Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Trafford has never rowed a race. He was a freshman foot-ball player, and last fall was right guard of the university eleven...
...appear to be forcing the season in making a suggestion to the Lawn Tennis Association before the snow on the ground is melted, never-theless it will be but a few weeks before the courts on Holmes and Jarvis will be ready for use. That great inconvenience to players, the absence of backnets, was removed last year, but there is yet one little fault which everyone would be glad to see remedied. It is well known what a bore it is to pay in cash the man who has charge of the courts, for if one does not forgot...
...Boston, have organized for the coming season, and will play their usual game with Harvard, probably on Fast Day. This club stands at the head of all the amateur nines in the country, and is in fact purely amateur, as no pay whatever has ever been given to a player, even for a single game. Many of the members are college-graduates and interest is kept up during the winter by monthly dinners. It used to be said that the club never played two games in a season with exactly the same nine, but this year the men will play...
...flags will be blue, fringed with gold. It will bear the inscription, "1887 College Base-Ball League Championship, won by Yale." Underneath these words will be the player's name and his position on the team. The other flag will be of three colors, crimson, orange and blue, with the names Harvard, Princeton and Yale printed in a gold scroll. Above the name of each college will be number games won, and below the number of games lost, by that college...
Rule 35, in regard to interference, to prohibit a player who is off-side to use his hands and arms in warding...