Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard's evidence is a dispatch from Ames to H. F. Billings, jr., manager of the Virginia Brights nine of Chicago, and an affidavit of a certain Paul Buckley, in which he swears to Ames being a professional ball player. The dispatch and the affidavit are overbatim as follows...
Resolved, That no one shall be eligible to take part as a player in any championship game of the association, who is not a bona fide student of the college on whose team he plays; matriculated for the then current year and pursuing a course which requires his attendance upon at least five lectures, or recitations, a week. In case a player's qualifications are questioned he shall furnish to the advisory committee a certificate signed by three members of the faculty, stating that he is a bona fide student; matriculated for the then current college year, and regularly pursuing...
Resolved, That no professional athlete shall take part in any contest of the association, nor shall any college player or college be paid, or receive, directly or indirectly, any money, or financial concession, or emolument as a present, or as past compensation for, or as a prior consideration or inducement to playing, whether the same be received for, or paid by, or at the instance of the Football association, Athletic committee, or faculty of such college or university, or any individual whatsoever. And any player who is specially challenged under this section by any member of the association in writing...
Outing for November will have an important article on "The Development of Football," prepared by a Yale player and containing valuable it formation on this sport. In the same number, Walter Camp discusses the question of professional umpires...
Hartwell, P. G., right end. He was substitute last year, has rowed two years on the crew, is tall and muscular and a hard and conscientious player. Rhodes, '91, who was elected captain last fall and resigned, will play right tackle. He played last year, was substitute the year before, and has rowed two years on class crew; he is very powerful and plucky. Right guard and centre are open as yet; the candidates are Newell, '90, who has been playing center till within a day or two when he was changed to right guard. He is very tall...