Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other colleges exactly as she treats her own scrub teams, and after the manner that she is willing that she should be treated in return. Whether the Yale men treat each other and expect to be treated in return as gentlemen, or not, is a question upon which opinions seem to differ. Harvard thinks not, decidedly, but, on the other hand, believes that there are certain relations between gentlemen which should never be forgotten, even on the foot-ball field. Columbia has hitherto taken Harvard's side of the question, and we hope she will still continue...
...rules adopted at the last foot-ball convention in regard to the block game seem likely to answer their purpose exactly. It was plain during the last season's contests that victories would likely be very much the result of chance unless the safety touch was made to enter into the final score. And it naturally followed that this would make the best basis from which to reckon higher scores. A touchdown now equals two, a goal from the field five, and a goal from a touchdown six safeties. No doubt can be entertained concerning the relation between goals from...
...hoped that the gentlemen who hold this important position in next fall's games will be found always fair and strictly impartial. It must seem strange to gentlemen unacquainted with the game that it should be necessary to forbid, by the rules, a player's choking or kicking another, or tackling and jumping on an opponent when he does not have the ball and is not in any way likely to have it; but experience has shown that personal safety demands protection by rule from such ungentlemanly proceedings. The time is gradually approaching when gentlemanly and legitimate play alone will...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: An editorial in the Yale Record of last week contains some assertions about the much-discussed Yale-Harvard foot-ball game, so surprising and so truly characteristic of their source, that it seems a pity not to bring them into general notice. It says: "Every one who saw the game knows how little ground there is for their reiterated charges of roughness, ungentlemanliness, to say nothing of stronger expressions which they have found convenient to use." Our Yale friend seems to have lost sight of an important fact, viz: that Harvard College represented not more than...
...front. Each year we see the championship snatched from us at the last moment owing to some unsteadiness arising from want of effectual practice, and from the absence of a spirit of confidence which can be acquired only by continua and spirited contests. Oftentimes our men do not seem to play to win, and become easily rattled. The cause is readily found in the spiritless practice and simple batting upon the field...