Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then again it would probably stimulate kicking, and especially long passes toward the ends as well as end running. The wedge play is not all brute force. The large college teams showed them as models of skill and clever head work. The wedge should stay in football, but a provision of some kind should insure a necessity of other play during a contest. It ought to be a possible play, but not all the play, and legislation which will induce the captain for the interest of his team to use other plays as well, is the legislation that will...
...sport, and to the credit of Harvard as originator. In proposing the abolition of the tug-of-war and the substitution of the safety for the ordinary bicycle race. Harvard was prompted by the spirit which is governing all pure athletics of the present day. The mere trial of brute strength has ceased to be the main object of sport, and greater precautions are being taken to secure the safety of the competitors from unnecessary accidents. It was in this spirit of having athletics a trial of skill and merit unattended by needless risk, that Harvard made her propositions...
...brute strength the present freshman crew is no doubt far above the average; but some of the men look clumsy and it would be rash to say that the crew will be fast or that the big men will be the ones chosen for the races. The men are not at all definitely chosen. Constant changes are made. The men who rowed on the first crew yesterday were, stroke, Keyes, 161; 7, Davis 160; 6, Vail 180; 5, Kelton 193; 4, Earle 163; 3, Wood 159; 2, Hathaway 151, 1, Cummings 171. The average of this crew...
...force of their pushing and the violence of their kicking, they made it unpleasant for the scrubs to stop the onslaught in a scrimmage. It became necessary therefore for these lighter men to discover some way by which they might accomplish by brains what they could not achieve by brute strength. The plan they adopted was to have the men in the centre of the rushline, as soon as the scrimmage commenced, while endeavoring just as much to stop the pushing forward by their adversaries, to let the ball come through at the very first kick. The result of this...