Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Every afternoon a game is started on Jarvis, and as a means of encouragement, each nine is supported by a considerable number of friends. By running and tearing around the field as they do, the diamond is cut up in such a manner as to make the ground too rough and irregular for any other nines but ones like theirs to enjoy a game. It is an exceedingly disagreeable and difficult task to get the little "muckers" off the field after they once engage in an exciting game of ball, and numerous are the epithets launched against the lawful aggressors...
Cannot this interest be revived? Could rough sculling be once established on a firm footing, it would soon take a regular place in our inter collegiate contests, when to be Harvard's representative would be no mean honor...
...such cases, no regard should be paid to clothing; it should be cut off immediately, and not taken off. An injured arm must be both slung and tied firmly to the chest. In fractures, a joint is made; in dislocations, a joint is taken away. This affords a rough diagnosis. splints are used to prevent movement in the joints. Burns and frost-bites are very serious. In the former, the clothing must be lifted off most carefully, and flour or grease should be spread over the burn, to protect it from the cool air. In conclusion, dislocated bones must never...
...rowing of the crew as a whole is very rough, - there is too much splashing, especially in the waist of the boat. Among the more prominent individual faults are the following...
...game now became a little rough. The Bostons again crowded their men towards our goal, but in so doing weakened their defence, and Robinson swiped goal number four in four minutes...