Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expectations of a well played and closely contested game with Pennsylvania were fully realized and the one sided score does not show how hard Harvard had to work to win. Pennsylvania played a hard and tricky game and was only kept from scoring by the sharpest work. Several times the ball was carried the length of the field by short, quick rushes, which the Harvard rush line seemed unable to check. The other weak points in Harvard's play were poor passing, fumbling by the halfbacks, and inability of the rush line to hold their opponents long enough to give...
...fullest extent on the foot-ball field. In spite of this fact, she has this season sent out a team that put Yale, who in the last six years had lost but a single game and that by a score of six to five, to her very sharpest effort to retain her supremacy. And it may be assumed that Harvard has come back to the foot-ball grounds to stay, and that means an even contest, with victory to the team that has been best trained and best coached. In other branches of athletics the two universities have almost held...
...main well contested and scientific, although several of the bouts degenerated into the regions of slugging. Gaines won the first bout, feather-weight, in very good style, using his left hand to especial advantage. The second bout between E. Grew, H., '89, and J. D. Williams, was the sharpest and most one sided contest of the day. Grew was beaten in the first, although he stood up for the second and third rounds. In the second round the made a brace which availed him nothing. He was knocked out in the third, and Williams was given the bout. Williams...
...success to one cause or another, and making vigorous complaints about playing in a "brick-yard," the somewhat harsh tile they gave to the Andover foot ball field. From this it will be seen that Eighty-Eight has no easy task before her, and that, while only the sharpest of work can win a victory for the class, yet that victory will be one to remember with pride, if it be attained. A word now to the freshmen. No surer way to help your team to success can be found than the support afforded by the presence of a large...
...admitted to the Roxbury Latin School to pursue his studies preparatory to his admission to college, where, by his superb scholarship, his modest and considerate deportment, and his thorough goodness of heart, he won the esteem and affection of his teachers and fellow-students; his sharpest rivals, although at last outstripped by him, becoming his warmest friends...