Word: team
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Crocker, '91, has been elected captain of the Amherst foot ball team...
...These intercollegiate contests prevent a general physical culture among the students. The moment there is a " 'varsity team" in training the whole athletic interest centres in it; the time that should be given to vigorous exercise is given to a humpbacked watching of the practicing team from the fence or stand. This is no small evil, this making a concentrated extract of athlete; it is bad for the extract and bad for the residuum...
...meeting of candidates for the Mott Haven team, held in the trophy room of the gymnasium last evening, was attended by over sixty men, a larger number than has ever before attended such a meeting. E. Sturgis, '90, president of the H. A. A., called the meeting to order. He said that the team, following the custom of former years, would begin training immediately after Christmas, and that it was particularly necessary to commence hard work right away because on February 15th, the Boston Athletic association would hold a handicap indoor meeting open to all amateurs, which it is hoped...
...considerable time before Mr. Ammerman was "approached." The first article says the offer was made on November 14. The second says it was early in November. November 14 was the day but one before the Harvard Princeton game, hardly time enough to put a new man on the team...
...have been informed that Mr. Ammerman is a base ball player, but I cannot find that he has any reputation as a foot ball player. He was not a member of Pennsylvania's foot ball team which played Harvard this year