Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rules of the American Inter-Collegiate Association for the season of 1883. Some of these rules seem to the committee to be highly objectionable. Rules 19, 28 and 38, a copy of which I append, appear to allow of no other inference than that the manly spirit of fair play is not expected to govern the conduct of all players, but that on the contrary the spirit of sharpers and of roughs has to be guarded against. The committee believe that the games hotly played under these rules have already begun to degenerate from a manly, if rough, sport into...
...exchanges from Yale, Princeton, Cornell, so seldom agreeing, have all agreed in this matter. Few facts could be more significant of the intellectual tendency of the coming generation today than this; for it will not be denied we think that the undergraduate sentiment of our college is a fair representative of the sentiment of the best minds among the younger part of the community. Few men with minds open to ideas have escaped the influence of Matthew Arnold's thought ; thought so purely typical of the characteristic aspirations, beliefs, and the-ories of the present era of modern life...
...referee in the Princeton game, Mr. Tompkins of Yale, was very fair and impartial, giving the greatest satisfaction to both teams...
...rate condition at the time play was called. Harvard won the toss and chose the west side of the field, from which a light wind was blowing. From the kick-off advantage seemed to turn in Harvard's favor and soon Cowling made a try-at-goal from a fair catch. The kick was extremely difficult and the ball passed a few feet outside the posts. Shortly after another trial was made but the ball rebounded from a Princeton rusher and was soon at the foot of our posts. In a maul-in-goal which followed, Kimball of Princeton secured...
...original fund for the support of the Society is now about exhausted, but the executive committee hope to secure a permanent fund, to which $67,000 has already been contributed, so that the Society is in a fair way of becoming a fixed institution...