Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...That veteran tennis player, Dr. James Dwight, contributes a brief article on "Lawn Tennis in New England" in which all college tennis players will take a lively interest. Dr. Dwight describes the first game of tennis played in New England (in 1875 at Nahant), when the enthusiasm of Dr. Dwight and his opponent for the game was so great that rainy afternoons they would play in rubber boots and coats rather than lose a day, and thence traces the history of the game up to the present year...
...points. Second base will be covered by Durell who has played in that position for five years. Watts and Knickerbocker will make up the infield, and for the out field Payne and Woodcock are both excellent men. Thus it will be seen that Princeton will be represented by a veteran team on the ball nine, and one which any nine may fear...
...winning football team. When Mr. Cumnock became Captain of the Harvard team two years ago he inaugurated an era of football energy which, although it brought not victory the first year, laid the foundations for success in 1890. In no way led astray by the thought that a veteran team would easily win, he pursued the same policy of developing not only a strong second eleven, but encouraging in every possible way the production of more material and stimulating a healthy popularity for the sport among all classes. In the early games of the season his team piled up touchdowns...
...October number of the Century contains the conclusion of the Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, which for several months has been a feature of the magazine. The frontispiece, a portrait of the veteran actor, goes with the article. Edward Eggleston turns from tales of Hoosier schoolmasters and of Yankee life to describe "Out of the Ways in High Savoy...