Word: sided
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seem to some to be a prize for doing something which should be a pleasure, and indeed the opportunity to aid in winning a class championship should be sufficient to bring out all the men who are fitted by experience or physique to play football. There is, however, another side to the question. It has become a custom in many athletic contests to give small tokens to winners, and in most cases the prizes are not coveted for themselves, but merely as reminders of a pleasant experience. These cups will also lend more dignity to the eleven best...
...idea has recently been suggested to me, which, if properly carried out, would seem to add a much needed stimulus to one side of the game of football. One of the greatest criticisms that is heard at the present time against the game is that it is too rough and of no use to us after we leave college. Both of these facts are, of course, falsehoods, but that does not in any way diminish the harm they do in the popular mind...
...team, and who indeed should not be expected to spare the time necessary to play through the season. By joining a graduate squad for a few days of practice they would have a welcome change from their work without sacrificing more time than they could well afford. The social side of football has often been a minor consideration, and any move which tends to bring this side to the fore, and at the same time help develop the undergraduate team, does not deserve to be dismissed on grounds of impracticability without careful consideration...
Rule 20, Section 1, of the football rules reads: "A player is put off-side if the ball in play has last been touched by one of his own side behind him." Confusion probably arose from Section 4, which reads: "A player of the side which put the ball in play being off-side is put on-side when a kicked ball (except a ball put in play in a scrimmage by kicking it forward instead of snapping it back) touches the ground in the field of play...
...candidates for the gymnastic team was held recently at which the largest number of men handed in their names for the team that has ever reported for practice at the beginning of the year. Captain Bennett outlined the year's plans, and laid special stress on the social side of the work, after which Coach Schrader described the work itself and its benefits, and pointed out the results to be obtained by steady practice. G. F. Evans 2Dv. traced the history of the gymnastic team, and compared the difficulties of the team, when first organized in 1903, with the present...