Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there is so much criticism of the nine floating about I think it is only fair that the other side be looked at. The college should keep in view that nine men can not win a Yale game; but nine hundred and nine can. If the nine plays a spiritless game, as has been alleged, it doesn't make matters better to sit up in your room and smoke and growl. If the college shows spirit the nine can't help but do so. One would think the whole college was trying for the glee club, the way men save...
...follow its usual rule yesterday of playing a good game after a bad one. Such work as that of yesterday will never win a Yale game. A strong wind was blowing across the field all the time, but this only palliates, and does not excuse, the wretchedly weak and spiritless play of the whole team. With two singles, one in the third and one in the fifth, the visitors made five runs. Such a record speaks for itself. The game opened miserably, with two errors by Howe, which, together with a base on balls, gave the visitors...
...practice of the first and second elevens yesterday afternoon was not very encouraging, During the last few minutes, to be sure, the first eleven seemed to wake up and settle down to real work, but during the greater part of the time the play was slow and spiritless. There was a great deal of fumbling and some very poor tackling. Harding played a good game for the second eleven at quarterback; he did the only really effective tackling of the whole game. Sherwin also played well; he made the prettiest rush of the afternoon, getting past...
...every freshman class there are scores of men who try for their class crew in the fall, and, failing to get on, never see anything more of rowing than some painful, spiritless drudgery in an eight oared barge or on the rowing weights. Now out of all these men there are few who, if introduced to shell rowing or racing of any kind, would not be enchanted with it, and many during their whole college course would engage in rowing as others do in tennis. There has not been room, heretofore, in the boat-house for more boats than those...