Word: play
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three hours per day. The training moreover, is not so severe as to make the time devoted to study of less value to members of teams than to other students. The only time, therefore, which can reasonably be considered wasted is that consumed in travelling by the teams which play outside of Cambridge...
Yale will play her first baseball game in New Haven, April 3. The opponents are the Norwalks...
About twenty-five candidates for the university nine attended the meeting in Captain Willard's room last evening. Of last year's nine only four are now in college. They are Willard, first base; Henshaw, catcher; Howland, right field, and Quackenboss, third base. It is doubtful whether Quackenboss will play this year. The other candidates and the positions for which they are trying are as follows: Pitcher, Luce, '91, McLeod, '90, and Hawley, '89; catcher, Hale, L. S. S., Bell, '92; second base, Mumford, '90, Evans, sp., McCoy, '90, Wood, sp., Talbot, '89, Babbitt, '91; third base, Barney, '90; shortstop...
...prospects of the team for this year are far from promising as only four of last year's men will play. If there are any men in college who can play lacrosse at all they are earnestly requested to come out and try for the eleven. As soon as the examinations are over the captain will put the candidates to a vigorous training, and every effort will be made to sustain the reputation which lacrosse has so nobly held for so many years...
...last number of the Auburn was an article by Walter C. Camp on football. Mr. Camp traces the growth or evolution of the game until the time when Harvard carried out the idea of learning to play under the Rugby rules, and contesting with the Canadian teams which played by those rules. Then followed Harvard's effort to introduce this game in the other colleges, and particularly in Yale. Much opposition was met; but "in 1874 Yale began to yield, and in the following year her delegates met those from Harvard, and, after a stormy session, a combination was effected...