Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Week's Sport says that if an All-American football team were made up it should be composed as follows: Rushers-Cumnock (Harvard), Cowan (Princeton), Cranston (Harvard), George (Princeton), Heffelfinger (Yale), Gill (Yale), Stagg (Yale); quarterback, Poe (Princeton); half-backs, Lee (Harvard), Channing (Princeton); fullback, Ames (Princeton). It gives as the substitutes, Dean (Harvard), Trafford (Harvard), Black (Princeton), and McBride (Yale), behind the line, Janeway (Princeton), Stickney (Harvard), Donnelly (Princeton), and Rhodes (Yale) in the line...
...Canadian census of athletes gives 16,000 lacrosse players, 5000 snowshoers, 5000 curlers, 4000 cricketers, 2000 football players, 1000 oarsmen, 1000 baseballists, and 10,000 field athletes, making a total of 45,000 who actively follow some branch of out-door sport...
...former years Harvard's football expenses have been enormous; but the economical management which has marked the increased efficiency of the FootBall association this fall has greatly reduced the cost of this sport in the university. For the year 1886-89 the total receipts of the association, inclusive of the surplus of $1,181.86 with which the year's account began, were $4,896,88, which sum was $4,043.53 less than the income in 1887-88. The expenses, including the bills payable, were $7,214.38. The debt at the beginning of the present year was, therefore...
...Week's Sport, in an interesting summary of the season's work, says: The style of play has not materially altered from that of last season, except that kicking has become more popular and effective. Last year it was the common practice never to kick until forced by the third down; this year many a good punt has been put in at the second down, and some even at the first. The tackling has improved, and there are today almost no poor tacklers on any of the association teams. The running would not have been by any means able...
...current number of the Week's Sport contains a synopsis of the football season with a critical review of players...