Word: great
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...short it is an excellent game to play but rather uninteresting to watch. It is a game which a great number of men might play with more ease than almost any other were it once thoroughly established...
...students. Those who saw it were surprised at the amount of skill shown by the players, who in spite of being mostly workmen who can get off only only or two afternoons in the week to practise, had been used to the game so long as to have a great deal of prowess. Several men who came up with the team. The opinions of those who saw the game were various. Some who had not played foot ball thought the game rather tame and monotonous. Those who had played American foot ball thought it would be good fun. Nearly...
Several athletic men were impressed with the idea that it would make a first rate winter sport. There are a great many days in the winter when the ground is frozen and the air bracing, and these days could be utilized by any who like the sport to go out and play a little. It is by no means necessary to have eleven men on each side. Four or five on each side can play a game and have a great deal of fun out of it. The game is excellent for the wind and develops quickness and steadiness...
Throughout the game was very lively and the players went at their work with a great deal of dash, and had the teams been backed up by crowds of enthusiastic followers the game would have been by no means without excitement...
...theatre-going public than that of Mr. E. H. Sothern, which begins tonight at the Hollis Street Theatre. Very few actors occupy the warm place in the hearts of the lovers of dramatic art that Mr. Sothern does; and it is not because his father was a great popular favorite before him, but because of his own sterling abilities and charming personality. He will be seen during the present engagement in a new play, "The Maister of Woodbarrow," by Jerome K. Jerome...