Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...merely provisional member of the University until he has done work to warrant his stay, but, efficient as this might be in many cases, would it not after all grow to be looked upon as but another entrance requirement, which, when successfully passed, would lead to the same reaction...
After the reaction of the Yale game, the spirit of the practice was admirable. Every man seemed to be making an extra effort and the result was that the team showed some of the hardest and fiercest football that has been seen on the field this season. Plenty of coaches were out, prominent among whom was B. G. Waters '94. Through his energetic, lively directions the men got into the plays in rare form and forced the second eleven at almost every point...
...score of 18-0, and in this game exhibited the best football that they had so far been capable of. A fault still conspicuously apparent, as in the other games, was the uncertain starting of the backs. The interference showed new strength and compactness. Then came the reaction of the Newtowne game. Harvard won, 22-0, yet there was such a deplorable falling off in their form that the game was worth little as furnishing any advantageous results...
...encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they are defeated by a team which is comparatively underrated...
...simply on Harvard's superior strength and were far from being the result of fast, aggressive playing. Judging from the spirit prevalent throughout the game, the men were evidently not playing their best, nor trying to, and taken after the excellent showing of last week against Brown, such a reaction is at least unwarrantable. Throughout the game, there was a most conspicuous jumble of plays. The line men failed to open up holes at the right time, the ball was fumbled, the backs were nearly always off their feet and the interference was so weak that end plays were broken...