Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fact that the Freshman team has been over-rated. Stillman is a fine punter, and a useful rusher, but is the only man on the eleven above the average. The line is weak, as was proved by the successful attacks made upon it by the Sophomores, and plays a spiritless game. On the offense, the lack of team play was apparent, and accounts for the failure of the eleven to gain ground by rushing...
...halves were played yesterday, with many changes in the line-up of both first and second elevens. The playing was spiritless at times, but a great improvement was noticeable in the interference. Burnett, who played centre on the second, was very active in getting into the plays, and though his tackling was poor, he frequently found the runner...
...playing of the forwards, however, was not as aggressive as that of the backs. All the line men were behind the backs in starting, and the spiritless playing of Swain and Eaton was, to say the least, discouraging. Ristine and Campbell, the new ends, lack experience alone to be first-class players, and the centre of the line was strong on the defense...
...trip down unsettled some of the men. But, after all, one who thinks the matter over is forced to conclude that the team as a whole was palpably overtrained. Not a single man equalled his performance of a week before against Pennsylvania, and all the men seemed spiritless and dead. Indeed, after the amount of work they have had, little more could be expected of them. After a long season of winter training with frequent indoor meetings, the class games and the 'Varsity games were run in April; then after a rest of less than a week during the vacation...
...convincing force of his arguments, and I do not mean to intimate either agreement or disagreement with his main position. The thing now chiefly to be noticed is his assumption that any criticism of the position taken by the government is disloyal,- "a discredit to Harvard College," "a spiritless submission to English demands," "The stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statesmanship which is clamored for at this moment by men who put monetary gain before national honor...