Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conclusion of the meeting Captain Foster said that it is every candidate's duty to keep off probation. It is just as bad to break training mentally as physically...
...being the most consistent ground-gainer and the hardest man on the field to stop, he was ever alert on the defence and backed up the line in faultless fashion. Except for his fumbling Corbett played his usual dashing game, and on tackle plays showed great ability to break through the opposing line. Leslie, who played for the first time since the Williams game, was strong on the defence and seemed quick in sizing up Yale plays. Felton was put in the backfield at the last moment to force Yale back by punting, and his work in this department...
Smash them and break through...
...courage, he put out a series of papers filled with large learning, aggressive originality, popular sympathy, and delightful language. Through continual practice he had made himself the master of a style which so fascinated the reader by its clearness and pungency that he was able by its aid to break down the distinction between technical and popular appeal, and render abstract subjects intelligible to the common man. Whatever he wrote, said, or did, was instinct with abounding life. Whether readers agreed with his books or dissented, all perceived that they vitalized their subjects. Several obliged a kind of new departure...
...break training mentally--that is, to be put on probation--in no way differs from breaking training physically. The effect upon a team is the same, and except in very rare instances the one is as willful an act as the other. The man who is barred from competition by the College Office is as contemptible as the man who is expelled from the squad by the coaches. The mental responsibility of an "H" man is as great as the physical and a betrayal of either deserves the same condemnation...