Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When a team resorts to a violation of the rules to gain her advantage and trusts in maiming and defeating her opponents before the referee has time to impose the extreme penalty of removal, the game ceases to be one of skill and enjoyment and is no longer a contest between gentlemen. That the visitors brought a wonderfully powerful team will not be denied by a single supporter of the crimson, but this fact made their conduct all the more despicable. Had they played the friendly game that was shown in the contest with our Princeton rivals the game would...
Harvard cannot defeat Yale at foot-ball unless she consents to place on her team men who will substitute roughness for skill and professional enmity for amateur courtesy. But such a team will never represent Harvard, and may they never bear its honored name. A few such contests as that of Saturday will blast forever the reputation of foot-ball as being a commendable inter-collegiate game...
...public opinion in Germany has been much exercised about the physical condition of the boys; they were good scholars, but listless; inactive, unenterprising, often appallingly short-sighted. A remedy is to be sought not only in gymnastics but in cricket and foot-ball and other out-door games requiring skill and agility. It is a wise ruling...
...affords opportunity for practice during the winter. Base-ball is monopolizing the enthusiasm of the athletes and students generally, especially since the victory over the Syracuse Stars. Work has begun on the long promised base-ball and athletic grounds, and Cornell will soon have ample room for developing her skill and muscle and for exhibiting that skill and muscle when developed...
...well as by the Sacs and Chippewas of the North. Baggatiway was to Indians what chariot racing and the throwing of the discus were to the Greeks; what cricket is to the English; what base-ball is to Americans; a game that attracted the attention and tried the skill of the bravest warriors, of the most agile athletes. Kings and queens and royal chieftains were wont, even centuries ago, to take part in the sport. We have said that baggatiway was a national game. It was, however, played differently by different nations. The Choctaws played it with two sticks, each...