Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tufts '87, the captain of the base-ball nine, has had the notice bulletined that all candidates for the team are to take daily exercise and practise in the gymnasium. The freshmen class has a large number of good players, and the prospects for the coming season are very fair...
...involved was one that could not possibly be answered off-hand, the natural inference would be that Princeton was not especially desirous of having an extra game, but wished to throw the responsibility for an unsettled championship upon Yale. This may not be the case; but it is a fair inference from the facts before us. On the other hand, it is certainly unfortunate that Yale should have neglected to answer a communication of such importance, even if her reply had been merely to state that the first telegram had not been received in time to take action upon...
...decision of the convention on last Saturday evening in New York seems as a whole to be satisfactory and fair to both colleges. It is better to have no championship whatever than to have an unfair one, and make the already strong feeling between the colleges still stronger. It would have been unfair to award the championship to Yale on the strength of the Yale-Princeton game, for the weather, the condition of the ground and the darkness during the last half would not permit the strong points of either team to be brought out. At the same time...
...Yale gets the ball. Morrison carries the ball twenty-five yards in two runs and then it goes back ten yards. Perry stops Wurtemberg and Morrison, and Woods throws Ireland. Morrison kicks to Sears who cannot return it. Harding, Perry and Hunnewell gain no ground, and Sears kicks fair, Yale getting the ball. Morrison runs across the field, gaining little, but the ball is at our twenty-five yard line now. Piper stops Ireland and the ball goes back ten yards. Wurtemburg runs outside. Woods stops Morrison and Piper downs Ireland. Back ten yards. Higginson throws Hanson. Morrison kicks...
...Sears and returned. Yale's down. Yale cannot force the ball ahead and it is Harvard's ball. Piper gains five yards, Perry, ten yards, and before anyone realizes it the ball goes over the line again. The try for goal was a failure and Harvard gets the ball fair on the five-yard line. It is brought out fifteen yards and forced across the line again. No goal...