Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Episode of the Yale-Wesleyan freshman game: "A Yale man had a badlooking eye, but later on, when unlawfully tackled, focussed his unimpaired member on a Wesleyan man sufficiently accurately to reach him twice straight from the shoulder."-[Spirit of the Times...
Saturday's game teaches us this about our Eleven. The men are full of pluck; they played with a determination and spirit that won them the commendation of the whole college. But they do not know the science of the game. The fact is simple, plain and palpable. We do not know how to play foot ball at Harvard. The team was equal physically almost man for man to the Princeton eleven. Our men were in as good training. They rushed harder, Yet, upon the whole, Princeton played all around us. Every man on the Eleven did far better than...
...surbordination among the players, willingness to do as they are told, to little matters that seem to them unimportant, to strive for "good form" in foot ball as if they were striving for the "good form" in the Harvard stroke. Head work, public sentiment, and a progressive, learning spirit. We have got to make more of a business of foot ball, if we are to keep pace with these other colleges...
...Yocum on last year's University crew. Keith is on the eleven and will probaby not row until after Christmas. Borland, '86, of last year's crew is now at college, but unfortunately will not be able to row again. Harrington is a new man and shows a commendable spirit in learning to row in his senior year. He is a very powerful man and ought to make an effective oarsman...
...CRIMSON was in a much better position than our correspondent to judge of the game and its results, being represented on the practice field, and at the particular match in question and aided by data concerning the games of freshmen in the past. We wrote not from any spirit of jealousy, for all the upper classes wish well to the freshmen and look upon their efforts with an interest which almost equals their own. Nor was it a spirit of useless criticism which prompted our editorial but a desire to point out in a clear and forcible manner where their...