Word: watching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fearful lest the umpire think him too low; and as for a fair hip tackler-the best, by the way, of any method, because surest, and less likely to injure the man-he has been practically shut out altogether. A captain is almost afraid to call out the old watch-word "Tackle low," lest the umpire and the crowd think he is advocating something unfair. Again, regarding high tackling, while it is not a good way to get at a runner, nor at all a sure way, there is no rule forbidding...
...partially given in our article of yesterday, show that he approached the matter in detail, with the earnest purpose of suggesting real and practical improvements. The proposition that the college ought to employ a salaried official to control the actions of the steward and to keep an actual watch on the nature of the food served, in place of continuing the absolute farce of a student board of directors, meets with our heartiest approval. That this student board is of necessity a farce, no one will fail to recognize who knows anything of its methods of work...
...recognized by the faculty. The next thing of any importance is flag-raising. This has ceased to be an active custom, but is sometimes observed. The freshmen try and raise a flag with their class numerals on it, the night of the Glee Club concert. The sophomores stand watch and try and prevent this, but the freshmen often succeed. The freshmen cannot carry canes until after Feb. 22d, when they appear with canes about six inches in diameter at the top and from three to four at the base. These are called bangers and are carried by means...
...rivals and ourselves, and the outcome of this season's foot-ball play has placed Princeton further in the background. Yale, we believe, looks upon this as a point gained, and likes to consider Harvard as her only suitable rival. However that may be, it will be interesting to watch the further developments of this question, which rapidly is becoming the principal one in college sports...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: As none of the morning papers have spoken of the felling that time was called too soon in the first half of the New York game, it may not be superfluous to mention it in your columns. According to my watch, which has always kept good time, and to the watches of several of my neighbors on the grand stand, there were just forty-three minutes between the placing the ball in position by the referee and the touchdown by Sears, which ought therefore to have counted. There ought to be some appeal possible from the referee...