Word: picks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time has there been better material in the College from which to pick an Inter-Collegiate team, and with proper training Columbia should undoubtedly be represented by men competent to win the Inter-Collegiate cup.- [Acta Columbiana...
...especially guilty in this particular. Falling on the ball has gone almost out of practice here, this year, on the university side, and in consequence they rarely get hold of a ball which is on the ground. The same may be said of the scrimmages. The desire to pick up the ball on the run, and thus make a brilliant play out weighs all ideas of safe if not conspicuous playing...
...poorly, one Rutgers halfback making a touchdown through the whole Yale rush line. They ought to have scored only 40 points, but the Rutgers back, a little man who was scared to death, when the ball was kicked over the back line, would walk up to the ball and pick at it with his hands drawing it away. As soon as he had touched it Yale dropped on it and made a touchdown...
...have been the work of some one who it intimately acquainted with the interior arrangements of the Gymnasium and with the habits of the students who use it. It would have been absolutely impossible for any outsider to enter the building, obtain the proper key from the keyboard, and pick out the particular locker in which these valuables were deposited. The locker must have been opened by some one who knew that it was the custom of the owner to leave his purse and watch in the cupboard, while he was at exercise. Since, then, it appears so clearly that...
When the ball is on the ground the men are so anxious to pick it up and run with it, that they generally fail to secure it. They must fall on it more and they must get it well in their arms, not expect to get a down with merely one or both hands on the ball ; the referee wont see it quickly enough...