Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining in contact while lining-out, would enable the ball to be passed more scientifically, and allow greater freedom in kicking. Where the ball is carried back to any five-yard line compensation is made for loss of ground to the side so carrying it back, by greater freedom...
...pimply youth to be seen to day in our midst must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing it would be to see a foot ball game conducted on the principle of the modern nurses! The players should be neatly attired (because the present costume is "rowdyish"). No ball more deadly than a pig's bladder should be allowed. Player number one bows politely to the others and says, "Please pass me the ball." When he gets it in his gloved hands, all other players retire...
...CHESS PLAYER...
Terry's record, of twenty-two touchdowns for this season, has, we think, never been surpassed or equaled by an America foot ball player...
...regain our former position our team must work. They must put themselves in as good physical condition as do the teams of the other colleges; and they must, by developing new points in their play, try to recover our former advantage in the science of the game. Every old player who undertakes to try for a position should resolve to give both time and thought to improving his former play. Every new man should resolve to displace an old member by making himself the better athlete, or by learning to play a more intelligent game...