Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this latter capacity that we wish to speak. The work of Mr. Connor, the Princeton umpire in the game on Saturday, was of immense advantage to his team. Placed in a position where he could see everything and relieved from all the mental strain required of an actual player, he was able to coach and give the signs to his eleven in a most effective manner as well as to act as umpire. Mr. Adams, our umpire, did well in that capacity and did some excellent coaching, but he did not have the management of the team down to such...
...thinking for a moment of facing Yale or Painceton, unless our radical fault was overcome-high tackling. High tackling lost us the game Saturday, and high tackling will continne to lose us every game we play against a good team. Why it is that a player of average brains cannot learn in six weeks to takle low, when he knows that he would thereby almost double the effectiveness of his play, we, in our ignorance, cannot see. Nor do we see why a Harvard captain and foot ball committee cannot give their men to understand that they have...
...play the muscles of both body and mind, is extremely beneficial. The more a man is interested in, the more he sets his mind upon his exercise, the greater good he will derive from it. Foot ball and base ball require exertion of both body and mind. A successful player in either game must have a good physique and a cool head. Foot ball, to be sure, as generally played today, is conceded to be too rough and dangerous, but even foot ball helps to train a man in physical and mental alertness. Base ball, being attended with less danger...
...Browne, C. W. Grimstead, and E. L. Williams, all noted as adepts at the volley, have successively fallen before the powerful play of Mr. Lawford, and as his only reverse was that administered by the champion, we are undoubtedly justified in accepting him as the second best player in the kingdom...
...distinctly as W. Renshaw is at the head of the men, so is Miss Maud Watson the premier lady player. Indeed, if anything, she is even a greater champion than the gentleman named, for she has never been defeated, and this, too, despite the fact that, unlike him, she does not hold her championship and play but one match a year, for, with commendable pluck and good nature, she allows all a chance of lowering her colors. She has competed in four open competitions this year, having met and defeated all the best players, among whom we may mention...