Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team defeated Tufts last night in the Hemenway Gymnasium by the score of 20 to 11. The game was exceptionally fast, but was inclined to be rough, especially towards the end, when considerable tripping was indulged in by both teams. In the absence of Fish Browne was shifted to centre and S. Brown took the latter's position at left guard. The University team showed much improvement in its style of play over the earlier games and maintained a safe lead after the first few minutes of play. The defensive work was good and the passing and shooting...
...game was much closer than the score would indicate and until the last few minutes neither side had a comfortable lead. There was considerable rough play, both teams being penalized several times. Pell and Rumsey played well for Harvard, and Peacock and Read for Princeton. Newhall was unable to play because of sickness...
...University basketball team defeated Princeton Saturday night by the score of 16 to 13 in a rough and poorly played game. For Harvard, an encouraging feature of the game was the work of Fish at centre. Although this was his first game, he materially aided the team by his excellent defensive work, and gives promise of becoming a very strong player...
...work of the Freshmen last night was very poor, the practice being characterized by rough individual playing. The progress of the team is retarded by lack of material, and by the failure of the men to report regularly for practice...
...them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write caricature, merely ex-officio...