Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does, sent a team into the field with a dogged determination to win, and as always they played a magnificent game of foot-ball. Harvard used her experience of last year and made a great improvement, but the men had not learned the need of desperate work at a pinch that must be learned in order to win in a game where so many are engaged and the teams are so equal. The Harvard team in playing with only two men back of the rush line, when the other side had the ball, made a departure in the game that...
...circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call contemptible and dishonest, to his face...
...Just a pinch of persimism...
...Yale, knowing they had won the championship without showing a superiority over at least two teams, backed squarely out of the game. They claimed that they could not hold their nine together, but the fact that they played a game with a professional nine afterward, shows where the pinch came. This short account of the record will serve to show Harvard's superiority in base-ball...