Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...themselves to look forward in a half-hearted way to the remaining games, it means that we have not yet begun to learn the first lesson of defeat. There is strong reason for belief that this lesson has been learned. It was taught if never before by the stubborn fight at Springfield a year ago after all reasonable probability of victory was gone...
...held some moonlight night on the grass in front of Witherspoon Hall. Three men from each class, a heavy weight, middle weight and light weight, contested in pairs for the possession of a stout stick called by courtesy a cane. Of later years the thing degenerated into a free fight and the faculty refused to allow it any longer at night, so it was made a part of the fall handicap games. Last spring Scribner's published a book by Jesse L. Williams '92, entitled "Princeton Stories" and in it was described in an interesting way the old cane spree...
...centre of the line was strong and the Williams's backs could seldom gain through it. Shaw did the best work, and once stopped a kick. The weakest place in the line was between Rice and Stevenson, and several good gains were made here. Stevenson was too ready to fight with the man opposite him. He was repeatedly carried off his feet through his inattention to the game, and caused Harvard to lose the ball several times by off-side playing. Haughton took Stevenson's place in the second half and made a heartily poor exhibition of himself...
...second half the Crescent's put up another game fight and kept the Yale men from scoring again for 10 minutes. Then by constant line breaking and slippery runs around the ends. Thorne, Dewitt and Jerrems gradually worked the ball down to Crescent's line, where Jerrems dashed through the centre for a second touchdown...
...choir sang the following anthems: "Fight the Good Fight" by Parker; "O Lord our Governor" by Marcello; and "Peace and Light" by Chadwick...