Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Coach Murphy said that the Yale team is the best one which has been developed at New Haven for six years and is going to fight Hard. The Harvard team has shown steady improvement in fielding, base-running and team work and the Holy Cross game although a defeat, was, from a Harvard standpoint, the most game this year. Hitting is still the team's weak point and the confidence which will remedy this defect will be given by hearty cheering...
...general exhortations to economy though they serve to remind us of a duty which we must never forget, and which it is a constant fight to enforce in detail, still they are of no great aid unless accompanied by suggestions of a more specific nature...
...both coaches and players. Some players, to be sure, are never guilty of them, and some are only guilty of them when they lose their tempers; but others are habitually guilty of them." The common justification offered for these "hateful conditions," President Eliot says, is that football is a fight and that its strategy and ethics are those of war. New tricks are always desirable as surprises; the weaker man is the legitimate prey of the stronger. "One should always try to discover the weakest man in the opponent's line, as, for example, the man most recently injured...
...fight is a severe one, but we who are the beneficiaries of Christianity should not refuse it to others, and remembering the biblical command to "go unto all the world and preach the gospel to every creature," we should make Christ's kingdom universal...
...greater experience the line men played a far better game than they were believed to be capable of; and when Yale's powerful mass plays succeeded in penetrating the line, the secondary defense repeatedly threw the runner back for no gain or a loss. For its plucky, unflinching, uphill fight continued only more resolutely when defeat had become certain, the team cannot receive too high praise. Throughout the game, in its remarkable defensive strength, its glimpses of a powerful attack, and its indomitable spirit, the Harvard team showed possibilities which if rightly developed would almost surely have won victory instead...