Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second half found Goodale retired with a broken thumb, and Towle on the centre. Harvard made a great brace from the start, and played something like their uphill game of last year. Two goals were secured in quick succession, the first swiped by Harding, the second shot by Blodgett. This second goal was the result of very pretty attack, passing and most clever work on Blodgett's part...
President McCosh, of Princeton, has a curious habit, when disturbed in any way, of chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess...
...width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked by the thumb, the thin paper being easily worked from one roll to the other as occasion demands. Cuffs are also marked with hieroglyphics, and the part of the shirt bosom covered by the vest is daintly inscribed with notes, of value only to the owner. Other paper cribs are worn...
...happen in a more closely contested game. Their batting was good, but their coaching and base running was abominable. The features of the game were Fargo's home run, Gallivan's play at short and Fargo's at third, and a difficult foul catch by Wooster. Williams hurt his thumb in the fourth inning and gave way to Burrows. Brown having no substitutes, Crocker, '88, went second, and gave way to Bancroft, '88, in the last inning...
...feel encouraged by the game last Saturday, for, although the errors were some of them bad, the general work of the team was excellent, the batting especially being very good. Adams was weakened by a new catcher, who, notwithstanding the swift pitching he had to face and his split thumb, caught very pluckily to the end of the game. Taylor, Gallivan, Holden and Austin did good work in the field for the freshmen, Austin at one time striking out three men in succession when the bases were full. The batting of Holden, Stetson, Hallowell and Frost was remarkably good...