Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those of the Boston papers concerning a certain club of students in this University who have taken upon themselves the title of "Harvard University Ice Polo Team." Is not this a bold and unwarranted assumption? That five men should band together in what is essentially nothing more than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters - a proceeding which I feel sure would arouse a protest from the whole...
...might be said that a protest against the name would have come in better grace before, rather than after the defeat by Brown. We do not think so. The University at large cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears...
...wish through your columns to correct a statement which has lately appeared. No such organization as the Harvard University Ice Polo Team exists. The games with Cambridge Latin have been scrub games and most of the players participating have been non-Harvard men. Harvard men object to having their names used in connection with mythical organizations...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 27. - The Yale football eleven this afternoon lined up for practice on the 'varsity field, but did not oppose the scrub team as the coaches have changed their policy and will not work the candidates as rigorously as they declared after the Harvard game that they would. The team took about an hour's drill in going through the signals. The surprise of the day was that Butterworth was out and in uniform. He resumed his old position as fullback and showed that he was in as good form as ever. The injury...
...Harvard football season virtually began in the spring, when for a few weeks Captain Emmons put to work the football aspirants not engaged in other branches of athletics. From those who made the best showing in the final scrub game, also from the other football players in college, and the best men on interscholastic teams, some 25 or 30 had two weeks of light training at Newcastle in July. For another two weeks in August, several of the quarterbacks and halfbacks were the guests of Emmons at Falmouth and played football daily. On September 17 the whole squad was asked...