Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been decided to divide the Chess Club into two camps, to play against each other, the side loosing the most games during the year to furnish a dinner for the club next spring. Meetings will be held every Wednesday night in 36 Dunster...
...first half, Andover played at her best. The ball was rushed to Harvard's seven-yard line, but there the Freshmen braced and obtained the ball on downs. After that, until the end of the half, neither goal was in danger. When the second half began, the Freshmen showed a decided improvement. They carried the ball the length of the field on straight rushes, but, just as they were within striking distance of Andover's goal, off side play by Nickerson lost the ball. During the rest of the half the ball changed hands continually...
...Freshman team will play Andover at Andover this afternoon. The following men report with clothes at 28 Plympton street, at 1: Sugden, Riggs, Fox, McGrew, Clark, Baldwin, Derby, Stillman, Cudahy, Pitkin, Story, Daly, Hersey, Knowles, Tenney, Ayer, Nickerson, Jones, Waterbury, Percival, Kernan, Hadden. The men on the squad not mentioned above report at Locker Building at 3.45 dressed to play...
...first match, Roche defeated Beyer without much difficulty, by more skillful net play and better judgment in placing his strokes. Beyer played almost entirely in the middle of the court and, partly on account of his short reach, failed to smash successfully when the opportunity was given. In the Ward-Rotch match there was almost no rallying one or two strokes generally ending each play. As a consequence the playing consisted almost wholly in a back court game, where Ward's swift cuts were most effective. In the match with Derby there was more rallying and the playing was more...
...finals of the Yale golf tournament played yesterday afternoon, T.M. Cheney defeated E. Byers one up, and thus secured the university championship. In the semi-finals played in the morning, Cheney defeated Captain Robertson, one up in nineteen holes, and Byers defeated C. Hitchcock, Jr., four up and three to play...