Word: enthusiasm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...football career by brilliant and spirited playing and, like him, the other members of the team gave every atom of their strength. In technique Yale's playing was a tribute to the excellent coaching of Mr. Howard Jones. A second year under such competent instructions with the same irrepressible enthusiasm among all undergraduates and graduates will give Yale a football season that is really "satisfactory...
...with good promise. The material is good and there is plenty of it; that is, if all who are in any way capable of doing anything in the way of the game are on the ice today. We refrain from making the same old points about practice being necessary, enthusiasm on the part of the students being essential, etc. Undergraduates realize all these things. We should be very sad if they surprised us by failing to provide any of the requisites. And besides we have another chance at Yale and Princeton in the three-game series; and Dartmouth...
...University football team. Never was a cleaner, harder, or more finished game of football seen on any field, than that of the team which Saturday indelibly wrote its name in Harvard history. The spectacle of that eleven, outplaying Yale at almost every moment, backed by the enthusiasm of ten thousand Harvard men, was the climax of a season of Harvard spirit and success such as this college generation, at least, cannot recall. From whistle to whistle the watchword was "Fight," and Harvard is proud of a team that could honorably represent her with this motto...
...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 among the colleges in the new Rugby rules, and it was a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series was begun 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...
...attention was paid this contest by the general 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 47,000 spectators today...