Word: turf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Turf, Field and Farm says editorially: "The college authorities should see to it that the students do not incur heavy expenses on account of their athletic clubs; that the tax is kept within reasonable bounds, and that indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys...
...following expression of opinion by Turf, Field and Farm will be of interest : "The majority of the spectators who witnessed last Saturday's inter-collegiate foot-ball contest were probably not up in the rules of the game, and therefore were unconscious of the fact that Yale frequently and deliberately fouled her adversary. Those, however, who understood the rules must have been shocked at the illegal practices employed by the opponents of Harvard. Kicking the ball is foot-ball, but kicking and jumping upon an opponent is not included in the rules governing the game. Such practices as Yale adopted...
...following on "Running as an Exercise," from the Turf, Field and Farm, is of such general interest that we clip it entire...
...Turf, Field and Farm will offer an international cup, to be rowed for in August next. Ten men, including Hanlan and Lee, will contest for the prize, under the London Sportsman rules...
...catchers, is benefitted any by winter work. We understand that Corcoran and Derby have been corresponded with about training the men, but as yet no answer has been received from them. There is some talk about fixing up the old ball ground on the campus, by taking off the turf and loam, and filling in with hard gravel on the infield; but, in as much as this has been spoken of about every year, we presume that the turf will still retain its place on the ball ground...