Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...parlor game is clearly impossible. Nor ought it to be abolished, for as the most popular sport in the colleges and schools it has possibilities greater than those of any other game now used in this country. But some modification of the rules by which the probability of several fatal accidents in each season may be removed ought to be made before next fall...
...favor of Harvard, on account of the sad injury to acting-captain Byrne of the Army team. Cadet Eugene A. Byrne was playing left tackle, he had been bearing the brunt of the Harvard attack, and the strain had begun to tell on him. On the fatal play, a line plunge just outside left guard, the Harvard back, aided by two or three of his team-mates, had gained a few yards when Byrne dove head foremost in front of the men. In some way his head was caught so that it was bent under his chest as the players...
...shorter race, and its strength and staying power are counted on to win for Harvard at New London. It is even believed by some that last Saturday's defeat will be of real advantage to the eight, as tending to do away with the overconfidence which has proved fatal to so many college athletic teams...
...battle of Antietam, Colonel Lowell received the honor of carrying the captured flags to Washington. While fighting with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he was wounded in the chest. Despite this wound he charged a village held by sharp-shooters at the head of his troop, receiving a fatal wound in the neck. General Sheridan said of Colonel Lowell "I never had to tell Colonel Lowell what to do. He had always seen it and done it before I told...
...miles the crew has abundant speed, and there is reason to believe that they can go the full course equally fast. The results so far have given the University that confidence in the crew's ability that is as necessary to victory as too much confidence is fatal...