Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any Athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the College organization or from any permanent amateur association of which he was at the time a member, the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in Athletic...
...student in a New England college are just now about double the average yearly wages of a workingman. The gulf between the rich and the poor is considerably widening in America, and if this continues it will soon be impossible for the poor man's son to gain a college education in any other character than that of a "subsidized embryo preacher...
...that where our rivals have not been physically superior, the discrepancy has been made up by excellent management. He thinks that the "talk about college loyalty in athletics is nonsense," that what we need is more love for athletic sports, not more loyalty. He thinks that Harvard will soon gain the upper hand by better management and better training...
Harvard had the west end of the field with the sun and wind at her back, and Yale was in possession of the ball. Yale opened the game with a V, Barbour holding the ball; by this maneuver they gained ten yards. Upton broke through the Yale line finely on the next two scrimmages, and prevented any gain. Yale could not gain the necessary five yards by the next rush, so the ball went to Harvard. It was passed to Fearing who ran around the end and gained twenty-five yards. Several short rushes followed. Upton then took the ball...
...second half began at 3.15, Harvard having the ball. Kendricken gained ten yards. Trafford punted well, and Dibblee's beautiful tackle forced Bliss to have the ball down on Yale's five yard line. Owsley's excellent kicking averted the danger from Yale's goal for a short time, but Frothingham and Fearing soon brought the ball back again into dangerous proximity to Yale's goal. Davis was doing good work in the line at this time. Often he broke through and prevented Yale's backs from making any gain. The ball was now on Yale's twenty yard line...