Word: result
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Speculation as to the-result of the big game, based on previous scores, are notoriously unreliable. The games which Harvard and Yale have played this year are given below largely as matter of record...
...opposing sides differ in weight by less than a pound, but at this point Yale has the advantage of greater experience. Hickok, Stillman and McCrea are all veterans, while on the Harvard side the two Shaws have never before been in a big game. What the result will be can not be foreseen...
With regard to the effect which the result is likely have upon the future of athletics in the University, the game today is to Harvard the most important one she has ever played. For the past five years, although the games have been remarkably close and intensely exciting, Harvard has been successful but once. The effect of that victory was remarkable. Interest in the game such as had never before been known at Harvard was awakened, and our other teams completed the year with an unbroken record of victories. But it is next to impossible for any enthusiasm to live...
...deal. It will leave us with the opportunity to put ourselves in a position to lay undisputed title to the championship; it will justify the continuance of a system of training which in many respects has proved eminently desirable. Moreover, two outside colleges, - Pennsylvania and Princeton, - are awaiting the result with an interest which we have reason to believe is scarcely less intense than...
...time when every player is called to fight with an indescribable "gone" feeling. Any one who knows anything of human nature, let alone athletics, knows that it is at this moment that whip and spur are needed. A stirring cheer may change the result of the game. We honestly believe that half-hearted support of athletic teams on the field may do quite as much as defeats toward giving the Harvard man the reputation of being a quitter...