Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground." For some time previous to the contest, the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football, compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm over the new Rugby rules in the various colleges, and it was a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series began in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says: "Football will be a popular game here in the future. The Rugby game is in much...
Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 49,000 spectators today...
...fact that there is no "give and take" between the minds of professor and students. The former occupies an aloof, oracular position, delivering himself to a non-receptive audience of the ideas he has worked out alone or the facts he has collected. The latter listen without enthusiasm and dully set down in notes what they think they hear. In those cases where the lecturer, through his personality or power of popularizing, arouses unusual interest, a theatrical burst of applause betrays the peculiar attitude engendered by the platform lecture...
...held for many years. Over 2.500 men were in line, and they were headed by the cheer leaders and a band. Red torches were lighted before the parade halted in front of the gymnasium. Captain Wilson and Coach Sheviln spoke amid what the Yale News called "the most tremendous enthusiasm show in years...
...watched each play of the Harvard-Princeton football contest, from the CRIMSON's direct wire from the Palmer Stadium. A blackboard gridiron was set up on the platform so that each play could be shown. At intervals the Union orchestra played football songs and popular music, and the enthusiasm in the Living Room was almost as great as the enthusiasm of the eye witnesses...