Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charges of brutality are altogether exaggerated. That only is brutal which is entered into in a brutal spirit. In any contest of rough strength in which great ends are at stake, the players are easily roused into a state of great excitement, under which they treat not their opponents only, but themselves, without much thought of results, But it is always in most thorough good feeling. However fierce the game may have been, we can recall no instance of a player bearing personal animosity toward any opponent after the game had ended...
...freely acknowledge that foot ball is rough, but it is that very roughness that makes the sport so manly. Besides, the game appears much worse to spectators than it really is. The "throws" and "falls" are seldom serious, and we may say that permanent injury is as rare as in any other form of exercise. In the Yale game, on which the Athletic Committee seem to have come to their decision, no one of the players was in the least hurt, and no one was obliged to leave the field. In English schools, the students are obliged to play foot...
...goal posts by one side, or carried by the other away from that dangerous vicinity back into the enemy's country. This is the roughest part of the Eton game, and is sometimes, no doubt, where the match is a keen one, as for the House Cup, very rough. While the game is confined to boys, however, no very great harm is likely to ensue, and, as a rule, the Eton game may, we think, be said to be less prolific of serious accident than any other; certainly far less so than the Rugbeian indiscriminate pulling and hauling and kicking...
...Tufts eleven were very much inferior in weight to our team, but their work was very fair, and their tackling was really good. Our eleven must drop on the ball more fearlessly, and must display more headwork in their play. For so unimportant a game, the play was unusually rough on both sides. Altogether too much time was wasted on either side by orations for the benefit of the referee...
...greater good he will derive from it. Foot ball and base ball require exertion of both body and mind. A successful player in either game must have a good physique and a cool head. Foot ball, to be sure, as generally played today, is conceded to be too rough and dangerous, but even foot ball helps to train a man in physical and mental alertness. Base ball, being attended with less danger, and being doubtless a more scientific game, is still more beneficial. The same general truth applies in a greater or less degree to rowing lacrosse, cricket, and tennis...