Word: credited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finished and such suggestions are useless. The contest became one in which Harvard relied on her weight entirely, using but a single trick. The disorganization of the Princeton team left her at a great disadvantage and the fight became an up-hill one. Every man on the team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very end of the match. As to the decision of the referee, it surpasses in unfairness anything we have ever seen on the foot-ball field. He over stepped the limits of his office when he disqualified a player for unintentional foul tackling.- Princetonian...
...Wesleyan, Beattys, the captain and quarter-back, Manchester and Slayback, did good work. As to Harvard, the whole team should have the credit of playing good foot-ball. If the men continue to do conscientious work, there is no reason why we should not have a fair chance to beat Yale and Princeton...
...known that we echo the opinion of every one who witnessed the game with Wesleyan last Saturday when we say that Captain Holden deserves the highest credit which an athletic captain can receive, for the energy he has displayed and which has resulted in putting foot-ball at Harvard upon a scientific basis. Material has never been wanting here. All that was needed was perseverance and some mind that could plan. This has been found and no longer can the championship in foot-ball be considered without any mention of Harvard...
...that the track athletes have had an opportunity of exhibiting their skill and the results of their fall training, and have retired from the field with great credit and glory, our athletic interests all seem to converge towards the foot-ball team, and the tests of its strength and ability are observed with anxiety. The game with the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, was a great di-appointment to us all, although our team showed signs of improvement in certain branches of their work. The blocking was poor and the fumbling of the ball was something to be deplored...
...tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body was raised without respect to its weight. A tenth of the weight was taken in order to reduce the number of figures that would result from the multiplication. The girths...