Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundreds of dollars to be awarded in the near future to the best drum corps out of the many it expects to contest. It is suggested that the H. D. C. be resusitcated and compete for the prize. As the award is to be made not only for musical skill, but also for skill in evolution, and as the old H. D. C. performed the most marvellous evolutions ever seen in the great parade, there will be little doubt that the prize and hundreds of shining ducats will come out to Harvard...
...playing being especially fine. For eighty-nine, the honors were carried off by Scott, Wardman, Perry and Austin. Wardman doing most of the work in the rush line during the first three-quarters, and Perry's tackling as half-back being one of the most wonderful exhibitions of skill that has been seen on Jarvis Field for a long time. Morgan played a good steady game till he got hurt. The score was 42 points to 4 in favor of eighty...
...that foot-ball is a science, and that this science has made such progress within the past two years that men, once fine players, are now inefficient and worthless; that the foot-ball of to-day is a new game, in which strength and weight are no longer everything. Skill is now the requisite for fine play, and that skill he is trying to develop in the University men." - Yale News...
From four o'clock until dark Monday, Wednesday and Friday are the hours for regular practice. The skill shown by the riders is such that if the future A. B. will be of no avail in obtaining a livelihood, a place in the lists of the itinerant circus will always be open. There are generally three or four players on a side, but the way in which the ponies gallop about the field makes it seem as if there were many more. Last Friday the play, influenced perhaps by the pressure of a number of spectators, was exceptionally fine. Morris...
...field but a few weeks. The old adage that misery loves company would perhaps be appropriate, and anyone who has never played polo need not hesitate to try, his powers from the fear that he will be alone as a beginner. A sport in itself so full of skill, physical training and excitement ought not to be a matter of so little concern to the students. Of all of the different athletic games, it surely is the one in which the least general interest is taken. The autumn is the height of the polo season, and if anyone should feel...