Word: mens
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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...
College students will register on Saturday, January 3, between 9 o'clock a. m. and 12 o'clock noon. The places of registration will be conspiculously posted sometime before the above date. All men failing to register had best report at once to the office. If they wait until they receive a notice, before giving their reasons for failing to register, fuller explanations will be required of them. Now that the petition for the extention of the Christmas Holidays has been refused, all men unable to furnish satisfactory reasons for not registering at the proper time and place, will...
...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 all agreed that it would...
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...
...scoring was done. The Olympics generally forced it down by means of one or two players, who, when they got down near their opponents' goal were quite unable to make a good try for goal. The Rovers when they returned the ball seemed to use nearly all their men. After about 15 minutes play the Rovers scored a goal very prettily. A second goal was scored by Mercer in a few more minutes, after which the Olympics took a considerable brace and by some very fine individual work scored a goal. The half ended with the score...