Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arrange the proposed game with the Yale club, provided of course, that there is enough cold weather to make good skating. So slight a matter as a difference of rules might easily be arranged by a meeting of delegates from the two clubs, and should not be permitted to prevent what would surely be an interesting and exciting contest. Meanwhile the warm weather still makes the game a mere speculative possibility...
...Linn and Winslow of the advisory committee represented Yale and Harvard respectively. No final action was taken on account of the proposed meeting of Yale and Harvard committees which have been appointed to confer on general athletics. If nothing arises, however, as an outcome of this proposed meeting to prevent, the following schedule will be played...
...athletic point of view and is particularly unfortunate just at the present time, coming as it does when athletics at Harvard seem to have taken a new lease of life, and when such interest is manifested in them. The immediate result of these regulations, he says, will be to prevent Harvard from meeting Princeton in the ball field unless Princeton is willing to play in Cambridge, an entirely unlikely thing. Finally the graduate deplores the fact that, while at other colleges the men are allowed to manage their athletics to suit themselves, thus giving them an enthusiasm which goes...
...comes to practice on leg work the crew may not lose its form. It is very important that every man should get a perfect control of his body-a thing which was somewhat neglected last year. Mr. Keyes hopes that the slow, rather unpleasant work done at present will prevent the men from falling into bad faults when they get on the water and lay the foundation for rapid improvement late in the season...
...centre men to run claiming that no sooner was the ball in play than it could be picked up, and another to push the ball backward with the foot instead of kicking it through. Things had reached this point when the rule mentioned above was adopted in order to prevent the former practice. Here follows an excellent example of the effect of legislation upon the game. Had this rule been directed against the kicking back instead of against the picking up in the scrimmage our quarter back play would not have followed as it almost immediately did. Legislation favored snapping...