Word: brawn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game only by courtesy, in reality it will prove work. The freshman teams of previous years have set '92 an example which it is their duty to follow. In doing this, confidence will be helpful but overconfidence disastrous. Careful, hard work will prove quite as necessary as pure brawn. In fact, the team must rely almost wholly upon the former because of their light weight. If our freshmen win, they will deserve the congratulations and thanks of the college; if they lose, we sincerely hope that there will be no occasion for our finding fault...
...about the victories in which Yale's standard has been carried so valiantly to the fore. But, while you so generously insist on giving so much credit to the 'Cook Stroke,' let me remind you that the most scientific principles would have gone for nothing without the skill and brawn, the splendid discipline and the unswerving confidence of the men in the value of these principles...
...team is lacking. The Princeton team of a year ago were so trained in passing, and especially passing when tackled that six men would assist in making one rush, before the ball was finally declared down. What our team needs to do is not to make a collection of brawn and muscle, of future blacksmiths and stone-crackers, but to cultivate the style and science of real foot-ball. We believe Mr. Brooks will work foot-ball for all it is worth, and that he will teach the team all he knows or can learn; but the style of Harvard...
...attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot but trumpet the accomplishments of their classic followers to the notice and admiration of an expectant world. Local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories. In the meanwhile, there are earnest and conscientious students who value college for the mental as well as the muscular training it provides, and that Harvard will have...
...Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments. The outside world seems to think that Harvard men are afflicted at heart with an indifference about all that is serious. But this conception of our character is decidedly...