Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play of the Harvard team showed marked improvement, especially in offensive work, which was, with one exception, remarkably strong throughout the game. At the close of the first half, however, the fighter Maine eleven held for downs on its own 1-2-yard line. Mills again proved very reliable in the backfield, breaking through the line continually for long gains. The work of Nichols and Reynolds was also noticeably good...
...sometimes been called "war." Possibly they may partake of the nature of war, but we should not forget that after all it is a mimic war, and that the players themselves are perhaps more conscious of this difference than the spectators. Too much is the athlete regarded as a fighter in a great cause, whose efforts must be supported both on and off the field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which has its own necessary function...