Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...overture to the Freichuetz was given with great warmth and vigor, notwithstanding slight uncertainness in the horns. The most interesting number on the programme was Mr. Kneisel's solo. The piece is a difficult one and requires enormous technique as well as sureness on the part of the player in order to be enjoyed. Mr. Kneisel possesses both these requisites. His playing of the chromatic runs, double stops, and artificial harmonics was perfection itself. A member of his delicate and chromatic runs, however, were lost to the auditor, being drowned by the din of the orchestra. The soloist richly deserved...
...freshmen played a strong hard game, though not a very scientific one. They blocked well, and the way they broke through the Yale rush-line was perfectly delightful to watch. And when they had got through, there was no standing round looking on. The nearest man to the Yale player who had the ball would seize him and throw him all alone. There was no holding a man up, and as soon as a Yale man went down, the men from the centre were always on him to stop his passing the ball out. Perry played a strong game throughout...
...true that ours is a poor ground. On the contrary, it is one of the best grounds in the country. It is level, as the Yale ground is not. Our team last year did not whine about the Yale ground, through every foot-ball player who was present knows the objections which might have been made...
Brinley, the champion college lawn tennis player, is playing half-back in the Trinity eleven...
...rumored that Wallace, end rush of the Yale 'varsity and an old Andover foot-ball player, will coach the Andover eleven...