Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hurd now secured the ball and made a beautiful rush through his opponents lines and secured a touchdown directly behind the goal posts. Holden failed to score a goal. A few minutes after Holden by pretty dodging obtained the fourth touchdown and kicked the goal. Quincy now played a sharper game and took advantage of the muffing which the Harvard men indulged in. Just before the close of the first half a safety, and a touchdown by Fargo scored six more points for Harvard. Score, Harvard 32, Quincy...
...contributed to this end which have since then been happily overcome. The base running, although by no means perfect, has improved greatly, as has also the fielding and batting. With the remembrance of the Princeton-Harvard game fresh in our minds, we can look forward with confidence to a sharper and more successful play on the part of the crimson in the first championship game with Yale than was shown in the first exhibition game with the same club...
...success should spare as much time as possible to go out on Jarvis and watch their classmates at work. Encouragement is what is wanted, and it can be given in no better way than by watching the nine practice. Each player is more likely to do better and play sharper if he knows that he is watched by the critical eyes of a number of spectators. The upper-class men will do their share, no doubt, but the chief interest must naturally be taken by the freshman class itself...
...fair-minded person, it must be evident that framing rules against unfair playing does not necessarily show the spirit of roughs and sharpers in the elevens. There was never a set of rules yet in any athletic sport which did not prohibit unfair play, because it is always possible that some "rough" or "sharper" may make unfair plays. One might as well, following their line of thought, give up the Christian religion because of the ten commandments; or like St. Simon Shylites, withdraw from the society of mankind and sit on the top of a pillar because of our criminal...
...filled their positions satisfactorily. Bradford ran finely, and Baldwin used the body-check effectively. As a whole the team failed to catch and pass as well as we hoped, and the defence fielders did not cover their men closely. On the other hand our team played a harder and sharper game than ever before, and we look to see them do good work for the Oelrichs cup. Tomorrow we shall give a more particular account of the faults and merits of the players, collectively and individually, in the hope that they may greatly improve by next Saturday...