Word: rightnesses
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Well, it is rather hard to commit one's self on such a proposition as the foregoing. How would the league sound? It might sound all right one way and then again it might not; for instance to a student from that cradle of athletics - the University of Pennsylvania - it might sound all right. There is melody in the name Pennsylvania; then, too, the derivation of the word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very...
...foot-ball season. Yet any one who has, knows to his cost how far behind the others he is when he comes into training work. How short of wind he is! How tired he gets! In a week or two more he is, so he thinks, all right. But by the first of November he has a fit of the "blues" or does not sleep; and he wonders why he has got over-trained...
...second round was characterized by the same activity and the same tendency to hit without reaching home. Grew got in several good right-handers in this round...
...third round opened at a tremendous temperature. Again Grew got in some good right-handers, and forced the fighting. Throughout the three rounds the honors had been fairly even, but Grew sparred in much better form than Coolidge and he was consequently awarded the bout. The entries in the event for next Saturday will be Clement, '88, L. S.; Thayer, '88; Grew, '89, and Dame...
...third round was opened briskly by Curtis who landed his right and left on Ashe's jaw several times without getting hit in return. Ashe suddenly gathered himself up for a last effort and visited Curtis with a right and left. These he followed with a right on the jaw which knocked Curtis off his feet. When time was called Curtis made one rally, but at the first hard blow he received he went down and was unable to finish the round. The cup was awarded to Ashe. Curtis was very plucky, and his reappearance a few minutes after...