Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dartmouth's foot-ball team received an overwhelming defeat from our 'Varsity yesterday on Holmes, before about four hundred spectators. The result could have been predicted at the very outset of the game, for the visitors were no match for our men either in weight or skill...
...minor details, too, which are different in each game. The English Association rules admit of legitimate foot-ball play, while the Rugby game admits of the roughest wrestling for the ball of any of the three codes. The American game is the one affording the best chance for strategetic skill in "passing" the ball, but it cannot be said to be foot-ball exactly, as a match can be won without a single goal being kicked...
...poetic genius have but enhanced the value of his professional teaching. The Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill. It is no less full of delight and instruction for the general reader than of historic value to the professional student. It is pleasant to know that Dr. Holmes resigns only that he may devote himself more exclusively to literary occupations. The professor who has taught the Medical School withdraws in favor...
...training, have come to excel therein. To excel is not our only aim; but to afford to the largest number the best chance for physical exercise and enjoyment in all our various games and sports. Tennis, lacrosse and all those sports in which men of comparatively little experience and skill can take part, are of value to this end. The revival of class ball games, of scratch races, of every thing that tends to induce men to participate in athletics more generally, is to be welcomed. The gymnasium of course offers unsurpassed advantages to unlimited numbers for bodily exercise...
Foot-ball practice is steadily maintained and excites much interest among the students. The strength and amount of skill brought out so constantly in the game render it highly exciting to look upon. It is still early to make just comparisons between the team of this year and that of last, and to judge of our chances of success this year. The eleven of this fall will be somewhat lighter than that of last. There is a great deal of fair material from which to draw for the vacant places on the team; that which is excellent is still wanting...