Word: pluckings
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...been one man on the Yale team that has put to rout the Harvard players whenever he approached; and when in a tussle two men are down, the cowards are ready enough to jump on the pile. If irregularities occur, I believe they are due to want of pluck, and that that want is encouraged by the weak cry of brutality when any one gets hurt. I will go further and say that I have not unfrequently examined foot ball players during the playing season, and found their bodies bruised and scarred, and I have honored them for the courage...
...since the institution of the Annex, the tendency of our learned Professors has been toward the "more tender" sports, notably tennis (which two play, with rests and things). At the same time their policy has been to discourage those games which develop and exercise the manly powers, strength, endurance, pluck and skill. The natural inference is, that the influence of these maidens upon the faculty is demoralizing, effeminating and mollifying (I use the word in its first meaning) in the extreme. Therefore Messrs. Editors, despite a chivalric regard for the gentler sex in general, in this case solicitude...
...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...