Word: player
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After each trick the cards shall be turned face downwards and when the trick has been thus turned and quitted, no player shall look back at any turned card...
...baseball nine will begin regular training on Feb. 9, under the direction of Roy A. Thomas, an old 'varsity player. The team will be materially weakened by the operation of a new rule, which prohibits from candidacy for the team all men who played on summer nines. It is certain that in consequence of this rule fully 75 per cent of last year's players and substitutes will be cut off. Only three of last year's men will be left. These men are Captain Blakely and outfielders Grau and Gorman. Willson, Brown and Stokes of former 'varsity nines...
...action of the Athletic Committee in the appointment of the temporary captain. The man who receives this appointment is, on account of the strong presumption thus raised, invariably elected captain. The committee's selection of any man who has shown no more than third rate ability as a player, and their passing over a man who for two years has shown himself to belong in a higher class of ability than the majority of the team would give the death blow to Harvard's hopes of success in baseball, and would nip in the bud the good resolutions...
...third rate player is chosen, talk of favoritism will at once spread over the University, and many men will be discouraged from coming out as candidates for the team. A captain who is a third rate player can not have the respect of his men; his judgment in assisting to make up the team can not be relied on; he is bound to be a failure in every way. The success of the team is of small importance. however, compared with the great principal which this election involves. The names of the candidates need not be mentioned...
...first named player has first move...