Word: brace
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when Woodman took the ball and passed to Noble, who was quickly thrown. Porter made another rush and passed to Crocker, who got a touch-down. Hallowell made a good play at this point compelling '89 to make a safety. There was now an inclination among the freshmen to brace, and for the last five minutes play was forced towards '88's goal but not near enough to cause excitement. Time was called, with the score 38 to 0 in favor of '88. Mr. Kimball, '86, was referee...
...somewhat disheartened by the result of the Southboro game. While this is not at all surprising, we must warn the freshmen that, by going into a game with a feeling that defeat is certain, nothing else than that will ever crown their efforts. By taking a brace to-morrow at the start, - not putting it off till the score is too large large against them to be overcome, and by playing with a firm determination to win, we have every reason to expect that the score of Saturday will be reversed and a victory won, which will be worthy...
...feel their position with reference to foot-ball rather desperate. Nothing has been more familiar in past years than for our freshman foot-ball elevens and base-ball nines to encounter defeat at the outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary end. It would be strange, indeed, if eighty-nine did not possess sufficient and suitable material to form...
...beaten after a wretched game. Their opponents were much lighter than they, and should have been easily handled; but the freshmen seemed afraid of the ball and muffed and passed wretchedly. St. Marks scored in the first half pretty much as it pleased, but '89 took a decided brace in in the last part of the second half which would have won the game had it been begun sooner. At the close of the second half the score stood 12 to 9 against '89. Goodhue, of St. Marks, played almost the whole game for them, distinguishing himself by some phenomenal...
...sports and the game, could do so at the beginning by an easily made arrangement between the B. B. A., and the H. A. A. The freshman nine deserves all the recognition possible at the hands of the college, for they have thus far shown their ability to "brace" by hard work, and not by any special ability of their own: if, therefore, they should lose this game through half hearted suppor here, they would certainly stand a poor chance of winning one at Yale in the face of an organized system of universal howling...