Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale, '87. In preparation for this the class has already begun work. Players of the game have appeared on the field trying for positions and already it seems that from this material several good men are to be chosen. But this is not enough. Weight and strength combined with skill in football as experience has shown will surely defeat a moderately skillful team unaided by these other qualifications. Therefore we hope the captain will call upon all men in the class, old players or not, who are likely to possess the requisite weight, strength and endurance to present themselves...
...person in the crowd of 1000 that gathered to see the game last Saturday who was in any way prepared for the poor exhibition given by our team. Weight gave us the game it is true, but there is not a shadow of a doubt that in point of skill, in passing and kicking, we were fairly out-played. From the kick-off Harvard, carried the ball to Pennsylvania's goal and in 2 minutes Kendall secured a touchdown, completing our score, for Austin failed to kick the goal though the ball was almost directly in front...
...universities, like their schools, take greater care of the bodily health of their students. They live and work in airy, spacious buildings, surrounded by lawns and groves of trees; they find much of their pleasure in games which excite a passionate rivalry in the development of bodily energy and skill, and which in this respect are far more efficacious than any gymnastic and fencing exercises. It must not be forgotten that the more young men are cut off from fresh air and from the opportunity of vigorous exercise, the more in duced will they be to seek an apparent refreshment...
...found that the facts are only such as have their foggy existence in want of knowledge and misconception. A small list, in proportion, of tramps, loafers, paupers, will be gathered from college alumni. Nor will it be found that mechanical pursuits and the handicrafts are calling in vain for skill men. But on the contrary it will be found that they are over supplied, as the times are, and willing mechanics every now and then have to wait for employment. It is also a fact that colleges and college-bred men have done their share in performing the only really...
Owing to the severe defeat administered to Wesleyan by Yale a short time ago, it was thought that the game would be too one sided to be interesting but Wesleyan proved themselves no mean opponents either in weight or skill...