Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is nothing in the game of football itself to offend any but the most sensitive persons. The rough handling to which those who play expose themselves, is not too extreme for strong men engaged in manly sport; and for the weak the game was never intended. But the violence of the game offers peculiar opportunities for abuse to those who seek them. There is much dirty play which can be done in defiance of any rules, however stringent. Such play can only be discouraged by absolute intolerance on the part of players and spectators alike. In the intensity...
...have seen games at Springfield and have made it my business to inquire about rough play. The very men who are most impressed by these evil manifestations are those who know most about it and want to keep athletics on a high plane...
...will of Francis Calley Gray, of the class of 1809. Mr. Gray had gathered the engravings in the course of his extended travels abroad, and had taken great pains to have them all of the highest quality. The result was a most valuable collection, numbering in the rough seven or eight thousand, and so selected as admirably to illustrate the history of engraving and printing from the time of the old masters. The Randall collection, while almost four times as large, was selected with less discriminating care, and is of far less artistic value. Both collections, from the large number...
...YORK, Dec. 16. - Upon the close of the football season, the Yale Football Association, in view of the charges of rough playing made against Captain Hinkey of the Yale football eleven, requested a committee composed of Professor E. L. Richards, Walter Camp, Henry E. Howland, George A. Adee, Howard Knapp, and Gene L. Richards, Jr., and others, men of recognized experience in football matters, to investigate the charges. These gentlemen found that all of the charges of roughness in the Springfield game have centered in the alleged wilful injury of Wrightington by Captain Hinkey. The officials of the game mentioned...
...Because a game is rough and has not as yet been regulated in a proper measure, are we as Americans going to throw over the entire sport? Are we going to confess that we are unable to take advantage of its strong, healthy points, and simply say it is too rough a game for boys to play? * * * Let us rather make a point of seeing that they learn to play fairly; that they learn to govern their brute instincts, that only those who are able to do this are permitted to indulge in rough play...