Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some experiments were recently tried by O'Rouke and White of the Buffalo club with the new catcher's protection, which is a flat rubber case, filled up with air and worn over the chest and abdomen. O'Rouke put the protector on and claims that he could not fell a ball thrown by White at a distance of ten feet...
...college papers have done in fitting men for journalistic work. It is certain that since the growth of college papers, the college graduate in a newspaper office has become less the "horned animal" he was in Horace Greeley's day. At least, his horns are now covered with thick rubber, and not until frequent labor at erasing many choice effusions of the brain, have worn that rubber out are the points allowed to show. By that time the animal generally has strength enough to warrant the display...
...novelty in college athletics was brought out at Rochester University last Monday. It was a fight with rubber overshoes between the sophomores and freshmen...
...papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is said to have been making converts in that college, visited the rooms of his prospective followers, and had just seated himself for "a quiet rubber" with a few men from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries of "No popery," "Down with the Pope," and cheers for the "Church of England." The noise called forth fresh recruits from the adjoining colleges, and the matter assumed...
...list of foul plays, and the penalty for making them, was adopted. If either side makes a total of six fouls during a game, one player is to be dropped from that side. After considerable discussion, the small ball was adopted. This is size No. 40 of the American Rubber...