Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot end this report without comment on the Yale-Harvard football game of 1922. We call a game of football clean when the participants avoid dirty play. If in the violence of the contest, one or two men lose for a moment their self-control. We are inclined to forgive them. At some games we wonder that, in a fierce physical encounter, our hot-blooded youth can be trained to keep their tempers as well as they do. The game of 1922 combined the intensity of football with the chivalry of tennis. Cheer leaders, bands, coaches, players vied with...
Tripling the score of its nearest competitor, winning seven out of eight first places, and making a clean sweep in the shop-put and 45-yard low hurdles, the Freshman track team last Saturday swamped two visiting Boston schools in the first meet of the season with a final score of 51 points. English High School registered five points in the 1000-yard run, won by McKillock, and captured enough second and third places to bring her total up to 17, while Boston Latin School took second in the 600 and last in the relay race for a score...
...fastest game thus far this season the University quintet defeated the Knox College five from Galesburg, Ill., by a score of 33 to 29, keeping its slate for the season clean while Knox on its eastern trip has won two and lost two games...
...changed to number four on Team A. They will play D. M. Gilmore 3L, and F. W. Crocker 2L., respectively, at 3.30 o'clock on Courts 14 and 7. F. I. Carpenter '24 will play D. P. Kingsley 2L. at 4 o'clock. The Crimson players must make a clean sweep of the match in order to have a chance for the league championship...
...their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew nothing of navigation and naval technique was of less importance than that "their minds were alert, their hearts filled with an intense enthusiasm for the cause, their souls clean, and their bodies ready for the most exhausting tasks. So much was I in pressed by the demonstration of the ability of these young men and their ready initiative in responding to training that whenever I get to talking of the American college boys and other civilians in the navy...