Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last the rules of the game are adequate. The rights of the player are now protected as well as defined, and the matches can be decided always on the merits of the game, and the result put beyond dispute. The umpire scheme has proved a wonderful success. The new official has been able to protect the game against foul plays through his power to enforce the penalties the rules prescribe. All the displays of temper in this year's three great matches are to be counted on the thumbs, and were summary punished and atoned...
...umpire-referee system has supplied an executive for the enforcement of the rules and the rights of every player are reasonably assured. It is by this time an axiom with players that the manifestation of temper is a practical acknowledgment of the superiority of opponents...
...exigencies that retarded Princeton's preparation, will be appreciated on considering that in no two games during the autumn could the same rush line be played. Never the less Princeton was confident of defeating both Yale and Harvard-until she met her last surprises of a loss of another player in her first big game, and of a "Yale weather" day upon her second. But Princeton's discouragement has ended with her disappointment...
...During the last two years of his gymnasium course, he finds it necessary to have miniature "commerce" or drinking bouts. The boy who downs the greatest number of glasses of beer becomes the pet of the class much in the same way that in America the best foot-ball player becomes the hero of his schoolmates...
...were encored by the audience. The "Waltz from Serenade" by the string instruments of the Pierian was well executed. Mr. Longworth, '91, concluded Part I by a very fine exhibition of violin playing. His work was remarkably skilful and finished, and he gives promise of becoming a very strong player...