Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is one thing however, which is more important than winning and which alone makes a victory mean anything. If today's game is for a moment anything but clean and manly football, it would be far better for the sport that it were not played, and not a few would feel like losing faith in their own expressed convictions as to the healthiness of the game. We have every reason to expect that the contest will be beyond all question in this regard...
...University joins heartily with Ninety-nine in congratulating the freshman eleven on the good, clean victory which they won in Philadelphia on Saturday. Playing almost unsupported on strange grounds, they did not allow these disadvantages to discourage them but went into the game with a spirit which would have done them credit on Soldiers Field. We assure all the members of the team that their efforts in the game and during the season's training are thoroughly appreciated. The substitutes are not less worthy of praise for the indispensable part they have had in the development of the eleven...
...play though hard, was clean throughout, and the officials were strict in enforcing the penalties for holding and off-side play...
...address this letter to you in order that no possible ambiguity may remain. There is a pride Yale will not pay for college sports. She considers them worth preserving with competitors in whose sportsmanship she has confidence, and who have reciprocal confidence in her sportsmanship. This also means her clean, honorable, forbearing rivalry on every field. She was led to doubt whether Harvard still extended that confidence in her. If Harvard did not, if there was danger that these old struggles would lead to constant disagreement, she believed they should cease. It was to settle this question that my letter...
After Letton had gone out on a fly to Paine, Quinby made a clean two base hit to center field. Quinby tried to take third base, but Paine made a beautiful throw to McVey and the latter got the ball to Winslow in time to put the runner out. Greenway made a single, but Rustin hit a fly to Stevenson. For Harvard, Stevenson was given a base on balls but he got no farther than first base. Yale and Harvard both went out in order in the third inning...