Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tired seeing a prize fight between ruffians, when they expect to see a spirited game between gentleman. And, in our opinion, there will be no inter-collegiate foot-ball three or four years hence unless referees are secured who have the pluck and disposition to enforce the rules against players who are willing to break them. Undoubtedly it would be a safeguard to have the game refereed by an alumnus, who may be supposed to be removed from sympathy with the present mode of play. We doubt, though the advisability of changing rule 19 so that the referee can disqualify...
...unique, and should not be hastily decided one way or the other. At first thought it would seem to be an excellent way of forcing a team to play fairly whether it is disposed to do so or not. For while there is often so little difference between a player and a substitute that a team would be willing to lose the one and bring in the other in order to gain some desirable point, on the other hand, a team would under no circumstances be willing to lose a man if no one were allowed to take his place...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The logic of Prof. Norton's letter has been, I think, unnecessarily condemned and the action of the committee, in some measure, misunderstood. Early this autumn the committee's attention was drawn forcibly to the fact that to disqualify a player three warnings were necessary, and that several elevens were making a practice of playing unfairly and, in some cases, brutally. Knowing that each player could do so twice with impunity, the committee rightly felt that foot-ball played with this spirit ought to be checked, and so far every right-minded student will agree...
...dispirited by their misfortunes, the nine showed by their splendid fielding record that they played for all they were worth and that where they failed was in their batting. Now batting is only very rarely a natural gift and must be taught and developed by careful training. Now a player can not learn, however willing he is, to bat against poor pitching or even against pitchers whose curves he knows. The Committee however think he can if he tries hard enough, but batting needs a good teacher and this is what the committee won't allow for these reasons: First...
...Sargent, the director of the gymnasium, another member of the committee, says that warning players under the present rules is a mere farce, for the referee's attention is often distracted, sometimes purposely, by a team's umpire, and then a player may entirely disable another and be warned only once for it. Again there are so many men engaged that individuals may be warned here and there and the play of a team not affected at all. Allowing three warnings, as under the present rules, is as though in sparring three blows under the belt were allowed before disqualification...