Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hefflefinger, the new right guard of the Yale eleven, has a brilliant record as an athlete. He is an excellent all-round baseball player, a most successful oarsman, and has made a good showing as a bicyclist. As a football player his experience has been limited, but he plays a strong, aggressive game, and will prove a valuable acquisition to the team. He is six feet, two inches in height, weighs two hundred pounds, and can run a hundred yards in remarkably good time, less than eleven seconds...
...closed last night. It is a great pity that more teams did not enter for the doubles. Evidently many who had intended to sign the book at Bartlett's were frightened out of it when they saw the list of entries headed by a few of the most formidable players in college. The mere winning of a prize is not the primary object for which the tournament was originated, but rather that all who enjoyed tennis might go in, try their luck, and have some sport. This spirit of dreading to pit oneself against a better player for fear...
This year an open competition was held for new members, and about a dozen men presented themselves, of whom two were chosen, one being a piccolo player, who was greatly needed by the club. Many new pieces have been added to the club's repertory, and the men are working with a will. The officers of the club are: H. Cannier, '89, president; C. Copeland, '89, secretary and G. L. Osgood, '91, leader...
...looks as though this place were going to be hard to fill. However, it is too early to prophesy as to the make-up or excellence of the nine. The choice of Mr. Cady as captain seems to have been a happy one, as he showed himself a player of no ordinary merit...
...Yale News of Sept. 28th contains the interesting information that Ames, the Princeton half-back of last year, will not return to college this fall. The record made by this player in the Lehigh game here on Saturday is sufficient refutation of this statement.-Princetonian...