A fast runner and good kicker who could get the ball a little outside of the line of his antagonists could often make great progress with it across the field before he was intercepted.

It was allowable to trip up one of the other side by thrusting the foot before him.

But touching an opponent with the hand would have been resented as an assault and insult.

The best foot-ball players were not the strongest men but the swiftest runners, as a rule.
The practice of hazing freshmen during a few weeks after their entering was carried on sometimes under circumstances of a good deal of cruelty.

One boy in my class was visited by a party of sophomores, treated with a good deal of indignity, and his feelings extremely outraged.