Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slightly onto Yale ground. Hurd and Finney did well and Peabody exchanged long kicks with Terry. Soon Yale was again forcing and Kimball missed a kick on his own end. This gave Yale much ground. Kimball was tipped over after making a kick and partially stunned, but with great pluck continued to play throughout the game. Harvard had it "down" within the ten yard line, when Flanders broke through and securing the ball as it was being passed to the rear made a touchdown. Richards kicked a second goal...
...over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell (who has indeed branded the game as "fit only for savages")-the spectacle might also have a ludicrous side. He might feel inclined to exclaim with the poet...
Saturday's game teaches us this about our Eleven. The men are full of pluck; they played with a determination and spirit that won them the commendation of the whole college. But they do not know the science of the game. The fact is simple, plain and palpable. We do not know how to play foot ball at Harvard. The team was equal physically almost man for man to the Princeton eleven. Our men were in as good training. They rushed harder, Yet, upon the whole, Princeton played all around us. Every man on the Eleven did far better than...
...Watson the premier lady player. Indeed, if anything, she is even a greater champion than the gentleman named, for she has never been defeated, and this, too, despite the fact that, unlike him, she does not hold her championship and play but one match a year, for, with commendable pluck and good nature, she allows all a chance of lowering her colors. She has competed in four open competitions this year, having met and defeated all the best players, among whom we may mention her sister, Miss Watson, Miss May Langrishe, Miss B. Langrishe, Miss Cole, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Watts...
PLUCK.Prof. Stillman argues from a study of the instantaneous photographs, taken by Mr. Murybridge, that the speed in animals and in men depends on conformation of muscular tissue and "much also on the nervous energy or will transmitted to the muscles, technically known as courage or pluck...