Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps 2,500 people saw the game. Harvard colors were plenty but Yale sent up very few supporters. There was very little enthusiasm, though in the second half the Harvard men cheered lustily for their team. The teams were as follows...
...even more beneficial. The interests of Harvard are now too widely scattered; graduates and undergraduates do not understand one another well enough, and a great gathering as at a dinner, always bears good results. Whoever is going to take charge of the affair may as well begin soon for enthusiasm is now at its height...
...think of little except the brilliant game which Harvard won. Men passed one another with smiles on their faces and near neighbors could not help shaking hands. No one about Cambridge can remember such a day and we have no record of a like. At first sight, all this enthusiasm about a mere foot ball game seems the height of absurdity, and we have no doubt that our actions will be criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory. It means that Harvard...
Last night's celebration was the most remarkable one that Cambridge has ever seen. No athletic victory has ever before called out a procession of such length, or decorations on such a scale. It was simply marvelous, so great was the enthusiasm on all sides. But above all we thank President Eliot for his speech, which, since he so seldom speaks on athletic matters, was a great part of the celebration. Those other Professors who spoke will also always be remembered when last evening is spoken of. The evening never will be forgotten by those now in college...
McClung's Touch-down and Goal.McClung, by a good rush, carried it over. He also kicked a very difficult goal, and the enthusiasm of the Yale men knew no bounds. Score, Harvard 12; Yale...