Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contact, is that the present evils in the game of football are in no wise an essential part of the sport, and can, therefore, be eradicated by some such means as those proposed by Mr. Emmons. It is believed that the Faculty is acting most inadvisably in adopting such drastic measures against the game as the vote recently reported indicates. The abolition of intercollegiate contests in football for Harvard means that the game will die so far as that college is concerned. The results that followed the forbidding of games with other colleges in 1885, are a sufficient proof...
...held in New Haven on Saturday, attended by Walter Camp, S. J. Elder of Boston and some fifteen members of the Yale academic and scientific faculties, to talk over the football question. While a number of the faculty present expressed no opinion, and two or three favored either drastic measures against football or important modifications of the rules, the burden of opinion as expressed was against interference with the game. One ground for this seemed to be that Yale, in the case of the Springfield game, had been unduly charged with violence as compared with Harvard, and that official interference...