Word: player
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...form that the leader in each list will hold his position only against continual competition. All men on the list, except the first ranking ten, can challenge at any time the man three places above him on the list. In the first ten any man can challenge the player next above him. Thus a continual competition results and a consequent instability of the rank lists...
Talbot Hunter, a Canadian player and former coach at Cornell, has been appointed to take charge of the Yale hockey team...
Freshman hockey practice was regularly begun yesterday when the yearling squad reported at the Hill Pond at Arlington. L. M. Lombard '17, a former University player acted as coach for the squad of about 35 men. Practice for the afternoon consisted mainly of passing and shooting and other fundamentals of the game, no scrimmage or team play being attempted...
...server wins the first point, the score is called 1-in, if the receiver wins the first point, the score is 1-out, when each player wins a point the score is called 1-all. The play is continued in this manner until either player has won four points, when the game is called for that player unless his opponent has three points. The score is then called 4-3 or 3-4 as the case may be, and the game is scored for the player who first thereafter gains a lead of two points." The new system will overcome...
Another instance of the simplification of tennis that has been proposed by the committee is the revision of the handicapping system. The new method of handicapping will consist of allotting to each player one or more points in a set, and these points will be added to the points made by the player in the entire set. The points won in each game are added together and to this is added the allotted handicap. The player then having the greater number of points wins the set, regardless of the number of games won or lost...