Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Johnson. Newspapers have so utterly misrepresented the game as to make it appear to the general public a diminutive war, into which the contesting sides go with the avowed intention of maiming bodies, dislocating joints and other similar features such as characterize a modern rough-and-tumble prize-fight. A football game is not marked by such butchery, nor is it devoid of manly and courageous characteristics. The author opens with the question of the legitimacy of its being called the American game of foot-ball rather than the Rugby because the students of the various American colleges 'have...
...winners in all but the finals, which will be the best three out of five. Messrs. Brinley of Trinity, Thatcher of Yale, and Sears and Shaw of Harvard are among the entries. Some close and exciting matches may be looked for, and Harvard's representatives will make a strong fight to wrest the championship from Brinley of Trinity, who now holds...
YALE, 5; HARVARD, 4.One of the closest games ever played on Holmes Field took place on the 26th of last June. The result of the game gave the championship to Yale, but Harvard succumbed only after a most stubborn fight. The game was won and lost by both teams over and over, and only the most brilliant plays on the part of both nines at critical points prolonged the game to its thirteenth inning. The Yale men showed the result of their course of severe training, for they played throughout with great steadiness. Harvard was handicapped by the lameness...
...interesting match was played on Saturday between the 'Varsity and Freshman cricket elevens, and though the former won, the Freshmen deserve a great deal of credit for their good fight...
...their second innings the Freshmen made a much larger score, owing to the brilliant batting of Captain Brown, whose 55 was obtained by hard, clean hitting; Quinby and Captain Ellis distinguished themselves in the bowling line. Had time allowed, the Freshmen might have given the 'Varsity a very close fight for victory. Below is the score...