Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Smith, the Yale student who was recently arrested and fined for swindling, is the player who in Harvard's game with Yale last spring made the remarkable fielding catch of Coolidge's long fly, and thus contributed so largely to Yale's success in the game...
...direct conclusion was reached in the discussion over the limit of time during which a player might remain a member of the university team; but, finally, it was voted to leave the matter to the discretion of the delegates to the inter-collegiate foot-ball convention shortly to be held to determine the proper limit...
...Butler, Jr., '83, with Mr. Woodman, of Jamacia Plain, won the first prize in the doubles. In the tournament at Newport, the first week in September, for the championship of the United States, R. D. Sears, '83, won the first prize in the singles, and the same player, together with Dr. Dwight of Boston, won the first prize in the doubles...
...feet 6 inches. The decision was arrived at after discussion, in hopes of discouraging the volleying which has to a great extent taken the place of the return from the back of the court after the first bound of the ball. The effect will be to give a player who can place the return more opportunity of playing the ball on one or the other side of an antagonist who stands in the middle of the court prepared to volley...
...committee was elected as follows : F. M. Eaton, Yale, chairman; W. F. Morgan, Columbia, secretary; E. T. Cabot, Harvard, and E. P. Morgan, Princeton. The principal subject the convention considered was doing away with the "block game." The following amendments to the rules were adopted : To Rule 5 - "No player having received the ball from one of his own side shall put it in his own touch-in-goal, under penalty of a safety touch." To Rule 7 add - "No sticky or greasy substance can be used on the person of the players" Rule 18 - "A player may throw...