Word: cools
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of the year it is evident that foot-ball has taken a higher standing. It tends constantly towards hard, cool, individual play on the part of every man, the whole centered in the field captain or quarter-back. Princeton was not weaker than in previous years, but the others were stronger. Her eleven played their usual strong, well-practiced game, but the individual men with two or three exceptions were not equal to her opponents. Yale, as she always does, sent a team into the field with a dogged determination to win, and as always they played a magnificent...
...accident to Captain Holden arose to the emergency. They played to win. Those who had been sluggish before became marvellously active, and every man appreciated thoroughly the fact that if he relaxed one muscle, the work of the past weeks would be rendered futile. To this comprehension, the cool playing and admirable judgement of Mr. Harding afforded the requisite stamina for a victory, and the college class join unanimously in one expression of approbation for him and the men who obeyed his orders with all their mind and bodily strength...
...whole Harvard played a cool game, although most of the work was done by the battery. Brown's battery, on the other hand, was conspicuously weak...
...result of yesterday's game was more than the most sanguine could expect. The nine played an admirable game at the bat and a variable game - both brilliant and bad in the field. Our battery worked with wonderful effect and the whole nine showed snap and cool calculation at the right moments. Such a victory as we gained yesterday recalls our career on the diamond two years ago and makes us look to the final result of the series with more assurance. Every man in the nine should receive warm applause of the whole college...
...third time Harvard came up looking cool and confident. In less than a minute New York's goal was in danger. Harvard made a "shy" for goal, but Matthews stopped it and threw the ball into the centre. Back it came, however, and before New York realized it Harvard made her second goal on Hale's throw. Time...