Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the player might run with the ball;' of Association, 'that the player might 'charge' -that is, run against an opponent and might not run with the ball;, while our college foot-ball has developed many features of both these forms of the game, besides adding numerous plays requiring skill to execute them properly. The writer then describes the field, the disposition of the men thereon, and their separate duties. The technicalities of the team play such as 'off-side playing,' its nature and penalties; 'passing' the ball as requiring no little skill; the mode of catching the ball...
...playing will thus be commenced sooner and the time saved which is generally lost in running aimlessly up and down the field for exercise during the first week or two. At Harvard and Princeton, the active participation in lacrosse by many of their best foot-ball players give them skill and exercise which are missed here, so that especial efforts should be made to keep up our position. - Yale News...
...Advocate" appeared on Saturday and contains much good reading matter. "Auf Widersehen" is a well-turned translation of Heine's lovely poem. "The Morality of Tom Jones" makes one or two good points but is not very much of a literary production. Considerable skill is shown in the treatment of a sketch entitled "The Streets of Boston." "Banished" is a bright, humorous conceit. Of the two papers on Milton and on Goethe, the latter is decidedly the stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration...
...their uses in developing men for the 'Varsity nine, but they are not intended as a school for creating a love of low ribaldry or other coarse wit. Some time ago a number of juniors had the pleasure of seeing their nine win a game of ball through their skill at "rattling." Yesterday the sophomores copied those tactics. The freshmen tried to chime in, and now the spirit of interference seems to be in full sway...
...interest taken in to-day's race has perhaps been unequalled for many years as the prospect for a close and exciting contest has never been fairer. The hard and conscientious training of all the eights entitle them all to the victory. But it will be muscle and skill that will turn the scale to-day. Seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen all have our good wishes...