Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harold C. Ernst, the famous ball player, is a candidate for the degree...
...ulna and radius is imperfect, thus causing a constant angle at the elbow. When, therefore, the racket hits a ball, it tends to knock it high up in the air. Some have said that this defect is the chief in causing the female to be a poor tennis player. The smallness of her ribs, thinness of the scapula, and shortness of the clavicle unite to prevent her from reaching high balls. These defects, together with the unusually large size of the triceps extensor muscle, make it hard for the female to serve successfully. Were it not for these anatomical peculiarities...
...fear of this professionalism has carried them. It is a well known fact that our base-ball nine made a failure of its last season, although it started out with the brightest prospects, simply from the lack of professional training. Although other colleges had the advantage of a professional player in training their pitchers and their batsmen, we were compelled to play through the season without having had the least preliminary training. The result was shown by the scores. Although our nine led the colleges in her fielding average and five Harvard men led in their respective positions...
...game of foot-ball will be played between two college teams of Yale next Tuesday, representing Farnum and Durfee dormitories. The requisites for candidacy are that every player should be in total ignorance of all rules of foot-ball...
Shortly after the game was started one of our half backs sent the ball rolling into Stevens' ground, closely followed by Adams who promptly tackled the player attempting to stop it, and Bonsal rescuing the ball made a touchdown, from which Biddle kicked a goal...