Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hearty appreciation of his staunch and able argument for a universal recognition of the game. Probably no one person has been so convinced of the injustice of many leading newspapers in this country in perverting the real nature of the game besides denouncing it as being too brutal and rough, as Professor Johnson. Newspapers have so utterly misrepresented the game as to make it appear to the general public a diminutive war, into which the contesting sides go with the avowed intention of maiming bodies, dislocating joints and other similar features such as characterize a modern rough-and-tumble prize...
...seems but natural that Harvard men should consider a rush or a rough-and-tumble foot-ball game a relic of barbarism, but it is inexplicable how men who have been in Cambridge a year can consider a public drinking bout as more desirous, more manly than these. Perhaps we see here again the indifference which has destroyed our prestige in athletic sports...
...start was ridiculously unfair. The Crescents started long before the word-which was given, by the way, while a number of the 'Varsity eight were taking off their jerseys. The water was very rough-all the crews splashing badly. At the Crescent boat-house, Harvard was a length ahead, which it increased to three lengths at the finish. For the first half mile or so, Harvard rowed about thirty five strokes to the minute, but during the latter part of the race Storrow slowed down to thirty or thirty-one. The Bradfords and Crescents seemed to vie with each other...
Later in the evening the roughs ran the bon-fire and threatened to rush the students off Jarvis Field. If the reign of the Cambridge roughs has begun, I congratulate myself that this is my last year at college. One recalls with regret the days when the policing of the yard was under the supervision of the class of '85, when although the mucker was not excluded from the yard, rough element was suppressed and kept quiet...
...whole the crew are fairly well together, but are very rough in their blade work. Especial care must be taken not to rush forward on the recover; not to hang and to make the stroke smooth and long...