Word: pick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thing is sure, and that is, that Harvard's prospects have never be so good for putting a strong team in the field, and back of this there is a great deal of enthusiasm manifested in cricket throughout the whole university. Harvard has more material from which to pick her team this year than we have, and this fact of having an abundance of good material has often helped the Crimson on to victory. The old adage, 'there's safety in numbers,' never applied to anything so forcibly as to athletics. The eleven is going to find a strong rival...
Rule 12 to be amended so that in a scrimmage the player putting the ball in play cannot pick it up after setting it in motion until it touches a third man, when the ball is kicked forward as well as when it is snapped back. The opposing centre-rush to count as the second man when the ball is kicked forward. This prevents the centre-rush from picking up the ball from his own kick in the scrimmage...
Priest was centre forward for the Wolyerhampton Wanderers, four times winners over the famous Astor Villas, who are now holders of the English challenge cup. In talking about the game, he said: "You must never pick the ball up with your hands, but you must carry it along just the same. If the ground is good, you can keep the ball on the ground and still take it down the field and still take it down the field by dribbling it along, dodging around the players on the other side as they get in front of you. If the ground...
...Saturday evening, it decided by a vote of 3 to 1 that the play of Corbin, the Yale centre-rush in the Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgving Day, was perfectly proper and in accordance with the rules of the game. The point made by Harvard was that Corbin had picked up the ball and rushed with it before another man had touched it, thereby breaking rule 29, which says that the snapper back or the man opposite him shall not pick out the ball with the hand until it has touched a third man. The committee voted...
...wicket with much prospect of coming off victor. Haverford, Columbia and Harvard, however, often put fine elevens in the field, and it would probably give a great impulse to one of the most beneficial and least objectionable of college pastimes if Yale should now accept the Harvard challenge, pick out a team of cricketers, and with the opening of spring begin field practice in earnest...