Word: snap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...energetic. But all these accessory attributes to a good foot-ball team are as nothing when compared to the one quality which has always been distinguished by its absence from our teams - skill. Our men play a good game after their own light; - that is, they let centre snap the ball to the quarter-back, and quarter-back throw it to a half-back, and then he puts his head down and rushes blindly into the crowd and - "Down! How much did we lose that time? Ten yards? Well, try it again." There is no use denying that...
...rigging, with one or two slight changes, is substantially the same as last season. The crew tried it on Thursday for the first time, and Captain Cowles expressed himself as well pleased with the boat, which is in every respect satisfactory. The crew is now rowing with the snap and vigor which characterized the victorious eight of '84, and under the watchful eye of Bob Cook the men are rapidly overcoming the defects which seriously marred their work earlier in the season. They will row a little in the new boat every day in order to become thoroughly accustomed...
...seats sold to students should be sold all in one part of the field, that those who wish to cheer may have an opportunity to do so. Some one in authority ought to take charge of this matter and let the cheering hereafter be slow, uniform, and conducted with snap and decision...
Saturday the H. A. A. held its most successful out-door meeting for years. The events were well contested and the games passed off with snap and vigor. Two inter-collegiate records were broken. Chamberlain threw the hammer more than a foot further than the previous record, and Wright and Bemis both walked the mile in better than record time. Fast time was also made in the mile run. Altogether, the prospect for the Mott Haven team was never so good. In all probability, Harvard can win in New York the same events as last year, and ought also...
...indulge in such little pleasantries as guying each other about errors. The sooner they drop this style of play the better for the class and for the men themselves. They fail to play together, and a couple of hits by their opponents totally demoralize the team. They play without snap and as if nothing depended on their improvement. They strike at a ball, with one or two exceptions, with out any life, and if they make a hit, it is generally by chance. '89 must stop fooling at once and make a decided brace if they wish to make...