Word: overwhelm
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Brown comes to Cambridge with brass bands and cheering sections, flushed with the recent victory at Philadelphia; confident that this season's one ambition, namely, to defeat Harvard, will be fulfilled as surely as was last year's determination to overwhelm Yale. All Providence comes to Cambridge to behold the probable victory, knowing full well the exact power of the eleven tried and chosen...
...said that the reason Yale won was because eleven Harvard men played against 20,000 Yale men filled with the 'Yale spirit.' This statement has been true in this coming event, the tables can be turned. We must become saturated with the true 'Harvard spirit' which can and will overwhelm any 'Yale spirit' which Yale can muster. We must saturate ourselves with the 'Harvard spirit,' not of the vintage which says, 'O Hell, we will win; let's have another drink,' but with the 'Harvard spirit' which spells determination to win. Let us all concentrate our minds on this...
...attack to the wrong place. These rules of action are all justifiable, and even necessary, in the consummate savagery called war, in which the immediate object is to kill and disable as many of the enemy as possible. To sur prise, ambuscade, and deceive the enemy, and invariably to overwhelm a smaller force by a greater one, are the expected methods of war. But there is no justification for such methods in a manly game or sport between friends. They are essentially ungenerous, and no sport is wholesome in which ungenerous and mean acts, which easily escape detection, contribute...
...opponents of the plan have been proceeding on the supposition then that the five members of the Faculty proposed as stockholders are either incompetent or dishonest, or both. They suggest vague misfortunes which are likely to overwhelm the Society as soon as the stockholders get control. But they do not point to any specific harm that is likely to befall, and if they stop to think a moment, they will see how absurd such a supposition is. Is it conceivable that members of the Faculty, who are legally bound by the conditions on which they receive their stock...
...moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations and wire-pulling and compromise and friction as long as two or three can unite to overwhelm a third or fourth; it will be politics instead of athletics, treason and hatred instead of loyalty and good feeling...