Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constant bickering and unpleasantness between them. But it seems to me that the best, and, in fact, the only practicable method of doing away with the "Yaleism," or, what seems the same thing, the "muckerism" of foot-ball, is to enforce the regulation requiring the referee to disqualify a player upon a second apparently intentional violation of the rules of the game. If the referee had disqualified the Yale men who intentionally violated rules to gain the game last Saturday, they would soon have been led to have some respect for the proprieties of the game. And if hereafter this...
...large spoon. The Sioux played with but one stick about four feet long. The sticks used today are usually four feet and a half long and nine inches broad near the end. The general features of the game are the same today as they were centuries ago. The players were not allowed to touch the ball with their hands; the body-checking was about the same, a little more vigorous perhaps; when a goal was made the ball was sent back to be thrown up in the centre of the field. On the other hand, the number of players...
...game, while Austin and Kimball, the latter of whom has, however, been unable to play lately, are excellent half-backs. The playing of the full-back is rather weak, but during the last few days that position has been well filled by Gardner, who will develop into a good player with practice. It seems particularly unfortunate that a game with Yale could not have been arranged this year, as the Harvard freshmen for the past five years have been unable to beat the Yales, and now for the first time the team seems able to cope with them with favorable...
...ground in front of him, and the moment he does this the fielders on both sides crowd around him in a mob and each side endeavors to get a chance to kick the ball out of the scrimmage, and the result is that a pretty rough time occurs, the players who are defending the holder of the ball striving to push the opposing fielders back, while the latter endeavor to drive the former from their protection of the player having the ball, the latter being frequently a badly placed "under man in the fight." In the American inter-collegiate rules...
...while the strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," proceeding from an injured runner, clashed with the "Babies on Our Block." By this time the whole air resounded with a wondrous pot-pourri, a strange medley of songs, hymns, anthems, curses, utterly regardless of time or place, each player translating into sound the overwhelming passion of his soul. But this sublimity could not sustain itself. The crisis was approaching. One of the basses, by a mighty stroke, sent the ball high into the air; it paused, hesitated, then floated between the goal posts. Breathless was the suspense as it rose...