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...look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball and not the man. And a man can play it successfully without any strain upon his sense of fair-play or honesty and without any danger of being tempted to forget he is a gentleman. The ball is always in sight and so is the player. It is a spectacular game. It is one where good individual play counts, and not one where the whole team is, like a chain, no stronger than its weakest link. There is, to be sure...
...first attract public notice? By boxing. And yet he was no heavy-weight, and was embarassed with eye-glasses. But he had science and could take his punishment, and a lot of it, and that, too, Without squirming. Any men who saw that about is not likely to forget...
...American theory is that of a Christian nation, with Christian motives, Christian ideals, and a Christian standard of ethics. To further this theory we should first forget the mass of humanity in singling out the units. This process should begin with the surrender of one's self to God. Second we should think--the need today is for a generation of thinking Christians--in order that we may not hold the old, worn out, abandoned conceptions, but may gain a rational and vigorous Christianity. In the third place we should reach out to humanity. The unit that thinks must embrace...
...athletic contests have sometimes been called "war." Possibly they may partake of the nature of war, but we should not forget that after all it is a mimic war, and that the players themselves are perhaps more conscious of this difference than the spectators. Too much is the athlete regarded as a fighter in a great cause, whose efforts must be supported both on and off the field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which...
...Wives of Windsor." Soon came a notable event, the production of "Dan't Druce," in which the young actor made a pronounced success in his love scenes with Miss Marion Terry. He showed an easy grip of character in "Duty," and in 1879 he played Sir Horace Welby in "Forget-Me-Not," with Miss Genevieve Ward, in a trying part acted with great finesse and spirit...