Word: roughest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game, as a whole, was the roughest and liveliest one seen on Jarvis this year. '89 played hard, and far better than a year ago, Perry, Griffing, Woodbury and Morgan being positively brilliant. The freshmen showed a deplorable lack of sand and science; Crane and Hunnewell were the only ones who did any playing at all, and Tyson and Higginson the only ones who tackled for anything but cap-tassels. At least three men in the rush-line are of not the least use whatever...
...Hull, '83, for several years captain of the Yale foot-ball team and crew, has just been elected Mayor of Mandau, Dakota, the roughest frontier town in the Territory...
University of Pennsylvania defeated Stevens Institute on Saturday by a score of 22 to 9. The game was the roughest ever played in New York...
...carried across. In opponent's goal, this entitles to a try at goal; in player's own goal to a kick out." By the old rules the ball had to be actually touched down by a player before he could claim the ball as his. This always occasioned the roughest of play. Sometimes a player would seize the ball and then lay on his back, holding fast the ball all the time, in order to prevent his opponents from securing a touchdown. Men were often severely injured in this...
...roughest game of the season was undoubtedly the Univ. of Pennsylvania-Wesleyan game on last Thursday morning. The Athletic Committee attended both this game and the Yale-Princeton game...