Word: player
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter Camp, Parke H. Davis, and their associates of the Rules Committee was respected in spirit and letter by the American soldiers. They always heeded the injunction that "the football player who intentionally violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and unsportsmanlike tactics" and "brings discredit to the good name of the game." --New York Times...
...have been very satisfactory in view of the great difficulties under which we have been working," said Coach Burgess recently in a review of the present soccer year. "We haven't had many men to work with who have had experience in a college game before, as the only player on the team who I have coached before at the University is Kellett; and he has put up a splendid game at right inside forward. Another disadvantage that counted against us was the short time for practice before the games. The first men reported at the field only three weeks...
...some reason the importance of college games still depends largely upon their possibilities of physical injury rather than their potentialities of skill, and the spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however...
...Donald G. Herring, a famous Princeton football player of former days, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to see Dean Briggs, chairman of the Athletic Committee, concerning the participation of the University in the Football Pageant to be held in Princeton on November 28. One of the chief features of this event is to be a football game between Princeton and Rutgers...
Rand and Rand took the first set easiy, 6--3, with only three deuce games. The second and third were much closer, each player regularly taking the game on his own serve...