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Word: brawn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessary to be a good runner. Faithful practice by a man of ordinary aptitude will in any one of these events lead to a degree of proficiency that will enable him to be of use to the team. And yet there are dozens of men with the requisite brawn who are content to do nothing but make their C 's and D's and soak up the heat in College dormitories. Is Captain Bingham's team to suffer, like its predecessors, not from want of stars but from lack of enough men with the proper spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARM-CHAIR ATHLETES. | 1/6/1916 | See Source »

...older graduates a new gymnasium may seem an unnecessary luxury. Are there not excellent facilities at present at Cambridge and is there not danger that athletics may be overdone? Do the humanities demand brawn...

Author: By E. H. Bradford ., | Title: DEAN ON GYMNASIUM | 11/22/1913 | See Source »

...found necessary to postpone the opening of the French College of Athletics at Rheims from May 1 to some date in July recalls to notice a rather remarkable development in athletics, and one which will be followed with attention by all who are interested in the perennial question of brawn in its relation to brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE OF ATHLETICS. | 4/26/1913 | See Source »

...tackle-shift attack, and also in offensive play. From the point of view of next year's team, these are the really significant elements of Saturday's game, for although deplorable and unfortunate to the last degree, fumbling and holding can be corrected, while nobody can teach brain and brawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPEFUL MISFORTUNE. | 11/21/1910 | See Source »

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