Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Better weather for the games could not have been desired, and, as a result, the competition in every event was the keenest that has been seen for years. In no race or field event was the victory one sided. Two records were broken and several others dangerously threatened. Cornell maintained its reputation for sterling distance men by winning the half, mile, and two-mile runs, setting new records in the former and latter races. Caldwell proved to be the "dark horse" in the 880-yard run, beating both Brown of Yale and Meredith of Pennsylvania in 1 minute...
With the unusual number of point winners returning, the competition in all the events cannot but be of the keenest sort. Some idea of the probable results, however, may be gained from a survey of the various events and the men returning in them. Cornell seems to be greatly handicapped, while Pennsylvania, Michigan and Harvard are well fortified...
...year--powerful, aggressive, and versatile--and discontented undergraduate who watched a scoreboard or read a newspaper account know not whereof they speak when they complain of the low score. The Harvard players deserve congratulations for mastering such remarkable opponents. The meagerness of the victory only demonstrates what the keenest critics have said from the beginning; namely, that the team's pathway to the championship has not an advance lining of roses, and that the overwhelming undergraduate assurance, testified to in one way by the enormous odds granted to Princeton supporters, was not justified...
...line, Semmens, Haviland, and Trenkman are the keenest rivals for centre, while Swart, Heyniger and Longstreth as guards and Phillips and Ballin as tackles are all promising candidates...
...Class of 1913 may will congratulate itself, first on the election of committee whose work merits the keenest appreciation, and second because of the Album itself. In the quantity and quality of its pictures, in its literary matter, as well as in its nominal coast to the individual, the Album is on par with any of its recent predecessors...