Word: puss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slow and will have to improve in this particular in order to make a successful player. Calhoun, '90, occupied the position of short-stop on the freshman nine last year and played it well. He is light and quick and a fair batter but not likely to take "Puss" Noyes place on the 'Varsity nine. Day, '89 S., is one of the best players in college. He caught for the freshmen last year and played first some. He is a heavy man, has a sure eye and is a good thrower and hard hitter. He will undoubtedly be change catcher...
...They urge in their defence, "Yes, but Sears and Harding will play in the Yale game." True, little friends, but one end-rush does not make a victory any more than the proverbial swallow makes a summer; you must train your eleven to play foot-ball and not puss-in the-corner; your rushers must run with the ball and not let the half-backs do all the work; or, if they want the half-backs to score, they must block like men and not give way at every rush. Another evident point of weakness seems to be failure...
...rumored that the '89 nine will disband and organize into a Puss-in-the-Corner club. The first championship game will be played with Lasell Seminary...
...cool May evening at Oberlin. The students were sitting under the trees singing hymns or playing squat-tag and blind-man's-buff on the campus. Here and there a kindly-faced professor might be seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...