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...snapped the ball to Hammond who carried it forward five or six feet, where Harvard made a solid block with ten of her men, leaving only the quarter-back behind the line. The ball was then passed back to Mason, and as the thousand spectators held their breath he sent it flying over the bar, thereby winning the game, just four minutes before time was up. Then the pent-up enthusiasm of the crowd burst forth, and cheer on cheer went up, making the wildest confusion until time was called and the game decided; then they rushed bodily into...
...general features of the game are the same today as they were centuries ago. The players were not allowed to touch the ball with their hands; the body-checking was about the same, a little more vigorous perhaps; when a goal was made the ball was sent back to be thrown up in the centre of the field. On the other hand, the number of players was much larger then than now, sometimes as many as three hundred; the distance between the goals was usually 500 or 600 yards. In those early days the exercise was thought...
...hips, the arms close to the upper ribs and the fists closed, but in mere exercise it is best to give your arms more freedom, and to work them back and forward, in order to bring the muscles of the shoulders into play. The legs should be sent from the hips in as straight a line as possible, and when they come down their hold of the ground should be firm, so as to use the muscles of the thighs to the best advantage. Those who have become famous on the cinder path, or those who resort to running...
...Saturday and Sunday the Y. M. C. A. convention of the colleges of New Jersey met here. Delegates were also sent by Yale and Lafayette. Considerable interest in the meeting seemed to be felt in a portion of the college. Dr. McCloud of Brooklyn preached a very powerful sermon in the chapel on Sabbath morning...
...Yale, as it perhaps does at Harvard. We have no professional trainer here among us to watch over and direct the movements of our athletes. It is true we have had not quite the need of one that Harvard has, since it is not until recently that we have sent men to Mott Haven. In that branch of athletics careful training is most required. Therefore the professionalism that Harvard has to deplore from that source is not found here. There was this difference, then, in the circumstances of the two colleges, lying in the presence of a professional trainer among...