Word: fights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that will entitle it to public favor. The game is still a violent struggle, where beef counts for almost everything. Two lines of seven men each stand opposed, and what do they do, or rather what do they not do? They push, jostle, wrestle, block, kick, pull, tear and fight with each other. Football is still a game in which men undergo the risk of injury, and serious injury. To quote one example, five out of the twenty-two men in the Harvard-Yale game had to retire from the field on account of their injuries. Faces were badly battered...
PRINCETON, N. J. The game played this afternoon was called after a stubborn fight, in the second half without either team having scored a point. The game was one of the most stubbornly contested for years. Both teams showed steady and at times brilliant play. The weight of the Princeton men was compensated for by the close team play and steady support of each other shown by the men from New Haven...
...Harvard scored another touchdown and Brooks kicked this goal. The ball then came to the middle of the field and was rushed by Tufts down to their opponents goal. Peabody, however, soon started it back, and it was soon inside Tufts' 25-yard line again. Then came a fight of ten minutes, in which our men did the poorest playing of the game. Ames, the left half-back of the Tufts team runs low, and it is astonishing how the high tackling of our men showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under...
...much they may feel it, Harvard men generally do not display outwardly as much loyalty to their university as they might. We should be like the old noble families. They would discuss and damn the faults and disagreeable occurrences en famille, but out in the world every member would fight to the death for the honor of the family name. Noblesse oblige. Of course we have wrongs which must be righted, and grievances to complain of. We call the athletic directors hard names because they interfere with our hearts, and the same to college fathers because they interfere with...
...defence had very little to do after the first ten minutes. The attack did very well in the second half when they had to fight against ten out of twelve of the opposing team. Hood and Dudley were particularly active in securing the ball for Harvard. Hagan of the Independents played a very skillful game...