Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Formerly he was considered a strong man who could hold the greatest amount of wine; wine was considered to be so healthy in its effects that it was very generally given to young children. Man then lived only to drink all he could all the time; the veteran soldiers and sailors of Wellington and Nelson are notorious for their drinking propensities and powers. In Berlin, at a meeting of famous naturalists and doctors, about four thousand in number, no less than fifteen thousand three hundred and eighty-two bottles of different kinds of wine were consumed, to say nothing...
...much to say that the prospects for the 'varsity baseball nine this year are higher than were those of last year. Then Captain Wiggin had almost no veteran material. Although Corbett and Dickinson had played against Yale two years before, Cook was the only man in the University eligible to play who had played against Yale in any of the three games of the previous year. This year Cook and Corbett are the only men on last year's team who cannot play again. It is not certain whether Dickinson and Wiggin can, by the terms of the undergraduate rule...
...soon as the work began to be settled, prospects were encouraging, with all the old players back, and several new men of promise, among them Mills, DeWitt, Jerrems, Louis Hinkey, Brown, and Chadwick. But within a few weeks the team played wretchedly slow and listless football. The veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least...
Since November 1, the Yale team as well as the Harvard has greatly improved. Yale went into secret practice a few days later than Harvard. It is fair to suppose that the Yale veterans have improved to a greater extent than the Harvard team, which is composed so largely of inexperienced men. Yale has suffered somewhat by the loss, on account of illness, of DeWitt, a promising halfback. Before he was taken sick he was playing better than Armstrong ever has played, and far better then Armstrong's short season would allow this year. But Jerrems, who captained the freshman...
Butterworth is a veteran behind the line. The coaches have been afraid to endanger his chances of playing in the larger games so he has had an easy time of it thus far, taking practically no part in the minor games...