Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also at a game a year ago between the first eleven and Technology, both played on the Union Grounds. In last year's game, Mr. Holden tripped in a hole and sprained his ankle, not getting into good trim again all the season. Yesterday, Mr. Nichols, a most promising player, was slung into the home plate of the diamond, a great block of marble, and badly hurt. Not only that, there was every chance offered the men of being severely hurt; and it was only that Providence which watches over somnambulists and Harvard students that kept them from embracing...
...pulled up. This was sufficiently careless, but one of the Tech half-backs found the leaving of a marking string lying across the field more dangerous still when he took a header over it during the game. Home plate, as I said before, was not removed till a player had to be carried away from previous contact with it. These things were all owing to the gross negligence of the managers; but with every precaution, the ground is dangerous and unfit to play on: it is covered with cinders, full of holes, has a running track and a base-ball...
...various American colleges 'have developed it into a game differing in many of its phases from any of its English prototypes;' and the writer goes on to describe the distinguishing characteristics of the Rugby, Association and our regular college game. The leading feature of the Rughy 'was that the player might run with the ball;' of Association, 'that the player might 'charge' -that is, run against an opponent and might not run with the ball;, while our college foot-ball has developed many features of both these forms of the game, besides adding numerous plays requiring skill to execute them...
Convinced by a personal and critic observation of the game the author in justice upholds and defends the sport with the remark that 'with good physical condition in the players, the requisite training and suitable grounds, the game is not only one of the best of out door sports, but one of the safest.' As regards the tendency to degenerate into personal combat, 'the writer's observation has led him to believe that, in nine cases out of ten, a general tendency to indulge in striking with the fist is the result of conscious inferiority.' Any one who has watched...
...skill and stratagem instead of brutality and unnecessary roughness, for manly pluck and perseverance, instead of tit for-tat kicks and blows. Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly from the fact that...