse whatever may the hands be employed, except to touch the ball, when it passes behind...
Foot ball is growing in popularity. Never before have there been so many games played in one season. Almost every college in New England, with the exception of Brown, and several outside have creditable teams...
...connection with the game on Saturday it is timely to say a few words with regard to the police. Never was there greater inefficiency displayed by any body of men detailed and exhorbitantly paid for light duty. All that was required of 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...
...University of Vermont has at last decided to learn the Rugby game of foot ball. The old fashioned game, strange to say, has never been given up in that university...
...natural interest between instructor and students, that unless a bond of sympathy exists between them. time is wasted in taking this particular course. Although we may learn much, the lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher...