Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...although our eleven showed no symptoms of fright, and presented a strong rush line, yet they certainly did not show fight, and did their blocking with their arms and not with their fists. In fact, the game was, with one exception, perfectly gentlemanly and played in the proper spirit by both elevens; and we are glad to say that the Yale freshmen set a most excellent example to their 'Varsity eleven, which, it is hoped, they will in the future have the good sense to follow...
...contemptible sample of Yale spirit the following item from Tuesday's Yale News is significant: "Winton, the Princeton referee of Saturday's game, hopes to see his kindness to Harvard reciprocated by the referee from Harvard on the Polo Grounds...
...they would soon have been led to have some respect for the proprieties of the game. And if hereafter this rule be strictly enforced, the ungentlemanly and unmanly exhibitions, such as were witnessed last Saturday, could be effectually put an end to. Otherwise. Yale will probably show the same spirit next year. She seems now to be unable to appreciate what a spectacle her players made last week, for, if she did appreciate it, she would have already shown it by apologizing through her press. The fact is her papers seem to uphold their team's conduct, which naturally leads...
...spirit and aims of our Vassar contemporary are high and altogether worthy. If the rest of the college world will but join in the scheme with as sincere and earnest a purpose as is exhibited by our sisters at Vassar, its outcome and uses would no longer remain uncertain...
...rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment, or, in other words, they could not make two fouls without being disqualified. Some such method must be adopted. We can no longer meet Yale's brutal behavior in the mild, courteous spirit which we have hitherto shown. Neither do we wish to see fulfilled the prophesy of the Yale man, who said after the game Saturday, "You call our playing a mucker game, but you will have to come to it if you ever expect to beat us." But at all events...