Word: irregular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fifthly, the request that "since the Harvard Football Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players the Harvard Football Association make a public retraction of the general charges made against the Princeton management...
...extraordinary misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Association, for which they must alone be held responsible. The Harvard Football Association has not "publicly based its withdrawal from the League upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players." It has made no charges whatever against the Princeton Management, whether "general" or special...
...football management have adopted the principle of discouraging personal attacks upon members of our college teams through the press. But since the Harvard Foot Ball Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players, and since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement to enter college...
...blade work is sloppy. The members of the crew are very absent-minded, and this tends to increase the faults in their rowing form. When the oars are in the water the men lose time in getting their weight on, and do not sweep firmly through; the stroke is irregular, and there are not enough firm oars to keep the boat steady...
...Very irregular and should get better control of himself in better parts of the stroke. He is slow in getting his arms away at the finish...