Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lacrosse team. In spite of the general call for candidates made by the lacrosse men very few out of the large number of desirable athletes chose to come out and practice. This was a great mistake. The simple principles of lacrosse do very much to perfect a player in the points requisite for foot-ball, while they give him a test of speed and endurance necessary for track athletics. One of the most brilliant and successful players of last year's Princeton team owes his preeminence in dodging to his lacrosse training. Princeton has already waked up to the necessity...
...College base-ball associations," says the Times, "find it very difficult to pick out a strong team to represent their respective colleges every season. It is often the case that a collegian, after several seasons' work in the diamond field, is graduated just when he becomes an accomplished player of the national game. The Princeton College Club will lose four of its most valuable players next season. They are Larkin, the first baseman; Ernst, the pitcher; Schenck, the catcher, and Rafferty, the second baseman. About a dozen collegians have sent in applications for membership in the nine to fill...
...should be sound and healthy in heart and lungs, and able to stand thumping and bumping for an hour or two with impunity. If to this hardiness be added a fleet foot, strong limbs, quick perception and presence of mind, one has the requisites of a foot-ball player. Of all college games this is the most accessible, and yet for the average and untrained student it is unquestionably the most dangerous...
...hoped that the gentlemen who hold this important position in next fall's games will be found always fair and strictly impartial. It must seem strange to gentlemen unacquainted with the game that it should be necessary to forbid, by the rules, a player's choking or kicking another, or tackling and jumping on an opponent when he does not have the ball and is not in any way likely to have it; but experience has shown that personal safety demands protection by rule from such ungentlemanly proceedings. The time is gradually approaching when gentlemanly and legitimate play alone will...
Concerning the Yale-Harvard game, the Courant admits that Yale plays a rough game, but maintains that she has a right to dictate in the matter, as "the present science of foot-ball play has been developed almost entirely by Yale;" that "she has never had a player disqualified for illegal acts, but has continually played the game for all it is worth within the limits of the rules," or in other words it is the regular thing for her men to make fouls when anything can be gained by it, until each has had two warnings. - [Phillipian...