Word: strains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...played by men in buckram, so padded and protected that the players' grandmothers cannot look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball and not the man. And a man can play it successfully without any strain upon his sense of fair-play or honesty and without any danger of being tempted to forget he is a gentleman. The ball is always in sight and so is the player. It is a spectacular game. It is one where good individual play counts, and not one where the whole team...
...track team did some very light work yesterday to recover from the stiffness resulting from the severe strain on Saturday. Many of the men were given a complete rest. Light work for all, however, will begin today in preparation for the intercollegiate games in Philadelphia on Friday and Saturday...
Single stairways will connect the middle promenade and the upper part of each aisle. Eight large stairways will be built between the ground floor and middle corridor. The concrete, where the strain is too severe, will be strengthened by twisted steel rods, as in the rest of the structure...
...that is at once varied and powerful. Six members of the 1902 eleven will be in the line-up today. Bloomer has not recovered from the injury sustained last Saturday, and his place today will be taken by Miller; with this exception the men have recovered from the hard strain of the Princeton game, and are physically...
...running, as a whole, was good, but was marred by Carr's unnecessary interference with the ball on first base. Coburn pitched very steadily, striking cut nine men, and giving but one base on balls. Quigley caught well in the absence of Kernan, who is recovering from a slight strain, but at the bat, he proved very unreliable...