Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could well be proud. Cliques and gangs fought hard among themselves, and when all was over, the string of vituperation rankled on both sides. In latter days, these crude and unskillful methods have been discarded perhaps for those of a subtler and more effective nature; and the advent of cleaner, less personal contests seemed to be in sight...
...charging in, and making bodily contact by the third man going into the play. It is a personal foul in the amateur rules, four of which retire the player from the game. It is a mighty good rule too, as it serves to make the game much faster and cleaner...
...chief fault of both teams was in the inaccurate passing and a tendency of their guards to overrun their men. The second half was much cleaner than the initial period, only one foul play being marked up against the University while the Freshmen made five...
...this point and if so the long sought clash between the two may at last be realized. In that event football would come into its own: sport devotees would be privileged to witness a real blood and iron world's series, something a little new but something cleaner, more wholesome, and entirely untainted from professionalism or commercialization. It would be a fine boon to the sport world...
...probably because its very physical nature brings out the best in men. Last Saturday the crowds applauded Boynton not only because his playing was spectacular, but because it was also the clean playing of a gentleman. Coach Moran of Centre College boasts that Harvard will never have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that the gentleman's code applied only...