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Word: scrub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time to a distant field kindly loaned by an interested gentleman. In the spring time the lacrosse twelve. badly cramped in their narrow quarters, were also clamoring for more room that their increasing numbers might be accommodated. As was said before there was scarcely a place where any scrub game could be played out of recitation hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR MORE ATHLETIC GROUNDS. | 4/1/1884 | See Source »

...centre. Where are the freshmen to practice in the spring and fall? What will the tennis men do with only half the number of courts that they had two years ago? Where are any of the unorganized parties of students to play if they desire to have a scrub game at any time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR MORE ATHLETIC GROUNDS. | 4/1/1884 | See Source »

...view of our defeat by Princeton, it will perhaps be of interest to compare the advantages that foot-ball enjoys in the two colleges. At Princeton, there are, unless things have changed very recently, six regular teams, -the freshman, freshman scrub, sophomore, sophomore scrub, university, and university scrub. Of course other things being equal, six teams ought to develop three times as much material as two ; and the result is that ache year the team is composed mainly of seniors, who have had three years experience of the game. The university teams play before dinner from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1883 | See Source »

...Scrub" nines at Yale which play occasional games are there called "amateur," to distinguish them from the University nine, which is looked upon tacitly as "professional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/20/1883 | See Source »

Yale treats the teams of other colleges exactly as she treats her own scrub teams, and after the manner that she is willing that she should be treated in return. Whether the Yale men treat each other and expect to be treated in return as gentlemen, or not, is a question upon which opinions seem to differ. Harvard thinks not, decidedly, but, on the other hand, believes that there are certain relations between gentlemen which should never be forgotten, even on the foot-ball field. Columbia has hitherto taken Harvard's side of the question, and we hope she will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1882 | See Source »

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