Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...severely handicapped by the injury of five of her players, including the captain, two backs and the centre rush, and that the team played the game they did under such disheartening circumstances does them the highest credit. The grim determination with which they kept up a plucky uphill fight when all hope of winning was practically gone, showed a spirit of which Harvard's supporters may well be proud...
From start to finish the men made a gallant fight and certainly nothing pluckier was ever seen on the football field than the magnificent spurt which the team made just before time was called. Luck played an important part in the game and it was invariably against...
...moment the tide turns it either ceases or becomes much like a discouraging cry of "No use, no use, no use, Harvard." And yet, this is in reality the only time when cheering can be of use. It is the time when every player is called to fight with an indescribable "gone" feeling. Any one who knows anything of human nature, let alone athletics, knows that it is at this moment that whip and spur are needed. A stirring cheer may change the result of the game. We honestly believe that half-hearted support of athletic teams on the field...
...HANSON, G. P. A.EVERY Harvard man will want to read what Everett J. Lake, the famous halfback of the Harvard eleven, has to say in the next Boston Sunday Journal about the Yale eleven, its weakness, its strength, its chances and the possible lines upon which Captain Hinckey will fight his battles. Mr. Lake has been engaged expressly by the Boston Journal to report the Harvard-Yale and Harvard-University of Pennsylvania games...
...best race of the day was the half mile run. For the first quarter the men were well bunched, then Williams, Corbin and Sawyer drew away from the field and the three made a game fight on the home stretch. Williams finally won in 2.07, Corbin second with Sawyer third...