Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ninety-Eight Eleven.The freshman football candidates lined up in two elevens yesterday afternoon and went through some hard practice. The inexperience of all the men was very prominent and Coach Forbes was often forced to stop the play and show the men their individual faults. The blocking off was very loose and the backs made futile attempts to follow the ragged interference. The men have not learned to tackle well and often catch the runner above the shoulders, which was a very prominent fault. The second eleven was managed well and made good gains through the first eleven's centre...
Where Brown gained most was through the tackles. Neither Gould nor Hallowell could stop the steady, repeated hammering of the Brown backs, although Hallowell made some brilliant tackles. Wrenn and Fairchild were both tried at quarter. Their work was a pretty even thing, but Fairchild certainly ran the team with better judgement...
...until the last of November. Freshmen who are interested in rowing are urged to join at once so as to get as much practice as possible before the races. The boat house being now on the road to the football field men will find it a convenient place to stop for an hour's exercise and a good bath. The membership fee is $5; lockers, $1 extra. Tickets, good until July, 1895, may be obtained at Thurston's, or of the secretary...
John H. Brooks '95 has been elected captain of the Princeton baseball team for next year. Brooks has played short stop for the past two seasons on the 'varsity team...
...inning Whittemore hit safely, reached second on an error by Altman, who made a wild throw of Cook's hit, and got third on a passed ball. Dickinson fouled out to Payne. Scannell hit to short, who threw Whittemore out at the plate; then Wiggin flied out to short-stop...