Word: partizanship
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...which he attacked the abnormal growth and degeneracy of college athletics, and it is contended at Harvard that a more curious commentary on his speech could not have been found than an impartial and full description of that game. Dr. Crosby protests against the injurious training, the intense partizanship, the large expenditures and the encouragement given to betting and other rowdy accompaniments of professional athletics. The truest accounts of the Yale game, it is asserted, show it to have been a disgraceful exhibition of brutality and cheating. It is declared that the referee seemed powerless to see or check...
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