Word: fought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foot ball interests of Harvard have been taken in charge by a man who has shown in many a hard fought contest that he understands the game thoroughly. He is a man who will do his utmost to increase the advantage which Harvard has already gained, and in whom graduates and undergraduates have confidence...
...short time ago there appeared in the Boston Post a letter from President Warren of Boston University relative to the shortening of the course at Harvard. Nearly three years ago President Warren had predicted that the next great struggle in defence of higher education would be fought on the abbreviation of the A. B. course from four years to three. As his prophecy had come true he wished to state certain reasons why the course should not be abbreviated. His first arguments had to do with the present low standard of requirements for admission to Harvard. To quote...
Those who are fortunate enough to see the Yale-Princeton game tomorrow will witness another hard fought and close contest. On the form shown by the two teams in the games played so far the chances would seem to be in favor of Yale. But Princeton has been exceedingly unfortunate all fall; at no time since the middle of October has Captain Poe been able to put his strongest team into the field. Princeton will still be seriously handicapped when she meets Yale on account of the loss of Black and Hayden; the others who have been on the injured...
...eleven ever won a harder fought or better deserved victory than did Harvard at Springfield Saturday. The victory is not the result of one year's training alone; it is the consummation of the work begun here years ago. It has been a long, hard and often a discouraging lesson, this learning of the game of football. Three times of late years we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance...
...thousands of voices, joined in the general chorus of welcome. When the Yale team arrived a few minutes later, Yale men vied with Harvard enthusiasts in cheering their favorites. Both teams went at their practice with a determination which told plainly how the game was to be fought...