Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...increases his resources and thus renders him doubly effective. Moreover the danger of any demoralizing effect of sudden changes in the play is minimized. The effect of such a system upon the game itself is undoubtedly to strengthen and render it more scientific. As a matter of fact, the rough nature of the game has rather withdrawn attention from the fineness of its details and the perfection to which preconcerted manoeuvres can be carried. We are confident that our success is attributable largely to the superiority of our team in these respects...
...athletics could be done away with. He says that the Harvard athletic committee did not intend from the first to have the game with Yale given up, but only officially to show that they discountenanced the game as then played, The game that Harvard played with Princeton was so rough as to disgust some of the alumni who subsequently brought so much pressure to bear upon the committee that they were obliged to publish their letter. He positively asserted that Yale was not aimed at in the least but rather their own team. He says moreover that their main objection...
...amended seem to cove the points they bring up, much more satisfactorily than the old ones. A most judicious change has also been made in having the games for the future refereed by alumni, for it is her that a great dell of the trouble about the "rough game" is to be found. This change will not only do await with any leniency in executing the rules, such as a foot-ball player in sympathy with the "rough game" might naturally feel, but will also put the control of the games into the hands of certain ones, who while interested...
...With one or two exceptions, the playing was not too rough, but several times the referee had to take out time while some Harvard player was rubbed back into playing condition." [News...
...Saturday was just the thing to suit the majority of the spectators. It was a regular series of wrestling matches and fist fights, interspersed at times with fine play of foot-ball. We can reiterate the remark of a spectator who stood by us, which was : "That's awful rough work, rougher than I've ever seen, but if it suits them it certainly does me." The excitement ran very high among the spectators, and the college boys fairly hugged each other with joy as their favorite team would make a good play. Had the referee done his duty...