Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball is properly put in play, and that the ball is so put in play either by a kick forward or a snap back; and that the snapper back, therefore, can kick the ball forward, pick it up, and run with it before it has been touched by another player...
CHESS TOURNAMENT.- It has been found necessary to divide the players into three sections as follows- 1, H. A. Davis, R. W. Herrick, N. Hapgood, J. Bridge, G. W. Pearson, R. D. Brown, R. C. Harrison; 2, H. Webster, T. S. Tailer, S. W. Sturgis, R. S. Hale, J. Crane, G. B. Woomer, H. M. Paul: 3, S. C. Brackett, W. C. Green, C. W. Spencer. J. O. Powers, B. A. Gould, K. Brown, T. W. Balch. Each player will play one game with every other in his section, and the players making the two highest scores in each section...
...this city; but, entering college in the following autumn, he shared in the first of many victories in November, 1876. Since that time his efforts and wise counsel have always been at the service of the team. When he was in college he was not only an admirable player, but he dignified the game by infusing into it skill, strategy and generalship surprising those unacquainted with the facts. Many a glorious victory for the blue has been planned as carefully and thoroughly as a general plans a campaign. The second reason, somewhat akin to the first, is found...
...team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very end of the match. As to the decision of the referee, it surpasses in unfairness anything we have ever seen on the foot-ball field. He over stepped the limits of his office when he disqualified a player for unintentional foul tackling.- Princetonian...
...take sober walks that they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice as to how best to develop their powers. Still, to these the monotony of the gymnasium will in the long run become irksome. The tennis player will admit that his right arm exceeds his left, without caring to correct it. He cannot correct it without taking time from his favorite game, and there by injuring his proficiency. Is it likely that he will make this sacrifice from an abstract love of the symmetrical? And is it reasonable...