Word: sport
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee seems to be of the opinion that football ought to be prohibited at all events, as being the most dangerous and brutalizing of all sports. It is true that men are occasionally injured seriously on the football field; but for that reason are we to cultivate effeminate dispositions and weak bodies? We hold that the game of football is a manly, invigorating, and ennobling sport. It teaches self-control, coolness at critical moments, quickness of motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made...
...reported that Yale is considering the advisability of importing a professional cricketer from England to train her team for next spring. If this be the case, there must be up at New Haven more enthusiam for this sport, better material and stronger financial backing than we have been led to suppose from Yale's attitude in declining the cricket overtures of Harvard some weeks ago. We are looking for further developments with considerable interest.- Pennsylvanian...
...subject are these: they object to our playing with professionals, as is well known, on the ground that they fear "contamination" and a "degradation of college spirit of honor and fair play." It is also well known that it is the desire of many of the faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty to induce them to abolish professional practice at that...
...other teams which form parts of inter-collegiate associations, and a decided innovation in this respect will occur when the cricket eleven meets the University of Pennsylvania on Holmes Field next June. If one or two more colleges could be induced to devote some attention to this invigorating sport, there is no reason why a championship series could not be begun-one which would attract the universal interest and support of the college. Cricket has obtained such a firm footing here that Harvard's chances of success ought certainly to be of the best...
...raised the standard of our athletics in the least. This action of the faculty seems to aim particularly at base-ball. It has been said that formerly base-ball was played by every one and afforded excellent exercise for all the students alike; but professionalism has turned the old sport into a business which occupies more thought and more time than the student can afford. Perhaps this may be so, but if we are to play ball at all, how much less time, how much less thought would be necessary and how much better able shoudl we be to compete...