Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...abandon a game the esthetic possibilities of which are so great as those of foot ball. If the Harvard Athletic Committee will but think of the pleasing combinations of color and the artistic roupangs possible in a game of foot ball, and instead of shuddering at it as a "brutal prize fight," consider it in the light of a "study in orange and black," or a "symphony in blue and crimson," we feel confident that they will withdraw their objections and let it live.-[Courant...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -At the foot ball meeting held last evening, a committee of five gentlemen was appointed to alter the present rules of foot ball, in such a manner as to make the game less dangerous and brutal. I would like, through your columns, to make a suggestion as to these changes...
...referee from foul plays of their own side, should not belong to either of the contesting colleges. I think that, if the two judges and the referee were all non-partisan, and all worked in the interest of fair play, the game would no longer be the dangerous and brutal (?) exhibition...
...protest against any rash condemnation of the game. I am sadly aware that the present tendency is to emasculate all games and exercises, and frown on strength and courage as old fashioned things, relics of the dark ages; to teach our youth that all games requiring these qualities are brutal and degrading...
...apply in both cases. The conditions for all would then be fairer, and scientific training and skilful playing would then be far more important elements of the game than they are at present. Join this to the reforms of the game which will do away with its unfair, brutal and unmanly elements, and we may again play the game at Harvard...