Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Walter C. Camp, the veteran Yale player, will have an article, entitled "Hints to Foot-Ball Captains," in the January number of Outing. The subject is dealt with from a thoroughly practical point of view...
...announcement that the athletic committee has given its consent to the employment of a professional base-ball player as trainer and coach for our Nine during the coming year will not be a cause of surprise to those who know that the most liberal and progressive members of the faculty have openly favored the plan during the past few years. The three members of the faculty selected to represent that body on the athletic committee, after a patient and thorough investigation of the subject, have been convinced from the numerous letters received from former captains of our base-ball nines...
Several rules were discussed, particularly the one giving the referee power to disqualify players for foul tackling or roughness. The term "unnecessary roughness" was interpreted as including jumping on a prostrate player with the knees. The cases of Cowan and Wurtemburg in the Yale-Princeton game were brought up and their disqualification was declared unnecessary as they did not break the rule so interpreted...
...advisory committee of the football association has interpreted the rule forbidding "unnecessary roughness" to include jumping with the knees on a prostrate player. This is a wise ruling as it will tend to decrease the danger of the game and will necessitate more careful tackling and falling. Every change which,like this one, tends to increase the science of the game without lessening its interest will be welcome as an improvement...
Moffat, the celebrated Princeton base ball and football player, is employed in Boston by the West End Railway Company in connection with its electric road...